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The Trial Brief, Edson R. Sunderland

Book Chapters

From the chapter Introduction: "The object of the preceding chapters is to show the brief maker where to find the material for his brief, how to find it, and how to select out of the mass of material found that which will be suitable for his use.... The purpose of this lesson is to outline a course of investigation suitable to the preparation of a case for trial, and to suggest methods of making the material collected during the search for authorities readily available." [p.353]

The Right To Divert Water To Non-Riparian Land, Ralph W. Aigler

Articles

Though at one time in England there may have been some doubt as to the character of a riparian owner's rights in the waters of the stream, it must be considered as definitely settled by a series of cases that the doctrine of reasonable use by all the proprietors on the stream is the rule of the common law, and that the matter of priority of use or appropriation is, under that system, immaterial, unless, of course, a question of prescriptive right is involved. Wright v. Howard, 1 Sim. & S. 190; Mason v. Hill, 3 B. & Ad. 304, …

Notes On Current And Recent Events

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Criminal In The Air, Denys P. Myers

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Some Impressions Of Italian Prisons, Gino C. Speranza

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Notes On Current And Recent Events

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Teaching Of Practice And Procedure In Law Schools, Edson R. Sunderland

Michigan Law Review

Criticism of the law, the courts, and the legal profession is one of the popular customs of the day. So constantly and so insistently are we told of the shortcomings of the Bench and Bar that it is hard to hold one's footing against the sweep of the current. One might well suppose from all the clamor that the ancient respectability of the law had suddenly been discovered to be a monstrous pretense, a fraud on the innocence and trustfulness of the people, a cloak for injustice and a mask for oppression.

Recent Decisions

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.

Constitutionality Of Teachers' Pensions Legislation Ii: The Validity Of The Proposed Michigan Law, Horace L. Wilgus

Michigan Law Review

In the preceding paper, we considered pension legislation in general -- its extent, forms, purpose, and relation to the taxing power of the state and nation. It is proposed in this paper to discuss in detail the provisions of the proposed Michigan teachers' pension law in the light of the general principles, set forth in the former paper, with reference to specific constitutional provisions, and the decisions of the courts upon-the validity of pensions for firemen and policemen which are similar in many respects to teachers' pension systems, together with such decisions as have been made concerning the constitutionality of …

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.

University Of Michigan Department Of Law Annual Announcement 1913 - 1914 And Catalogue Of Students 1912-1913, University Of Michigan Law School

Law School Announcement and Bulletins

Department of Law; Library; Directions to Candidates for Admission; Requirements for Admission; Admission as Candidate for a Degree; Combined Course in Collegiate and Law Studies; Admission of Special Students; Admission to Advanced Standing; Class Rating; Degrees; Courses of Instruction; Special Courses; Summer Session; The Practice Court; Conveyancing; Oratory; Oratorical Associations; Testimonials and Medals; Literary Societies; Work in the Department of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Text-Books and Books of Reference; Fees and Expenses; Michigan Law Review; Summer Session; Registration; Requirements for Admission; Fees; Credit; Advanced Standing; Courses of Study; Courses of Free Lectures; Graduates of 1912; Students; Summary of Students;

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

Bankruptcy - Jurisdiction of the District Court Exclusive Within Its District - A trustee in bankruptcy appointed, by the District 'Court for the District of Illinois filed a petition in the District Court for the Western District of Michigan for a summary order to require the respondent to surrender to the trustee certain moneys claimed as the property of the bankrupt. The respondent was a resident of the Eastern District of Michigan, and denied the jurisdiction of the court to issue an order to be enforced in another district. Held that the jurisdiction of the District Courts, in all bankruptcy …

Ordinances, Orders-In-Council, Rules, Regulations And Proclamations,1913, Saint Vincent

Saint Vincent

J. Hayes Sadler, Governor;

G. Gideon Murray, Administrator;

Edward Drayton, Acting Governor

The Teaching Of Practice And Procedure In Law Schools, Edson R. Sunderland

Articles

Procedure is merely the means of co-ordinating effort, of harmonizing differences, of offering every one equality of opportunity in offense and defense before the law. Without it there would be confusion, favoritism, and injustice. If the subject were viewed in this fundamental way, and were studied conscientiously as an incident and aid to the development and determination of the merits of controversies, the criticisms now so fiercely directed against it would largely disappear. In its use it is indispensable, in its abuse only does it cause trouble. A professional conscience to curb that abuse, and professional learning and skill to …

Indeterminate Sentence And Release On Parole, Edwin M. Abbott

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Control Of Crime In India, Charles Richmond Henderson

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

The History Of A Title: A Conveyancer's Romance, Uriel R. Crocker

Kentucky Law Journal

First printed in the American Law Review, October, 1875, and Subsequently Reprinted by the Massachusetts Insurance Co., 1885.

Legal Education, W. T. Lafferty

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

What Is The Law? Ii, Joseph W. Bingham

Michigan Law Review

I shall now discuss briefly the nature of the causal effects of precedents upon judicial decisions and the justifications for those effects. One frequently hears laymen scoffing at the respect which courts pay to precedents and sometimes displaying a lamentable ignorance both of the nature of the influence which precedents have on the law and of the reasons for the existence of that influence. The influence of past example on human action pervades all human conduct and endeavor at all times. That influence is fundamental. It occurs through instinctive as well as intelligent processes and sometimes runs to unreasonable extents. …

Bank Deposits And Collections, Ralph J. Baker

Michigan Law Review

Insolvency, no less than natural death, is a tragedy which comes into the midst of business transactions, fixing the claims of parties, and calling for the application of legal principles to determine the nature and extent of their rights. Perhaps no business relationship is more frequent than that of banker and customer or depositor. And while insolvency of banking institutions is happily less frequent than in the ordinary business, it is not so uncommon that questions therein are not often in the courts for adjudication. It would, therefore, be a natural deduction that the legal principles applicable should be comparatively …

The Liability Of A Principal For The Penal Or Criminal Acts Of His Agent, Floyd R. Meechem

Michigan Law Review

What Here Involved. In a previous article the question of the liability of a principal or master for the wilful or malicious acts of his servant or agent, was considered. It is proposed here to consider the liability of a principal or master for the penal or criminal acts of his agent or servant. This will involve two aspects: (a) The civil liability of the principal or master, and (b) His penal or criminal liability.

Note And Comment, Joseph J. Kennedy, Samuel H. Morris, Burke W. Shartel, George S. Burgess

Michigan Law Review

Attendance at the Law School; An Extreme Case in the Application of the Safety Appliance Act; Advisory Opinions; Refusal of Specific Performance Where Subsequent Unexpected Events Render it Inequitable; Is Vasectomy a Cruel Punishment

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Adverse Possession--Railroads--Effect of Change of Line; Bankruptcy--Extension of Time for Filing Petition for Discharge; Bankruptcy--Voidable Preferences--Proceeds of Fire Insurance Policy; Bills and Notes--Liability of Irregular Indorser--Questions for Jury; Bills and Notes--Negotiability--Law Governing; Boundaries--Street--Land Made by Change in Street; Commerce--Interstate Commerce on Route Between Two Points in Same State; Criminal Law--Dead Bodies--Proper Burial; Constitutional Law--Involuntary Servitude; Deeds--New Grantee in Habendum--Construction; Deeds--Parol Reservation of Growing Crops by Vendor of Land; Evidence--Admissibility of Statements of a prior Holder of Negotiable Paper Against Transferee; Evidence--Right to Introduce Secondary Evidence of Contents of a Document When the Original is Beyond Jurisdiction of the Court; Guardian …

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Animals--Abuse--Malice Toward the Owner; Assault and Battery--Apparent Ability; Bankruptcy--marshaling Assets of Partnership and of Constituent Firm; Banks and Banking--Checks--Fictitious Payee; Bills and Notes--Bona Fide Holder; Carrier--duty to Protect Passengers; Constitutional law--Division of Powers--Infringement on Executive; Constitutional law--Eminent Domain--Supersedure of Ordinance of 1787; Constitutional law--Special Legislation--Automobiles; Corporations--Issue of Stock--Corporation of Two States; Courts--Jurisdiction--Damage to Real Property Without the State--Negligence; Damage--Personal Injuries Contributing to Disease; Deeds--Assignment o fright of Entry Between Heirs; Deeds--Restrictive Covenant--"building" Defined; Equity--Infringement of Trade Marks--"Clean Hands"--Husband and Wife--Estate by Entirety--Conveyance of Husband's Interest; Judgment--Effect of the Transcript of a Justice's Judgement Filed in the District Court; Judgment--Estoppel--Homestead; Marriage--What …

College Of Law Commencement Program, 1912, University Of Kentucky

Graduation Programs

No abstract provided.

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Agency--Fiduciary Relation--Right of Principal to Agent's Acquisitions--Patents for Agent's Inventions; Bankruptcy--Insurance Policies as Assets; Carriers--Duty Toward Alighting Passenger; Commerce--Conflicting State and Federal Regulation; Constitutional law--Restrictive Labor Laws for Women; Contributory Negligence--Children; Conveyancing--Covenants--Construction of "Business" in Restrictive Covenant; corporations--Director's Meetings--Effect of Surprise, Trick, or Fraud in Securing a Quorum; Corporations--Eleemosynary--Liability of Educational Institution for Torts; Corporations--Fraudulent Organization--Corporation a Nullity; Criminal Law--Wife Abandonment--Proper Venue; Damages--Breach of Contract--Value of Unmatured Crops; Damages--Master and Servant--Wrongful Discharge of Servant; Dedication--requisites, Sufficiency and Acceptance; Deeds--Rule in Shelley's Case; Equity--Temporary Injunction--Function and Effect; Garnishment--Possession of Garnishee--Safety Deposit Box; Husband and Wife--Power of Wife to Dispose of Her …

Book Reviews, Edson R. Sunderland

Michigan Law Review

Nichols: Michigan Forms of Procedure at Law

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Adverse Possession--Prior Holding; Appeal and Error--Harmless Error--Admission of Evidence--Mortality Tables; Bankruptcy--Effect of Composition of Liability of Surety on Bankrupt's Note; Bank and Bank--Collections--Insolvency of Collecting Bank; Bills and Notes--instruments Constituting Negotiable Notes; Contracts--Arbitration Clause; Contracts--Indefiniteness of Promise; Contributory Negligence--Acts in Emergency; Corporations--Liability of Corporation in Action for Deceit; Estoppel--School Lands--Title of State; False Pretenses--Defenses--Illegality; Husband and Wife--Support of Self and infant Children--Action by Wife Against Husband; Intoxicating Liquors--Regulation--Prohibition--Police Power; Mortgages Upon Property of Constituent Companies Become a Lien Upon the Property of a Consolidated Company; Municipal Corporations--Liability for Injuries Resulting from Civic Beautification; Municipal Corporations--Partial Vacation of Streets--Title to Land …

University Of Michigan University Bulletin, New Series Vol. Xiii No 9, February 1912, Summer Session Department Of Law Eighteenth Annual Announcement, University Of Michigan Law School

Law School Announcement and Bulletins

Contents; Faculty of the Summer Session of the Department of Law; Department of Law Summer Session; Libraries; Registration; Requirements for Admission; Fees; Location, Expenses, Board, Etc.; Credit; Advanced Standing; Courses of Study; Schedule of Work for 1912; University of Michigan Summer Session, 1912; Literature, Science, and the Arts; Engineering; Medicine and Surgery; Pharmacy; Homeopathic Medical College; Fees; Students Enrolled Summer of 1911; Summary of Students.

Ordinances, 1912, Trinidad And Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago

George R. Le Hunte, Governor

S. W. Knaggs, Acting Governor