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Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review, Thomas E. Atkinson, John R. Rood, Haddon S. Kirk, Harry G. Gault, William L. Owen, Harry J. Connine

Michigan Law Review

The Appam Case - On March 6 last the Supreme Court handed down a unanimous decision in the appeals taken in the libel suits filed against the Appam and cargo in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, affirming the decree of. restitution entered by that court.

Enoch G. Hogate Suddenly Stricken

Enoch George Hogate (1906-1918; 1918-1924 Dean Emeritus)

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Enoch Hogate Stricken

Enoch George Hogate (1906-1918; 1918-1924 Dean Emeritus)

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The Ohio "Blue Sky" Cases, Clarence D. Laylin

Michigan Law Review

The ancient notion that private fraud lies beyond the domain of public law did not long survive the statements of it that have been quoted.' Our legislation, expressing always the changing moral standards of the people, has directed the sanctions of the criminal law, step by step, ever against new forms of overreaching and imposition. Numerous illustrations might be cited to show the growing repugnance of the public mind toward frauds and cheats, and the tendency to recognize them as offenses invoking the restraint of public action as well as the redress of private injuries.

Options And The Rule Against Perpetuities, John R. Rood

Articles

"The question to be discussed in this article is whether an option to buy property is void by reason of the fact that it may be exercised at a period more remote from the time of its creation than the law of the state permits contingent interest to vest."

The Disposition To Be Made Of Property The Subject Of A Power If The Power Is Not Exercised, John R. Rood

Articles

The object sought in this article is to collect and classify the cases in which the courts have passed on the question as to what shall be done with property over which a power of appointment has been given; when it finally turns out for some reason that the power has not been exercised. It is not the object to establish any particular thesis, but rather to ascertain how the adjudicated cases stand.

Administrative Settlement Of Industrial Disputes By Compulsory Investigation, L. Ward Bannister

Cornell Law Review

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Canadian Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, Howard S. Ross

Cornell Law Review

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Organization Of The Courts For The Better Administration Of Justice, William L. Ransom

Cornell Law Review

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Notes And Comment

Cornell Law Review

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Book Reviews

Cornell Law Review

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Michigan's Adoption Of Uniform State Legislation, George W. Bates

Michigan Law Review

The commissioners on Uniform State Laws have just filed their fourth Biennial Report to the Legislature of Michigan. This Conference is a body composed of representatives of each State, Territory and Federal possession, who meet in annual conference under a permanent organization commonly designated the Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. The twenty-sixth annual meeting was held in Chicago last August. The commissioners consist very largely of lawyers and judges of standing and experience and of law teachers from some of the principal law schools. There are usually three representatives from each State or Territory, appointed for terms of three to …

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Adverse Possession - Tacking - To a suit in ejectment, defendant pleaded, (z) the statute of limitations of seven years, claiming adverse possession for that length of time; (2) also twenty years' adverse possession as a basis for the presumption of a grant. The possession relied upon is partially that of defendant's predecessor, between whom and defendant there was no privity. Held, (I) the defense of the statute of limitations is without merit. Successive possessions cannot be tacked to make up the period of that statute unless connected by privity; (2) but no privity is necessary to raise the presumption …

Note And Comment, Edson R. Sunderland, Ralph W. Aigler, Wayland H. Sanford, William L. Owen, Eugene B. Houseman

Michigan Law Review

Safeguarding the Criminal Defendant - Every now and then a new attack is made somewhere in the United States upon the rule prohibiting comment before the jury upon the fact that the defendant in a criminal case has not testified as a witness in his own behalf. At the present time an effort of this kind is being made in the Michigan legislature, and the introduction of the bill drew quite a little storm of protest from the State press as a dangerous inroad upon our ancient guarantees of personal liberty and security. In fact, however, it directly touches nothing …

Book Reviews, Evans Holbrook, Gordon Stoner

Michigan Law Review

Better City Planning for Bridgeport - By John Nolen, Consultant.on City Planning. With a Report on Legal Methods of Carrying Out the Changes Proposed in the City Plan for Bridgeport. By Frank Backus Williams, of the New York Bar. Published by the City Plan Commission of Bridgeport, Connecticut 1916. pp. xx, i59.

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University of Missouri Bulletin Law Series

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Transfer And Partition Of Remainders In Missouri, The, Manley O. Hudson

University of Missouri Bulletin Law Series

The common law gave to vested remainders many of the qualities of present estates, and most of the questions arising in connection with their transfer have long been free from difficulty. But contingent remainders occupied such a precarious place in the law long after they were first recognized as legal interests, that all questions as to their transferability were approached with exceeding reluctance. The contingent remainderman had only a mere possibility of an estate, and the employment of such a description was in itself sufficient to conjure difficulty, for possibility to the common law lawyer was a dangerous word. A …

Masthead

University of Missouri Bulletin Law Series

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Table Of Contents

University of Missouri Bulletin Law Series

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Notes On Recent Missouri Cases

University of Missouri Bulletin Law Series

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Book Review (Reviewing Lindsay Rogers, The Postal Power Of Congress: A Study In Constitutional Expansion (1916)), James Parker Hall

Articles

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Extension Of Judicial Review In New York, Edward S. Corwin

Michigan Law Review

There are several reasons why it should be worth while to investigate the operation of the most unique of American governmental institutions in the most important state of the Union. For one thing, in the person of Chancellor KZN" New York furnished one of the founders of American Constitutional Law, while at the same time it was KzNT's fame that early gave New York decisions the importance they still retain in great part in the field of citation and precedent. Again it was YNT'S influence that inclined the fresh shoot of constitutional jurisprudence in New York in a conservative direction, …

Carmack Amendment In The State Courts, Wayland H. Sanford

Michigan Law Review

Prior to the leading case of Adams Express Co. v. Croninger,'- decided January 6th, 1913, there was much diversity in the decisions of the state courts as to the validity of contracts between shippers and carriers limiting the amount of the carrier's liability for injuries to goods shipped. Such limitations were held valid in some states, but invalid in others, and in some were declared invalid by statutes or constitutional provisions.2 State rules were applied to interstate as well as intrastate shipments, it being supposed that Congress had not legislated upon the subject. The CARMACK AmlNDVNT of i9o6s provided that …

Note And Comment, Edson R. Sunderland, John R. Rood, Harry G. Gault, William L. Owen, Melville C. Mason

Michigan Law Review

Simplification of Judicial Procedure in Federal Courts - In 1914 the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives unanimously reported favorably upon a bill (H. R. 133) authorizing the Supreme Court of the United States to prescribe by rule the forms, kind and character of the entire pleading, practice and procedure to be used in all actions and proceedings at law in the federal courts, with a view to their simplification, which rules should, when promulgated, take precedence of any law in conflict therewith. On January 2, 1917, a similar bill (S. 4551) was favorably reported from the Senate Judiciary …

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Adverse Possession Mistake - From a decree quieting in plaintiff title by adverse possession, defendants appealed, contending that plaintiff claimed the land only under and by virtue of a will which in fact conferred no legal title, and that such a claim was not adverse. Held, assuming that plaintiff believed he was asserting legal rights only, and that his claim of title was defective, his possession would nevertheless ripen into title by adverse possession. Erickson v. Crosby, (Neb. 1916) x6o N. W. 94.

Book Reviews, John R. Rood, Gordon Stoner

Michigan Law Review

The Torrens System. A manual of the Uniform Land Registration Act in Virginia, to which is appended the Annotated Act, Proposed Rules of Court, and a complete System of Forms-Eugene C. Massie, Richmond, Virginia. Everett Waddey Co., i916. pp. xvii, 2o6.

Examen Crítico De Las Diversas Teorías Sobre La Posesión, Carlos Jiménez De La Torre

Cuban Law

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Bulletin Of Richmond College: Catalogue Of The Law School For 1917-1918, University Of Richmond

Law School Catalogues

While the country is at war, the Richmond College Law School Catalogue will be limited to the following brief statements:

Entrance Requirements:

Pursuant to notice, the following entrance requirements have been adopted, and are in operation. In every case the applicant for admission should apply to the President of the College for a blank certificate of admission, and have the question of entrance definitely settled before coming to College.

Newton D. Baker Scrapbook, October 3, 1916-November 2, 1917, Newton D. Baker

Newton D. Baker Scrapbooks

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The Pandex, Volume Xiii

Kansas City School of Law Pandex Collection

Yearbook for Kansas City School of Law in Kansas City, Missouri, includes photos of and information about the school, student body, professors, and organizations.