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Bills And Notes - Restrictive Indorsement Jan 1932

Bills And Notes - Restrictive Indorsement

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff sued defendant to enforce the collection of two promissory notes which defendant indorsed in blank to X Bank. X Bank indorsed the notes to "Y Bank, as trustee." Y indorsed the notes to plaintiff. All the indorsements were before maturity and for value. Held, on the pleadings, that the order overruling the demurrer to the declaration be sustained. In a concurring opinion, Brown, J., stated that an indorsement to a corporation or person with the words, "as trustee," after the name is not a restrictive indorsement within the meaning of the Uniform Negotiable Instruments Law, sec. 6796, 7, …

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Mistake Of Law In Connection With Titles To Land Jan 1932

Mistake Of Law In Connection With Titles To Land

Michigan Law Review

The confusion resulting from hasty and inaccurate generalization is nowhere better illustrated than in the field of mistake of law as to land titles. The doctrine that no relief can be given for mistake of law is constantly re-asserted by respectable authority, particularly in the case of money paid. But the peculiar hardship in the cases of complete failure of title to land has led to a special treatment of these cases, for which the explanations in judicial opinions are unusually obscure.

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Foreign Diplomats And The Prohibition Laws, Lawrence Preuss Jan 1932

Foreign Diplomats And The Prohibition Laws, Lawrence Preuss

Michigan Law Review

Notwithstanding the general and inclusive nature of the Eighteenth Amendment and of the enforcement legislation enacted under its terms, the executive departments of the national government have acted on the assumption that foreign diplomats are exempted from the operation of the prohibition laws, and have issued regulations by which the importation of liquor by members of this class is permitted. According to statements of the responsible officers concerned, this privilege is based upon "international comity and usage," and upon "the established principles of international Jaw and the statutes of the United States, including the provisions of sections 4063-4065 of the …

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Transfer Of Future Interests, W. Lewis Roberts Jan 1932

Transfer Of Future Interests, W. Lewis Roberts

Michigan Law Review

In considering to what extent future interests are transferable in this country it is proposed to limit the investigation to those future interests known as contingent remainders, executory devises, and defeasible vested remainders. It has not been deemed necessary to consider vested remainders as they have long been treated by the law in much the same way as present estates have been as far as alienation is concerned.

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Alteration Or Replacement Of Buildings By The Long-Term Lessee, Marvin L. Niehuss Jan 1932

Alteration Or Replacement Of Buildings By The Long-Term Lessee, Marvin L. Niehuss

Michigan Law Review

The first Reform Bill of 1832 was at once a symptom and a further cause of momentous changes in English institutions, political and legal, to say nothing of social and ecclesiastical. Many of these were brought about as the result of patient and competent investigations of royal commissions which, though not unknown before the third decade of the nineteenth century, were active to an extent hitherto unheard of during that notable epoch of reform. While a few men of law were among the forward spirits, the bulk of the advance guard were laymen. As a rule judges, barristers and attorneys …

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Landlord And Tenant -Adverse Possession And Prescription-Based On Holding And User By Tenant Jan 1932

Landlord And Tenant -Adverse Possession And Prescription-Based On Holding And User By Tenant

Michigan Law Review

A tenant who enters under a valid lease can, if he denies his landlord's title, and holds openly, notoriously, and adversely to him for the statutory period, acquire title by adverse possession. But suppose the tenant enters under a void lease and holds for the statutory period, claiming merely under the lease. It seems that there are three possible views as to the legal effect of his holding.

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Contracts - Parties - Suit On A Sealed Instrument Jan 1932

Contracts - Parties - Suit On A Sealed Instrument

Michigan Law Review

Defendant was the obligor on a bond under seal given for the faithful performance of a shipbuilding contract in which the obligee was named as "the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation; a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the District of Columbia, representing the United States of America." The contract, to insure the performance of which the bond was executed, was signed by the "Fleet Corporation" and sealed with its own seal. In action at law on the bond brought by the United States, held, since the plaintiff was not a party named in the …

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Landlord And Tenant- Injuries To Third Persons - Liability Of Landlord Jan 1932

Landlord And Tenant- Injuries To Third Persons - Liability Of Landlord

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff alleged that she slipped and fell upon vegetable leaves and other refuse on the sidewalk appurtenant to a fruit store owned by Nickolopulos and leased by him to Galante, thereby sustaining injuries. Held, in a suit brought against both landlord and tenant, that plaintiff stated a cause of action against the landlord, and the motion to dismiss the complaint was properly denied. Brovacko v. Nickolopulos et al. (N. J. 1931) 155 Atl. 765.

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Book Notes And Notices Jan 1932

Book Notes And Notices

Michigan Law Review

This department undertakes to list and, when possible, describe briefly current books on law and related subjects (e.g. economics, business, finance, sociology, government, etc.) which are of possible value to the legal profession.

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Corporations - Dissolution - Distribution Of Assets Between Preferred And Common Stockholders Dec 1931

Corporations - Dissolution - Distribution Of Assets Between Preferred And Common Stockholders

Michigan Law Review

In periods of business depression, problems concerning the dissolution and liquidation of corporations, with the question of preference between the holders of the preferred and common stock, often become very acute. A recent case, presenting the question of preference from the aspect of unpaid dividends on preferred stock, is Penington v. Commonwealth Hotel Construction Corporation.

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The Recognition Of Russia, Edwin D. Dickinson Dec 1931

The Recognition Of Russia, Edwin D. Dickinson

Michigan Law Review

Revolution in Russia culminated, on March 15, 1917, in the abdication of the Romanoffs and the establishment of the Provisional Government. In November, 1917, the Provisional Government was overthrown by the Bolsheviki and the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic was proclaimed. Thus in nine turbulent months authority in Russia passed from the autocracy of the Czars, through the ineffective hands of the moderates, to extreme radicals frankly committed to communism and the dictatorship of the proletariat.

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Trusts - Statute Of Frauds - Part Performance Of Oral Trusts, Mark H. Harrington Dec 1931

Trusts - Statute Of Frauds - Part Performance Of Oral Trusts, Mark H. Harrington

Michigan Law Review

In some jurisdictions, where some equivalent to the seventh section of the English Statute of Frauds has not been enacted, an oral trust of land is enforceable. In others, it is held that the provisions requiring a writing in the case of conveyances of and contracts concerning interests in land forbid oral trusts of land. It is clear, however, that when the statute of frauds in force contains a provision requiring express trusts to be created or evidenced by writing, an oral agreement between grantor and grantee that the property conveyed should be held in trust can not be enforced …

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Insurance - Accidental Means - Death By Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Dec 1931

Insurance - Accidental Means - Death By Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Michigan Law Review

The insured died from the effects of carbon monoxide gas generated by an automobile in a closed garage. The policy which he held in the defendant company provided for compensation only if the means of death were accidental, and the insurer-resisted the claim of his beneficiary for the reason that, even if the death was accidental, it was not a death by accidental means. Held, that if the result is unexpected, death resulting from an intententional act is a death by accidental means. Wiger v. Mutual Life Ins. Co. of New York (Wis. 1931) 236 N.W. 535.

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Report On The Child Offender In The Federal System Of Justice, Fred R. Johnson Nov 1931

Report On The Child Offender In The Federal System Of Justice, Fred R. Johnson

Michigan Law Review

The Report concerning child offenders in the federal system of justice is a joint report for the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement and the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection. The study on which the report is based was conducted by Dr. Miriam van Waters, for many years the referee of the Juvenile Court of Los Angeles. Her choice to direct this study is to be commended. Not only was she in intimate contact with children who were offenders in California, but her experience in varied capacities has made her familiar with juvenile delinquency and its …

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Review Of A Review, Charles E. Clark Nov 1931

Review Of A Review, Charles E. Clark

Michigan Law Review

In an interesting review of WALSH ON EQUITY, in 29 MICH. L. REV. I I 22 (June 1931 ), Professor Clarence D. Laylin appears to ascribe to me parenthood for some pleading concepts set forth in that excellent treatise ( of which I heartily approve; compare my review in 8 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LAW QUARTERLY REVIEW 521, March, 1931). Although these ideas have been supported by able writers and courts for some time, I should not object to the honor but for the fact that Professor Laylin also seems to assume premises which in my opinion are most inimical to …

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Report On The Enforcement Of The Prohibition Laws Of The United States, Albert E. Sawyer Nov 1931

Report On The Enforcement Of The Prohibition Laws Of The United States, Albert E. Sawyer

Michigan Law Review

An attempt will be made in this comment to state the important points in the Report, and to bring together the scattered references to the various groups of information contained in the third collection now being printed by the Senate and to outline very briefly in an appendix the principal relationships between this and the Commission's report. This last is offered in the hope that it may stimulate interest in a closer analysis of this mass of very useful information which might otherwise suffer neglect, not only because of its bulk, but also because of its lack of organization.

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Reports Of The National Commission On Law Observance And Enforcement Nov 1931

Reports Of The National Commission On Law Observance And Enforcement

Michigan Law Review

The article section of this issue of the Law Review is devoted to a consideration of the work of the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement, commonly called the Wickersham Commission.

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Preliminary Report On Observance And Enforcement Of Prohibition And The Report Supplemental Thereto, Edson R. Sunderland Nov 1931

Preliminary Report On Observance And Enforcement Of Prohibition And The Report Supplemental Thereto, Edson R. Sunderland

Michigan Law Review

The Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement was organized on May 28, 1929. Within six months it issued a Preliminary Report on Observance and Enforcement of Prohibition, under date of November 21, 1929, and shortly thereafter issued a Report supplemental thereto.

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Report On Prosecution, Rollin M. Perkins Nov 1931

Report On Prosecution, Rollin M. Perkins

Michigan Law Review

The logical starting point was the discovery and restatement of existing knowledge and information on these subjects, and because of the tremendous mass of material which has appeared in the form of surveys and reports within the last decade and a half, it was deemed wise to enlist the services of an expert in such matters. The analysis which he has produced, let it be added, amply justifies the Commission in his selection.

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Report On Lawlessness In Law Enforcement, John Barker Waite Nov 1931

Report On Lawlessness In Law Enforcement, John Barker Waite

Michigan Law Review

The first part of this Report offers taxpayers little return on their investment. All it even purports to do is to inform the public that the police throughout the country sometimes use intolerable, brutal methods to extract information concerning crime and occasionally keep arrested persons out of communication with lawyers and friends until they can be questioned at length. But of these facts the public was already convinced through newspaper and magazine. Indeed, the Report itself uses the widespread public knowledge of the evil as evidence of its existence. Yet, beyond this repetition of already accepted beliefs, the Report really …

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Report On Police, John Barker Waite Nov 1931

Report On Police, John Barker Waite

Michigan Law Review

The Report begins: "The general failure of the police to detect and arrest criminals . . . has caused a loss of public confidence in the police of our country. For a condition so general there must be some universal underlying causes to account for it."

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Report On Criminal Statistics, Lent D. Upson Nov 1931

Report On Criminal Statistics, Lent D. Upson

Michigan Law Review

Among the reports of the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement, probably none received so little public attention as that on criminal statistics. Statistics, even of the criminal variety, are dull at the best, and not calculated to whet the imagination. One murder may be the basis of a printed volume of gory details and misleading clues with everybody suspected from the parish curate to the author himself. But murders by the gross or bale leave all unmoved except the most hardened editorial commentator.

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Report On The Cost Of Crime, Herbert F, Taggart Nov 1931

Report On The Cost Of Crime, Herbert F, Taggart

Michigan Law Review

The full title of the twelfth report of the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement is "Report on the Cost of Crime and Criminal Justice in the United States." A more descriptive title, suggested by the actual content of the report, would be "The Economic Consequences of Crime." The report constitutes a volume of 657 pages, of which the report proper covers 453 pages, and various appendices make up the balance. For the hasty reader the most essential parts are the first eight pages, constituting the Commission's comments, and the summary and recommendations, of Messrs. Goldthwaite H. Dorr and …

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Report On Penal Institutions, Probation, And Parole, Arthur Evans Wood Nov 1931

Report On Penal Institutions, Probation, And Parole, Arthur Evans Wood

Michigan Law Review

This Report consists of three main parts. The first is called the Commission's Report, and is signed by that body. The second, called the Report of the Advisory Committee to the Commission, is the work of a group which includes many of the most distinguished penologists of the country. The two reports cover much the same ground, they are about the same length, and, with one or two important exceptions, the recommendations and conclusions are the same. The third part is a brief statement entitled Police Jails and Village Lockups, prepared and written by Dr. Hastings H. Hart.

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Report On Crime And The Foreign Born, Joseph Cohen Nov 1931

Report On Crime And The Foreign Born, Joseph Cohen

Michigan Law Review

That the foreign born, more than the native born, tend to run afoul of the law, especially with respect to the more serious offenses, is a popular doctrine which critical opinion in the field of criminology has long been inclined either to qualify as to essential details or to contradict in toto. Twenty years back the Federal Immigration Commission reported that all the evidence then available indicated a lesser criminality on the part of the immigrant group as a whole. Succeeding studies have supported this conclusion. That an adverse view of the foreign born should persist in the face of …

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Report On The Enforcement Of The Deportation Laws Of The United States, E. Blythe Stason Nov 1931

Report On The Enforcement Of The Deportation Laws Of The United States, E. Blythe Stason

Michigan Law Review

This report is concurred in by nine of the eleven members of the Commission. Two members, Henry W. Anderson and Kenneth Mackintosh, file dissenting statements. The Report is accompanied by a thoroughly interesting research study of the administration of the deportation laws, prepared by Reuben Oppenheimer. Since this study constitutes the basis of the report, and since the majority of the Commission concur in the conclusions and recommendations set forth in it, the following remarks will deal primarily with the study itself.

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State Juvenile Court Procedure For Federal Juvenile Offenders, Howard E. Wahrenbrock Nov 1931

State Juvenile Court Procedure For Federal Juvenile Offenders, Howard E. Wahrenbrock

Michigan Law Review

The Report on the Child Offender in the Federal System of Justice recommends the enactment of federal legislation which will provide means of utilizing the machinery of existing state juvenile courts where federal laws have been violated by children. The details of such legislation are not suggested in the Report. The legal questions to be encountered in the framing of such legislation call for careful consideration if full advantage is to be taken of the knowledge which the study made for the Commission furnishes. Some of the questions of more general interest will be taken as the subject of this …

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Appeal And Error - General Verdict On Several Counts- Several Specifications Of Negligence As Constituting One Cause Of Action Nov 1931

Appeal And Error - General Verdict On Several Counts- Several Specifications Of Negligence As Constituting One Cause Of Action

Michigan Law Review

In a highway accident case the plaintiff made five distinct allegations of negligence: failure to place lights upon a plank which had been placed across a highway; failure to remove the plank; permitting and suffering the plank to be placed where it was dangerous to travel; failure to construct poles, gates, and guards so that persons using the highway would be informed of the dangerous situation; and failure to employ a watchman to warn the public of the existence of the obstruction. Held, there was but one act of negligence, hence but one cause of action. Therefore, an erroneous …

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Wills - Executor's Right To Deduct From A Legacy A Debt Due The Estate But Barred By The Statute Of Limitations Nov 1931

Wills - Executor's Right To Deduct From A Legacy A Debt Due The Estate But Barred By The Statute Of Limitations

Michigan Law Review

The decedent left his estate, by will, equally to several persons, one of whom had owed to the testator a debt which was now barred by the statute of limitations so that the executor could not collect it by suit. The executor claimed a right to collect this debt by deducting it from the share of the personal property of the estate given the debtor. The court held that the debt, though barred by the statute of limitations, was still in fairness and good conscience due to the estate and that the executor might deduct it from the share given …

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Book Notes And Notices Nov 1931

Book Notes And Notices

Michigan Law Review

This department undertakes to list and, when possible, describe briefly current books on law and related subjects (e.g. economics, business, finance, sociology, government, etc.) which are of possible value to the legal profession.

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