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Telegraph, Telephone And Wireless-Tapping Jan 1928

Telegraph, Telephone And Wireless-Tapping

Michigan Law Review

A recent Federal case, Olmstead v. United States, suggests an interesting problem. Evidence obtained by Federal authorities, who tapped private telephone wires, was admitted in a criminal prosecution. It seems to be the general rule that fraudulently, wrongfully, or illegally procured evidence is admissible, if otherwise admissible. And certainly the courts have required telegraph companies to disclose messages to aid criminal prosecutions. Telegraph operators have been compelled to testify. And even where a state statute forbade disclosure of the message by the company, a subpoena duces tecum has compelled the production of a telegram to aid the courts. Testimony …


Recent Important Decisions Jan 1928

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


The Institute's Restatement And The Michigan Law, Herbert F. Goodrich Dec 1927

The Institute's Restatement And The Michigan Law, Herbert F. Goodrich

Michigan Law Review

The task which the American Law Institute has undertaken is to make a statement of the common law, in its various branches. The end in view is not codification; indeed the idea is directly opposed to codification. It is hoped to have, when the work is completed, an accurate statement of existing common law, carefully and systematically made, from which local variations and peculiarities have been ironed out. It is hoped, in other words, to restore both accuracy and continuity to the pattern of the common law fabric as it is woven in our judicial mills.


Recent Important Decisions Dec 1927

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


Book Reviews Dec 1927

Book Reviews

Michigan Law Review

A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.


Natural Law In American Constitutional Theory, Fowler Vincent Harper Nov 1927

Natural Law In American Constitutional Theory, Fowler Vincent Harper

Michigan Law Review

Natural law has had many meanings and diversified interpretations. Whether in the form of jus naturale, the law of nature, the law of reason, lex naturalis, lex aeterna, natural justice, or due process of law; natural law, in the broadest sense, has evolved as the needs of a particular civilization and the endeavors of its legal scholars have directed. It is significant, however, that as a philosophy of law, natural law continues to thrive, although the particular system which one community constructs may be abandoned by succeeding generations. Periods of growth in the law have been frequently accompanied …


Constitutional Law-Searches And Seisures-Distraction Between Searching A Building And An Automobile Without Warrant Nov 1927

Constitutional Law-Searches And Seisures-Distraction Between Searching A Building And An Automobile Without Warrant

Michigan Law Review

An officer observed the odor of boiling mash and fermentation issuing from the dwelling of the defendant. The officer, without warrant, entered the basement and there found the defendant operating two stills. Considerable whiskey was found stored within the room. Defendant was arrested and convicted. On appeal he contended that the search was unlawful. Held, the search without warrant was unreasonable and in violation of the Fourth Amendment to the Federal Constitution. Schroeder v. United States, 14 F. (2d) 500.


Public Utility Valuation For Rate Making Purposes Nov 1927

Public Utility Valuation For Rate Making Purposes

Michigan Law Review

Ever since Munn v. Illinois (1876) 94 U. S. 113, which first decided that the charges to be made for services rendered by public utilities were to be subject to governmental regulation, the courts have been confronted with a problem, so elusive and indefinite, that over five decades of litigation and wrangling have failed to provide a satisfactory solution. The so called "rule" of Smyth v. Ames (1898) 169 U. S. 466, specifying the elements to be considered in ascertaining the value of public utilities for the purpose of rate-making, has only served to submerge the problem further in its …


Recent Important Decisions Nov 1927

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


The Rule, The Principle, The Standard In Fluctuating Exchange, Joseph H. Drake Jun 1927

The Rule, The Principle, The Standard In Fluctuating Exchange, Joseph H. Drake

Michigan Law Review

Three methods of solution of the problems of damages in fluctuating exchange have evolved out of the welter of conflicting decisions and the hubbub of contradictory discussions during the reconstruction period of the last decade. The use of the rule and of the principle have been advocated with much vigor and acumen, and there have been some suggestions that we might be driven to resort to an equitable standard as a means of solving the difficulties.


Constitutional Law-Regulation Of Resale Of Tickets Of Admission To Places Of Entertainment Jun 1927

Constitutional Law-Regulation Of Resale Of Tickets Of Admission To Places Of Entertainment

Michigan Law Review

An addition has been made to a series of cases indicating that the United States Supreme Court is turning away from a tendency to sustain state legislation, especially where the factual basis constituting the inducement of the enactment involves debatable factors. in a five to four decision that gives the unscrupulous ticket scalpers free rein to shear all the fleece from the theatre going lambs of greater New York, the Supreme Court has held to be in violation of the Fourteenth-Amendment a New York statute limiting the resale price of tickets of admission to places of entertainment to fifty cents …


Injunction Against Search By Police Officers Jun 1927

Injunction Against Search By Police Officers

Michigan Law Review

A nice equipoise of public and private interest is disclosed in the case of Des Moines Drug Co. v. Doe, in which the Iowa Supreme Court recently had occasion to consider questions raised by a bill in equity to enjoin a search by police officers endeavouring to enforce the liquor laws.


Recent Important Decisions Jun 1927

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


Waiver Of Trial By Jury In Criminal Cases, S. Chesterfield Oppenheim May 1927

Waiver Of Trial By Jury In Criminal Cases, S. Chesterfield Oppenheim

Michigan Law Review

Waiver of jury trial in criminal cases generally is a highly practical issue at the present time both from the standpoint of the public and of the accused. The belief is common that the element of delay is one of the primary causes of the general disrespect attaching to the courts of criminal juridiction. It is said that an overzealousness in shielding the citizen against oppression and injustice has resulted in shifting to the background expedients designed to simplify and give momentum to the disposition of criminal cases.


Recent Important Decisions May 1927

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


New Avenues To Freedom, Edwin D. Dickinson Apr 1927

New Avenues To Freedom, Edwin D. Dickinson

Michigan Law Review

Lay opinion regards the law of nations as a weak and ineffective system. It is the fashion to deplore the inefficacy: of its precepts and to regard it as a sort of benevolent code unsupported by any forces which can really compel observance. There is a good deal of loose talk about providing sanctions. The truth is, however, that few systems of law are so infested with tyrannies. It is not sanctions which are needed so much as opportunities for growth. It is not the buttressing of existing dogmas which is required so much as new avenues to freedom.


Juristic Idealism And Legal Practice, Joseph H. Drake Apr 1927

Juristic Idealism And Legal Practice, Joseph H. Drake

Michigan Law Review

The leading exponent of juristic idealism in Germany is Rudolf Stammler, Professor in the University of Berlin. He is uncompromising in his idealistic theory. He even resents being called a pragmatic idealist, possibly lest the chameleon like connotation of this word might seem to detract in any way from the absolute character of his conception of the idea. He is to be thought of rather as the third of that great triumvirate of juristic idealists; namely, Socrates-Kant-Stammler. It is then rather a curious phenomenon that wl1en his juristic philosophy is transplanted to alien soil, it is the pragmatic element in …


The Right To Fish In Fresh-Water Streams Apr 1927

The Right To Fish In Fresh-Water Streams

Michigan Law Review

Nearly three centuries ago Lord Hale wrote the "Fresh rivers, of what kind soever, do, of common right, belong to the owners of the soils adjacent and, if a man be the owner of the land on both sides, in common presumption, he . hath the right of fishing according to the extent of his land in length." This doctrine of the common law, to the extent that it concerns riparian ownership, has long been accepted in Michigan. In this state the owner of the riparian lands owns the submerged lands connected therewith to the thread of the stream. Quite …


Book Reviews Apr 1927

Book Reviews

Michigan Law Review

A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.


Recent Important Decisions Apr 1927

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


The Effect Of Foreign Divorce Upon Dower And Curtesy, Robert W. Wheeler Mar 1927

The Effect Of Foreign Divorce Upon Dower And Curtesy, Robert W. Wheeler

Michigan Law Review

Dower and curtesy are no longer viewed with the kindly eye with which the older law regarded these marital property rights. While inroads have been made by statute, which in many instances have abolished these estates, there are still a large number of states which retain dower and curtesy in their original or in a modified form. Coincident with the decline of these estates has come the great increase of divorces, so that the question of the effect of foreign divorce upon dower and curtesy is litigated with increasing frequency. The problem requires first a consideration of the relation of …


The Primitive Character And Origin Of The Bonorum Possessio, George M. Bush Mar 1927

The Primitive Character And Origin Of The Bonorum Possessio, George M. Bush

Michigan Law Review

The Bonorum Possessio, or Praetorian inheritance or succession, is one of the most important, complicated and difficult sections in the study of the Private law of Rome. This subject is not well known to students of Roman law, although so far it has been the object of much research on the part of many German and a few French, scholars.


Declaratory Judgments Under State Statutes In Federal Courts Mar 1927

Declaratory Judgments Under State Statutes In Federal Courts

Michigan Law Review

Will the federal courts render declaratory judgments when sitting in states which have adopted statutes authorizing that form of relief? A recent decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, written by Justice Sanford, has thrown the whole problem of declaratory judgments in the federal courts into a most unfortunate state of confusion. Liberty Warehouse Co. v. B. S. Grannis, 47 Sup. Ct. Rep. 282.


Recent Important Decisions Mar 1927

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


Book Reviews Mar 1927

Book Reviews

Michigan Law Review

A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.


Recent Important Decisions Feb 1927

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


Trusts-Trust Estates As Bona Fide Purchasers Feb 1927

Trusts-Trust Estates As Bona Fide Purchasers

Michigan Law Review

The doctrine of bona fide purchase is of ancient origin. It has had many significances and interpretations attached to it. At one time it was explained entirely by the special nature of equity and equitable remedies. Maitland used it to show that equities were rights in personam. That the doctrine is no gauge for the quality of the prior estate was shown by Dean Pound, since legal titles may also be cut off. The doctrine has been criticized as anomalous. Two other writers have taken rather different views of the rule. Mr. J. E. Hogg suggests that the bona …


Crimes-Charge To Jury Feb 1927

Crimes-Charge To Jury

Michigan Law Review

Defendant was indicted for murder and manslaughter under sections 15224-5, 3 Compiled Laws of Michigan 1915. The judge gave charges for first and second degree murder and for manslaughter. There was no evidence of murder. A manslaughter verdict was returned. The case was reversed because the murder charge was unsupported by any evidence, and because the defendant was hampered in cross examination. People v. Stahl, 234 Mich. 569, 208 N. W. 685.


Aesthetic Zoning Regulations, Newman F. Baker Dec 1926

Aesthetic Zoning Regulations, Newman F. Baker

Michigan Law Review

The court house of Sangamon county, Illinois, is situated in the center of a block or square, known as Lincoln Square, in the city of Springfield. The building is of architectural beauty and great historical interest, the corner stone having been laid in 1837 and the building used as the Capitol building for the state of Illinois until 1876. The buildings on the four sides of the Square were all two or more stories in height until January, 1926, when a three- story building, located on the north-east corner of the Square was practically destroyed by fire. The owners planned …


Public Utilities -Statutory Review By The State Supreme Court Of A Decision By The Commission Dec 1926

Public Utilities -Statutory Review By The State Supreme Court Of A Decision By The Commission

Michigan Law Review

Fifteen states in enacting public utility laws creating public utility commissions, have provided for an appeal on review of commission decisions, by the supreme court of the state. Other states provide for review by lower state courts with a subsequent appeal therefrom to the supreme court. No doubt, the direct appeal goes hand in hand with the more expeditious legal procedure exemplified by the creation of such administrative tribunals. In most states, including eight of the above fifteen, the constitutions provide that the jurisdiction of the supreme courts shall be appellate only, except for a few prerogative writs of original …