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Law Of Dramatic Copyright. Ii., Edward S. Rogers

Michigan Law Review

V. Dramatization of novels. - Continued. - Fortunately, we, in the United States, have had very little trouble in regard to the dramatization of novels. The copyright statute provides that the author of a copyrighted book may reserve the right to dramatize and translate his own work. There is no question, however, that but for this act which creates the additional right of dramatization and translation, the English rule would be in force in this country. The exclusive right of translating "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was denied Mrs. Stowe in Stowe v. Thomas, "decided before the enactment of the statute permitting …

Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Constitutional Law--Unlawful Delegation of Legislative Power; Fraudulent Conveyances--Estoppel Against Married Woman; Ackknowledgment Taken and Certified by a Stockholder of Corporation Mortgage or Grantee; Constitutional Law--Power of the Legislature to Abridge the Authority of Courts to Punish for Contempt; Special Assessments--right of Taxpayer to Defent Upon the Ground that IMprovements were not Properly Made; Judgements--Estoppel to Maintain Subsequent Action for Different Cause; Anti-Trist Act--Discrimination in Favor of Certain Classes; Courts--Conflict of Jurisdiction--Creditor's Bill; Garnishment--Possession to Charge Garnishee; Judgements--Satisfaction by Levy; Jugements--Execution Sales--Right of Defendant on Reversal

The Law Of Dramatic Copyright, Edward S. Rogers

Michigan Law Review

Literary Property at Common Law.--There have been few legal questions so generally and so fully discussed-as that relating to the property of authors in their. writings. Up to 1769, it was generally conceded that authors enjoyed, by virtue of the common law, a perpetual copyright, and copyrights were sold and made the basis of family settlements. In 1769, the great case of Millar v. Taylor, was decided. An action had been brought in 1766 to recover ior the piracy of "Thomson's Seasons," and it was held by a majority of the judges, Lord Mansfield, Mr. Justice Aston and Mr. Justice …

Note And Comment, Floyd R. Mechem

Michigan Law Review

The Law School; Trade-Mark -- Invented Word -- Words Expressing Character or Quality; State Quarantine Laws as Affecting Inter-State or Foreign Commerce; Druggist - Liability for Negligence; Constitutional Law -- Inter-State Commerce -- Charging More for Shorter Than for Longer Haul; Malicious Prosecution of Purely Civil Action Without Arrest of Person or Seizure of Property; is it Fraud for a Plaintiff to Conceal Defenses to his own Action?; Wills--Withnesses Signing Before Testator, Effect; Impeachment of Witness--Privileged Communication; Evidence--Dying Declaration; Partnership by Estoppel in Tort Cases; Color Distinctions--Separations of Passengers upon Street Cars; Mortgage of Furture Offspring of Animals owned by …

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Adverse Possession--Color of Title-Deed Void for Indefinite Description; Agency--Broker--Damages for Terminating Authority Without Giving Reasonable Time to Sell; Agency--Liability of Agent to Principal for Acts of Sub-Agent; Agency--Ratification; Attachment--Ground For--Removal of Debt--Situs; Bankruptcy--validity of Bankruptcy Act of 1898; Conflict of Laws--Conveyance--Covenants; Constitutional Law--Fourteenth Amendment--Blacklisting Statute; Constitutional Law--Retroactive Legislation--Curative Act; Constitutional Law--Statute Prohibiting Discharge of Members of Labor Unions; Contract--Performance to the Satisfaction of the Promisee; Damages Sale--duty to Minimize Loss; Mandamus--Jurisdiction to Issue Write Against the Governor; Mandamus Against Officer--Abatement by Change of Officer; Master and Servant--Act Within the Scope of the Employment; Master and Servant--Contract to Employ--Duty of Master …

Recent Legal Literature, George Washington Pepper, Floyd R. Mechem, Edson R. Sunderland, Robert E. Bunker, Aaron V. Mcalvay, Mark Norris, Bradley Thompson, Victor H. Lane, James H. Brewster, R. Rood, Floyd R. Mechem

Michigan Law Review

Thorpe: The Constitutional History of the United States; The American State Reports, containing the Cases of General Value and Authority Subsequent to those Contained in the "American Decisions" and the "American Reports," Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States. Selected, Reported, and Annotated by A. C. Freeman, and the Associate Editors of the "American Decisions." Vol. 82-85; Sibbley: The Right to and the Cause for Action; Mack and Nash (eds.): Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure; Page: A concise treatise on the Law of Wills; May: The Law of Insurance as Applied to …

The Genesis And Development Of The Law Of Waters In The Far West, John B. Clayberg

Michigan Law Review

The law of waters, as now settled on the Pacific Coast and the adjacent states is such a distinct departure from the common law of waters, that an investigation of the cause and reasons for such departure cannot fail to be interesting to every lawyer who cares to informed with reference to such peculiarities. There is no occasion to more than. briefly refer to the common law of running waters and inland lakes, because it is well settled by a long line of decisions practically Uniform, and every lawyer is familiar with it. It will be sufficient to state the …

Note & Comment, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Announcement; Note and Comment: The Right of a De Jure Officer to Recover Salary or Fees Paid to a De Facto Officer; Exemplary Damages Where Acutal Damages Merely Nominal; Seduction--Fiction of Service; Negligence--Druggist Selling Proprietary Medicine Without Knowing Contents; Physician--Duty to Respond to Call; Wills--Contract to Make--Fraud in Obtaining Charity--Relief in Equity; Sale--Bank Cashing Draft Drawn Against consignment of Goods as Purchaser--Liability Upon Express or Implied Warranty of Title or Quality; Voters--Right to Vote for Candidate whose Name is not on the Official Ballot; Constitutional Law--Fourteenth Amendment--Due Process--Equal Protection; Statute of Limitations--Failure to Leave Subjacent Support in Mining--When Statute begins …

Cases On The Law Of Damages, Floyd R. Mechem

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Note to the Second Edition: “The following selection of cases in the law of Damages has been made primarily for use in connection with the lectures upon that subject given in the Law department of the University of Michigan. The purpose has been particularly to supply illustration of the application of principles referred to in the lectures, and partly to supplement the lectures by rounding out the view of certain fields not otherwise completely developed.”

Note to the Third Edition: “While the general features remain the same, the number of cases in this edition has been considerably increased in the …

Directory Of Living Members Of The 1902 University Of Michigan Law Class

Yearbooks & Class Year Publications

Directory of the Law Class of 1902 at its 50th reunion.

Directory Of The 1902 Law Class

Yearbooks & Class Year Publications

Second edition of the directory of the Law Class of 1902.

Cases On The General Principles Of The Law Of Private Corporations, Volume 2, Horace L. Wilgus

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In the first volume, and in the first two titles of the second volume, are considered the doctrines relating to the birth, life, powers, acts, obligations, and death of a corporation, effort being made to get a view of the general principles of the whole.

This second volume, with the exception of the first two titles, deals with the Corporation as a Subject and Source of Peculiar Rights and Obligations in its twofold aspect of Corporate Relations and Individual Relations.

University Of Michigan Department Of Law Annual Announcement 1902-1903, University Of Michigan Law School

Law School Announcement and Bulletins

Department of Law; The Department Building; Libraries; Directions to Candidates for Admission; Requirements for Admission; Admission to Advanced Standing; Class Rating; Admission of Special Students; Examinations for Admission; Course of Instruction; Recitations and Examinations; Theses; The Practice Court; Club Courts; Conveyancing; The Graduate Course; Roman Law; Elocution and Oratory; Oratorical Associations; Northern Oratorical League; Central Debating League; Pennsylvania-Michigan Contest; University Oratorical Association; Literary Societies; Requirements for Graduation; The Degree of Bachelor of Laws; The Degree of Master of Laws; Certificates of Attendance; Work in the Department of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Constitutional History and Political Science; Combined Course in …

1902 Law Class Directory

Yearbooks & Class Year Publications

Directory of the Law Class of 1902.

Recent Decisions

Michigan Law Review

Agency--Ratification--Knowledge Necessary; Agency--Undisclosed Principal--Defence Against Agent; Bailments--Action by Bailee against Third Person; Bankruptcy--Homestead Exemption--State Law not Enforced; Bankruptcy--Homestead Exemption; Bills and Notes--Cashier's Check--Indorsed for Illegal Consideration; Carriers--Street Railway--Track Used by Another Company; Chattel Mortgage--Sufficiency of Description; Conflict of Laws--Statute of Frauds--Statute Affecting Remedy--Representations as to Another's Credit; Constitutional Law--14th Amendment--Class Legislation--License Law; Evidence--Physical Examination of Plaintiff in Personal Injury Suit; Insurance--Construction of Terms of Indemnity Policy; Insurance--Agreement to Issue New Policy--Effect of Failure to Surender Old Policy and Make Demand Within Time Stipulated; Landlord and Tenant--Covenant for Re-Entry--Re-Entry by Ejectment Only--Summary Proceedings; Landlord and Tenant--Covenant Not to Assign--Runs with the …

Cases On The General Principles Of The Law Of Private Corporations, Volume 1, Horace L. Wilgus

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This work is designed to furnish those interested in the study of Corporation Law, -whether practitioner, teacher or student, - such material from the original sources, and in such order, as will show how reason and experience have dealt with the subject. Effort has been made in the selection to secure the best expression of the underlying reason or theory; to place these in such order as to develop, in a natural way, the general theory of Corporation Law, set forth in the table of contents; to insert such notes as will present a more comprehensive view of some of …

Illustrative Cases On Equity Jurisprudence, Harry B. Hutchins, Robert E. Bunker

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“‘Hutchins & Bunker’s Illustrative Cases on Equity Jurisprudence” is a recently published collection of 286 cases, selected by Dean Harry B. Hutchins and Prof. Robert E. Bunker, both of the University of Michigan. These cases cover the entire subject of Equity Jurisprudence, and are classified according to the arrangement that is followed in Eaton on Equity….” -- American Law School Review 1, no.1 (1902): 30, “Recent Legal Publications.”

Preferences Arising From Trust Relations, Harry B. Hutchins

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Where property has once been impressed with a trust, the quality inheres therein and in the proceeds thereof so long as the trust relation continues, provided the rights of a bonafide purchaser for value and without notice do not intervene and identification remain possible. The trust impress, in the absence of a superior equity, at once places property in the preferred class. In equity, trust property belongs to the cesiui que trust, and his claim to it cannot be defeated by the insolvency or dishonesty of the trustee, if it constitutes, in an identifiable form, a part of the trustee's …

Eligibility To Office--As Of What Time Determined, Floyd R. Mechem

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Eligibility to office under our political system cannot be regarded as a natural right, and some rules or regulations are therefore obviously indispensable to determine what shall be the qualifications which shall be deemed necessary or sufficient. These rules are usually express and written ones, though in a few cases they have been deduced by inference from considerations of policy or propriety

Authority Of Allen V. Flood, Horace Lafayette Wilgus

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In the case of Allen v. Flood, one of the Lords asked this interesting question, "If the cook says to her master, 'Discharge the butler or I leave you,' and the master discharges the butler, does the butler have an action against the cook?"' This, Lord Shand said, was the simplest form in which the very question in Allen v. Flood could be raised.

Authority Of Allen V. Flood, Horace Lafayette Wilgus

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In the case of Allen v. Flood, one of the Lords asked this interesting question, "If the cook says to her master, 'Discharge the butler or I leave you,' and the master discharges the butler, does the butler have an action against the cook?" This, Lord Shand said, was the simplest form in which the very question in Allen v. Flood could be raised.4 And, like the original question, it puzzled the judges and Lords very much to answer.

A Directory Of The Law Class Of 1901

Yearbooks & Class Year Publications

Directory of the Law Class of 1901.

University Of Michigan Department Of Law Annual Announcement 1901-1902 And Catalogue Of Students For 1900-1901, University Of Michigan Law School

Law School Announcement and Bulletins

Department of Law; The Department Building; Libraries; Directions to Candidates for Admission; Requirements for Admission; Admission to Advanced Standing in 1901; Admission to Advanced Standing in 1902 and Thereafter; Admission of Special Students; Examinations for Admission; Course of Instruction; The Study of Cases; Recitations and Examinations; The Practice Court; Club Courts; Conveyancing; The Graduate Course; Elocution and Oratory; Oratorical Associations; Northern Oratorical League; Central Debating League; Pennsylvania-Michigan Contests; University Oratorical Association; Literary Societies; Requirements for Graduation; Theses; The Degree of Bachelor of Laws; The Degree of Master of Laws; Certificates of Attendance; Work in The Department of Literature, Science, and …

A Treatise On The Law Of Sale Of Personal Property, Volume I, Floyd R. Mechem

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When this task was undertaken the writer believed that there was a real need for an American book upon the law of Sale. In the long time that he bas been at work, various contributions to the subject have been made by others, so that it is possible that the need, if it ever existed, has long since been supplied. The writer, however, whether wisely or unwisely, has persisted in his undertaking, and if bis work shall prove to have a value in some degree commensurate with the labor spent upon it, he will be content.

Outlines Of The Law Of Agency, Floyd R. Mechem

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The subject of Agency belongs to a comparatively recent period in our law … Agency belongs distinctively to a commercial age, and its growth has kept pace with the progress of commercial activity. It furnishes the means by which the range of individual and corporate activity is enormously increased. One person may thus have many an alter ego. A single brain may direct a hundred hands. The modern business man may be constructively present in many places and carry on diverse and widely separated industries at the same time.

The following pages have been printed to accompany the writer’s …

A Treatise On The Law Of Sale Of Personal Property, Volume Ii, Floyd R. Mechem

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When this task was undertaken the writer believed that there was a real need for an American book upon the law of Sale. In the long time that he bas been at work, various contributions to the subject have been made by others, so that it is possible that the need, if it ever existed, has long since been supplied. The writer, however, whether wisely or unwisely, has persisted in his undertaking, and if bis work shall prove to have a value in some degree commensurate with the labor spent upon it, he will be content.

A Study Of The United States Steel Corporation In Its Industrial And Legal Aspects; Being Three Lectures Delivered To The Class In Private Corporations, In The University Of Michigan, June 3, 4 And 5, 1901, Horace L. Wilgus

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When the. class in corporations asked me to lecture upon the United States Steel Corporation, I replied I had not at band such of the documents use.d in its organization as would justify a legal discussion, and I did not wish to rely upon newspaper reports as to their contents. I promised, however, to try to secure authentic information. In order to do this, I wrote Messrs. J. P. Horgan & Co., requesting copies of such papers as were not considered private, stating what use was to be made of them. In reply to this request, they very kindly sent …

Directory Of 1900 Law Class

Yearbooks & Class Year Publications

Fourth edition of the directory of the Law Class of 1900.

Directory Of The 1900 Law Class

Yearbooks & Class Year Publications

Sixth edition of the directory of the Law Class of 1900, at its 30th reunion.

University Of Michigan Department Of Law Annual Announcement 1900-1901 And Catalogue Of Students For 1899-1900, University Of Michigan Law School

Law School Announcement and Bulletins

Department of Law; The Department Building; Libraries; Directions to Candidates for Admission; Requirements for Admission; Prior Reading in Law; Admission to Advanced Standing; Admission to the Graduate Class; Admission of Special Students; Examination for Admission; Course of Instruction; The Study of Cases; Recitations and Examinations; The Graduate Course; The Practice Court; Club Courts; Conveyancing; Elocution and Oratory; Oratorical Associations; Northern Oratorical League; Central Debating League; Pennylvania-Michigan [sic] Contests; University Oratorical Association; Literary Societies; Requirements for Graduation; Theses; The Degree of Bachelor of Laws; The Degree of Master of Laws; Certificates of Attendance; Work in the Department of Literature, Science, and …