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The Court Of Claims, J. H. Toelle May 1926

The Court Of Claims, J. H. Toelle

Michigan Law Review

The Court of Claims was established by Act of Congress in 1855. The original Act provided that at the commencement of each session of Congress, and at the commencement of each month during the session, the Court should report the cases upon which they should have finally acted, stating in each the material facts which they found established by the evidence, with their opinion in the case, and the. reasons upon which such opinion was founded, and the opinion of any judge who should dissent from the majority. It also directed the Court to prepare a bill or bills in …


Jurisdiction Over Unincorporated Associations Composed Of Nonresidents May 1926

Jurisdiction Over Unincorporated Associations Composed Of Nonresidents

Michigan Law Review

New York has a statute which provides for suits against unincorporated associations consisting of seven or more members. It reads as follows: An action or special proceeding may be maintained, against the president or treasurer of such an association, * * * upon any cause of action, for or upon which the· plaintiff may maintain such action or special proceeding, against all the associates * * *· Any partnership; or other company of persons, which has a president or treasurer, is, deemed an association within the meaning of this section." General Associations Law (Consol. Laws of N. Y.), sec. 13. …


Recent Important Decisions May 1926

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


Book Reviews May 1926

Book Reviews

Michigan Law Review

A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.


Torts-Liability For Inflicting Corporal Punishment Upon A Child Apr 1926

Torts-Liability For Inflicting Corporal Punishment Upon A Child

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff was an eleven year old boy who had been sent by his parents to work on defendant's farm. The boy's mother had signed a written statement, giving defendant authority to discipline him if and when he broke the regulations enforced upon the farm. The plaintiff had refused to perform some of the tasks assigned him, and had told several falsehoods, whereupon the defendant had inflicted corporal punishment upon his nude body by means of a crude rubber whip about 30 inches long. Held, one standing in loco parentis has the right to punish a child under his care, …


Recent Important Decisions Apr 1926

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


Have The Bench And Bar Anything To Contribute To The Teaching Of Law?, Learned Hand Mar 1926

Have The Bench And Bar Anything To Contribute To The Teaching Of Law?, Learned Hand

Michigan Law Review

The teaching of lawyers is indeed as distinct a vocation from the practice of law, as law is from engineering or science. You have of recent years come practically to recognize it by your increasing insistence upon the teacher's exclusive devotion to his calling, so that I suppose not only has the well-worn practitioner wholly disappeared, who from his semi-antiquation delivers a course of lectures, but the part time teacher even in the prime of his powers is more and more evidently doomed. I cannot see this change as anything but happy and advantageous. If for no other reason I …


The Legal Position Of Foreigners In Soviet Russia, Leo Zaitzeff Dr. Mar 1926

The Legal Position Of Foreigners In Soviet Russia, Leo Zaitzeff Dr.

Michigan Law Review

The Soviet Government has replaced the entire previous legal order by legislation of its own; it is therefore not surprising that even in well informed legal circles outside of Russia very vague and indefinite notions exist regarding the legal situation there. In the last few years moreover, many states have considered it necessary to recognize the Soviet Government. Since this recognition or even before, there have been some economic undertakings within &met territory by foreign individuals, but even these persons for the most part were entirely unfamiliar with the Soviet laws.


Libel--A Limitation On The Privilege Of Publishing Reports Of Judicial Proceedings Mar 1926

Libel--A Limitation On The Privilege Of Publishing Reports Of Judicial Proceedings

Michigan Law Review

Is a newspaper privileged in fairly publishing the substance of a petition for divorce or other pleading immediately after it is filed in court? In the recent case of Washington Times v. Hines, (1925) 5 F. (2d) 541, in the District of Columbia, it appeared that defendant had published a typically facetious newspaper account of the divorce grounds alleged in a petition filed against plaintiff. The court of appeals, reversing a judgment of the trial court for plaintiff, held that the report was as a matter of law not libellous, since the bill was not susceptible of any other interpretation …


Recent Important Decisions Mar 1926

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


Erring Judges Of The Thirteenth Century, William Renwick Riddell Feb 1926

Erring Judges Of The Thirteenth Century, William Renwick Riddell

Michigan Law Review

The Royal Historical Society (of London) has published much material of great interest to lawyers-an humble Fellow, I think none is more interesting than that published in 1906: "State Trials of the Reign of Edward the First, 1289-1293".


Recent Important Decisions Feb 1926

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


International Law--Treaties--Are The Rum Tretaties Self-Executing? Jan 1926

International Law--Treaties--Are The Rum Tretaties Self-Executing?

Michigan Law Review

On May 22, 1924, the United States concluded a treaty with Great Britain by which the latter power agreed that it would raise no objection to the search and seizure of its ships by American authorities on the high seas, provided there was reason to suspect that such ships were committing or attempting to commit an offense against United States laws, and provided the search and seizure were made within an hour's run of the American coast. In return the United States conceded to British ships the privilege of bringing into its ports liquor in bond in their ship stores. …


The Power Of The Written Assertion, Gustavus Ohlinger Jan 1926

The Power Of The Written Assertion, Gustavus Ohlinger

Michigan Law Review

In his Outline of History Mr. Wells comments on the exaggerated estimate which people generally, through reading the Old Testament account, have come to entertain of the wisdom of Solomon and of the glory and prestige of the Israelitish Kingdom during his reign. By way of contrast, the facts, which are readily available and discernable even in the scriptural narrative, reveal this much advertised monarch as a rather insignificant chieftain and his kingdom as a pawn in the policies of his powerful neighbors-a striking example, according to Mr. Wells, of the power of the written assertion over realities in men's …


Canada's Treaty Making Power, C. D. Allin Jan 1926

Canada's Treaty Making Power, C. D. Allin

Michigan Law Review

The question of the treaty-making power of the Dominion of Canada was raised in an acute form during the negotiations between Great Britain and the United States governments over the halibut fisheries. After several years of investigation and negotiation, a draft agreement was drawn up by the American State Department and sent to the Canadian government through the British ambassador at Washington. According to the title and preamble of the treaty, the convention was drawn up between the United States and Great Britain, but by Article I, "The Nationals and inhabitants and fishing vessels and boats of the United States …


What Is An Unreasonable Search? Jan 1926

What Is An Unreasonable Search?

Michigan Law Review

In Carroll v. United States (1925) 267 U. S. 132, 45 Sup. Ct. 280, the Supreme Court held that there may be a reasonable search of an automobile without a search warrant. The recent case of Agnello v. United States (Oct. 12, 1925) 46 Sup. Ct. 4, goes far in the opposite direction with reference to the search of a dwelling house. In the latter case several defendants were convicted of conspiracy to violate the Harrison Drug Act, a felony under the federal law. Two government revenue agents had negotiated with defendants Alba and Centorino in the home of Alba …


The Intention Fallacy In The Construction Of Title Retaining Contracts, Abraham J. Levin Dec 1925

The Intention Fallacy In The Construction Of Title Retaining Contracts, Abraham J. Levin

Michigan Law Review

''Truth", said William James, "lives for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs 'pass', so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass, so long as nobody refuses them." This can also be said of legal principles. In the interpretation and construction of conditional sales and kindred title retaining instruments the courts and lawyers and text writers have assumed that the intention of the parties governs under all circumstances regardless of whether the suit is between the original parties to the contract, or whether the issue involves the rights of third parties. So far as …


Pseudo-Protection Of The Property In Rate Cases Dec 1925

Pseudo-Protection Of The Property In Rate Cases

Michigan Law Review

It is clear that in ascertaining the present value we are not limited to the consideration of the actual investment. If that has been reckless or improvident, losses may be sustained which the community does not underwrite. As the company may not be protected in its actual investment, if the value of its property be plainly less, so the making of a just return for the use of the property involves the recognition of its fair value if it be more than its cost. The property is held in private ownership, and it is that property, and not the original …


Wills--Admissibility Of Parole Evidence To Show Mistake Of Scrivner Dec 1925

Wills--Admissibility Of Parole Evidence To Show Mistake Of Scrivner

Michigan Law Review

Perhaps very few legal questions have given rise to more controversy than that of the admissibility of parol evidence to show the intent of a testator. An interesting phase of the general question was presented to the supreme court of errors of Connecticut in the recent case of Stearns v. Stearns, (Conn. 1925) 130 Atl. 112. Parol evidence was offered to show that the testatrix intended to devise and bequeath all the residue and remainder of her estate to her husband and that instructions were so given to the scrivener but he failed to draft the will in accordance …


Book Reviews Dec 1925

Book Reviews

Michigan Law Review

A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.


The Significance Of The Endowment, John M. Zane Dec 1925

The Significance Of The Endowment, John M. Zane

Michigan Law Review

Engraven over the entrance to this building are the words "The Character of the Legal Profession Depends on the Character of the Law Schools. The Character of the Law Schools Forecasts the Future of America."


An Appraisal Of English Procedure, Edson R. Sunderland Dec 1925

An Appraisal Of English Procedure, Edson R. Sunderland

Michigan Law Review

On paper the program of the London meeting of the American Bar Association last year was not a crowded one. No busy morning sessions hurried the members away from their hotels; at noon there was a leisurely opportunity for comfortable luncheons; and the drowsy summer afternoon was far advanced before the real business of the day began. But the printed program only marked the high points of the meeting. All through the week, by day and by night, there was London to be seen, the Abbey, the Tower, the Thames, palaces, parks and galleries, and the thousand historic spots which …


Recent Important Decisions Dec 1925

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


The Next Task Of The Law School, James Parker Hall Nov 1925

The Next Task Of The Law School, James Parker Hall

Michigan Law Review

When, last December, I first saw these beautiful buildings, I could only exclaim: "It is a dream--a wonderful dream come true!" There was nothing original about this exclamation. You have all said or thought the same thing every time you have approached this quadrangle. In my mouth this trite but spontaneous utterance was but part of the res gestae of being conducted through the group by Dean Bates, the proud and intimate spirit of this architectural magnificence. And now, when I am privileged to return and to share in the dedication to the high service of man of this miracle …


Inheritance Taxatlon Nov 1925

Inheritance Taxatlon

Michigan Law Review

The recent decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in Frick v. Pennsylvania, (June 1925) Adv. Ops. 122, 123, 124, 125, is of vital importance in the field of inheritance taxation. The facts as far as material to the present discussion are these: one Henry C. Frick, domiciled in Pennsylvania, died testate in 1919 leaving a large estate, consisting, among other things, of certain tangible personalty permanently located in New York and other tangible personalty located in Massachusetts and stock in various corporations chartered by states other than Pennsylvania. This property was all included in the clear …


Sterilization Of Mental Defectives, Burke Shartel Nov 1925

Sterilization Of Mental Defectives, Burke Shartel

Michigan Law Review

In 1923 the legislature of Michigan passed an act "to authorize the sterilization of mentally defective persons". This act has recently been sustained in its main provisions by the Michigan supreme court in a case brought to test its constitutionality. Probably the United States Supreme Court will also have an opportunity to pass upon the validity of this law, but the Michigan decision, although not final on the question whether the sterilization of defectives is violative of the "due process clause" of the Fourteenth Amendment, is nevertheless very significant. It is the first instance so far as the writer can …


The New Holdsworth, Arthur Lyon Cross Nov 1925

The New Holdsworth, Arthur Lyon Cross

Michigan Law Review

In view of the fact that Pollock and Maitland do not go beyond the time of Edward I and Reeves no further than Elizabeth's reign, Professor Holdsworth, in publishing a revision and extension to the eighteenth century of his well known work, ventures to point out that it is "the first continuous history of English law that has ever been written". And so it is, to the point to which he has carried it thus far. One more volume at least is promised in the near future; while it is to be hoped that subsequent contributions may ultimately appear. "From …


Witnesses--When Interpreters May Be Used Nov 1925

Witnesses--When Interpreters May Be Used

Michigan Law Review

A novel situation in regard to the use of interpreters was presented in People v. Walker (Cal. App. 1924) 231 Pac. 572. The prosecution called a witness who was brought in in a crippled and weak condition. He was asked questions, but "the witness could give forth no sound, not even a whisper, by means of the organs of Speech." While the record was not clear whether there was any movement of his lips whatever, at least there was none which conveyed to any person but his wife the impression that he attempted to put forth articulate speech in response …


Book Reviews Nov 1925

Book Reviews

Michigan Law Review

A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.


Recent Important Decisions Nov 1925

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.