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Corporate Earnings As Gains Profits And Income As Depending Upon The Time Of Their Accrual, Robert M. Drysdale, Maurice C. Mcgiffin Feb 1918

Corporate Earnings As Gains Profits And Income As Depending Upon The Time Of Their Accrual, Robert M. Drysdale, Maurice C. Mcgiffin

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The discussion here has to do with the earnings of corporations as taxable income, whether such earnings remain in the hands of the corporation accumulating them, or are distributed to the stockholders as dividends, the inquiry being limited, however, to the question of the time of their accrual as affecting their taxability.


Note And Comment, Henry M. Bates, Ralph W. Aigler, James William Thomas, John B. Waite, Charles Lott Kaufmann Jan 1918

Note And Comment, Henry M. Bates, Ralph W. Aigler, James William Thomas, John B. Waite, Charles Lott Kaufmann

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Power of the US Supreme Court to Enforce Judgments Against States - In the year 1460, when the perogatives of sovereignty or at least of the Crown were asserted in England much more vigorously than they are today, "the Counseill of the right high and mighty Prynce Richard Duc of York, brought into the Parliament Chambre a writyng conteignyng the clayme and title of the right, that the seid Duc pretended unto the Corones of Englond and of Fraunce, and Lordship of Trelond, and the same writyng delyvered to the Right Reverent Fader in God George Bishop of Excestre, Chaunceller …


Law Of Blasphemy, Robert Warden Lee Jan 1918

Law Of Blasphemy, Robert Warden Lee

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Is Christianity part of the Law of England? It would seem that if it ever was so, it is so no longer. Such at least is the conclusion which Austin's "simple-minded layman" will undoubtedly draw from the recent decision of the House of Lords in Bowman v. The Secular Society, Limited, [1917] A. C. 4o6. The lawyer who recognizes that such phrases as the above can have little or no value in legal science will be more concerned to note the unanimous determination of the final court of appeal in Great Britain in favor of the view of the law …


Book Reviews, Willard Barbour, Horace L. Wilgus, Edwin C. Goddard, Robert T. Crane, Joseph H. Drake Jan 1918

Book Reviews, Willard Barbour, Horace L. Wilgus, Edwin C. Goddard, Robert T. Crane, Joseph H. Drake

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Science and Learning in France. With a Survey of Opportunities for American Students in French Universities. An Appreciation by American Scholars. The Society for American Fellowships in France, 1917; PP. xxxviii, 454.


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jan 1918

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

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Animals - Injuries by Animals at Large - In an action for damages for injuries sustained by the kick of a horse, the petition alleged that for many days the defendant carelessly and negligently permitted a horse owned by him to run loose on the streets unattended, and that the plaintiff while playing about was kicked by the horse. On demurrer, held, no cause of action stated because no allegation that the owner knew the horse was vicious. Brady v. Str.aub, (Ky. Ct. of App. 1917), 197 S. W. 938.


Stock Dividends As Income, Robert E. More Jan 1918

Stock Dividends As Income, Robert E. More

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In the case of Towne v. Eisner, the United States Supreme Court has recently held that under the Income Tax Law of 1913, the stock dividends received by a shareholder during the year 1914 could not be taxed upon their full par value, where the corporate surplus thus distributed all accrued prior to January I, 1913. The Treasury Department subsequently announced that the decision is not applicable to the Income Tax Law of 1916.1 It is the purpose of this article to review the case of Towvne v. Eisner,2 and then to discuss the soundness of the position taken by …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jan 1918

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

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Bailment - Artisan's Lien - Selling Automobile Tires - Appellee sought to enforce a lien on three touring cars for the price of eight casings sold and fitted on them by him. No charge was made for taking off the old casings and putting on the new ones. The lien was based on the statute giving a lien to wheelwrights who performed work and labor on carriages, wagons, farm irhplements, and other articles for such work and labor, and for all materials furnished by them and used in such product or repairs. AcTs or ARKANSAS, i903, p. 26o. Held, (one …


Book Reviews, Frank Egleston Robbins, Willard Barbour, Joseph H. Drake, Ralph W. Aigler, Edwin C. Goddard, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, John B. Waite, John R. Rood Dec 1917

Book Reviews, Frank Egleston Robbins, Willard Barbour, Joseph H. Drake, Ralph W. Aigler, Edwin C. Goddard, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, John B. Waite, John R. Rood

Michigan Law Review

Professor Husband's book deals with two problems, the date of the trial and crucifixion of Jesus, and the legal aspects of the proceedings against him. In both divisions of the subject his conclusions are novel and are supported by able argumentation.


War And Law, Charles H. Hamill Nov 1917

War And Law, Charles H. Hamill

Michigan Law Review

Law creates rights. It not merely defines them; it creates them. Without law, one may what he can. With law, one can only that which he may. Law is the device by which the many, individually weak, control and compel the few individually strong or cunning. It is a device by which is reduced nature's handicap in favor of the physically strong and ruthless. Where law obtains, those who are fitted to the system created by the law, as the economically efficient, prevail and survive. In the absence of law, only the strong and cunning can survive.


New Law Of Nations, Joseph Kohler Jun 1917

New Law Of Nations, Joseph Kohler

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If the article upon the New Law of Nations had been written by an obscure man for a sensational periodical, it would not have been worthy of serious consideration. It appeared in September, 1915, however, in the ZEITSCHRIFT FUR V6LKERRECHT, generally reputed to be the leading periodical devoted to international law, published in the German language. Its author, Dr. JOsEF Ko.HLER, is generally conceded to be the most distinguished living German jurist. His PHILOSOPHY OF LAW was deemed worthy of translation into English and appeared as Volume 12 of the Modern Legal Philosophy Series.' Dean Roscog POUND has referred.to him …


Forms Of Anglo Saxon Contracts And Their Sanctions, Robert L. Henry Jr Jun 1917

Forms Of Anglo Saxon Contracts And Their Sanctions, Robert L. Henry Jr

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Including (a) Warranty of Title, and (b) Warranty of Quality. Perhaps the most primitive commercial transaction affecting legal rights was the executed barter; in a more 'advanced state when money had been introduced, the executed sale.


Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, John B. Waite, Eugene B. Hewitt Jun 1917

Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, John B. Waite, Eugene B. Hewitt

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State Legislation Extending to Navigable Waters - In Southern Pacific Company v. Jensen, 37 Sup. Ct. -, decided May 21, 1917, the Supreme Court announces a decision in some respects of far reaching importance. It was held therein, Mr. Justice HOL.Es dissenting, that the WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION AcT of the State of New York did not support an award to the widow and children of a workman killed on board a ship of the' Company while at the pier in New York City. Clearly the terms of the New York act covered the case, unless the fact that the accident occurred …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jun 1917

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

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Criminal Law - Directed Verdict of Acquittal - The accused was convicted of crime. Error was assigned upon the refusal of the court to direct a verdict of not guilty. Held, that a motion to direct a verdict of acquittal should never be entertained. People i% Zurek (Ill. 1917), uS N. E. 644


Book Reviews, Gordon Stoner, Michigan Law Review, James H. Brewster Jun 1917

Book Reviews, Gordon Stoner, Michigan Law Review, James H. Brewster

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This is an admirable book for the use of students in any properly organized law'school; that is, a school possessing an instructor able to so develop the subject of Titles to Real Property as neither to confuse the student with a mass of historical- detail, nor, on the other hand, to lead him to believe that in considering the modern law of. Real Property -he may ignore *ihat is obsolete in. practice. The book can well be used, as the editor seems to have intended it-to be used, as, "the basis of the- beginning course in Property" Both the arrangement …


Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, John B. Waite, William L. Owen, Samuel D. Frankel May 1917

Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, John B. Waite, William L. Owen, Samuel D. Frankel

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Necessity of Valid Contract to Support Escrow - In Foulkes V. Sengstqcken, (Ore. 1917) 163 Pac. 311, it is said that "A pure escrow presupposes the existence of a valid contract with sufficient parties, a proper subject matter, and a consideration. There must be an actual contract of sale on the one side and of purchase on the other, afid until there is such a contract, the instrument executed by the supposed grantor, though in form a deed, is neither a deed nor an escrow." Accordingly it was held that performance of conditions by a grantee after the grantor had …


English Law Courts At The Close Of The Revolution Of 1688, Arthur L. Cross May 1917

English Law Courts At The Close Of The Revolution Of 1688, Arthur L. Cross

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In view of the part which the judges played for a4d against the first two STUARTS, and in view of the grievances of the subject under the law as administered in the ordinary courts 2 -to say nothing of the Star Chamber and the High Commission-it was to be expected that, in the great political and religious upheaval resulting from the Puritan Revolution and the ensuing Civil War, the legal edifice could not remain unshaken. As is well known, one of the early acts of the Long Parliament, in the summer of 1641, was to ab6lish the Star Chambei, the …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review May 1917

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

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Bankruptcy - Appointment of Receiver as Act of Bankruptcy - An insolvent corporation, against which a creditors' suit was brought in the state court, procured the appointment of a receiver therein by an answer and cross bill in the name of its president, who was a defendant, and who with one other stockholder owned the majority of the stock and controlled the corporation. Held, that the corporation applied for the appointment of a receiver within the meaning of §3a(4) of the BANKRUPTcY AcT, making such application, while insolvent, an act of bankruptcy; it being unnecessary that the application be by …


Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review, Thomas E. Atkinson, John R. Rood, Haddon S. Kirk, Harry G. Gault, William L. Owen, Harry J. Connine Apr 1917

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

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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.


Interpretation Of The Eleventh Amendment, Leroy G. Pilling Apr 1917

Interpretation Of The Eleventh Amendment, Leroy G. Pilling

Michigan Law Review

The American Constitution may be compared to an organism with a high nervous development that enables it to adapt itself to changes. in its environment or even to new environments. As such an organism is the result of evolution, so is our Federal Constitution the product of centuries of human experience in the science of government. Probably most of the great political philosophers of all ages have donated their mite to the finished product. To MONTESQUIEU we owe in part, at least, our constitutional doctrine of the separation of powers.


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Apr 1917

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

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Assignments - Transfer of Expectancy - A, the apparent heir of his mother, executed a warranty deed conveying to defendants his expectancy in the realty of his mother. He died during her life, and after her death his children bring suit to have the deed cancelled as a cloud on their title. Held, that the relief prayed should be granted on the ground that the complainants were not bound by the warranty of the father, as they did not take as his heirs, but as the heirs of their grandmother, only tracing relationship through the father. Johnson v. Breeding (Tenn. …


The Ohio "Blue Sky" Cases, Clarence D. Laylin Mar 1917

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.


Note And Comment, Edson R. Sunderland, Ralph W. Aigler, Wayland H. Sanford, William L. Owen, Eugene B. Houseman Mar 1917

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

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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 …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Mar 1917

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

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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 …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Feb 1917

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

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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.


Extension Of Judicial Review In New York, Edward S. Corwin Feb 1917

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, …


Changing Legal Order, Floyd R. Mechem Jan 1917

Changing Legal Order, Floyd R. Mechem

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I must, I suppose, be considered a dull age which does not have its loyal chronicler who arises to affirm that it is the greatest and most important age in the history of the world. There have been many great periods. Some of them doubtless antedate historic times. Many of these ages doubtless were unconscious of their own importance. Picture to yourself the time when primitive man first learned to make and control a fire. How it differentiated him from all other animals! Not even yet, so far as I am aware, does even the most advanced non-human animal build …


Note And Comment, John B. Waite, Samuel D. Frankel, Melville C. Mason Jan 1917

Note And Comment, John B. Waite, Samuel D. Frankel, Melville C. Mason

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The Death of Professor Knowlton - The loss to the Law School and to his colleagues of the law faculty in the death of Jerome Cyril Knowlton cannot be expressed. For thirty-one years, the longest period of active service ever given by any man to this Law School, Mr. Knowlton was an effective factor in the development of the institution and in the moulding of the character and the legal ideas and ideals of the thousands of graduates who have passed through the Law School into the service of community and state and country, at the bar, upon the bench, …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jan 1917

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

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Attorney and Client - Attorney's Charging Lien - Having agreed by contract to pay his attorney fifty percent of the proceeds recovered, the client, while suit was pending, and without the consent of his attorney, settled with the defendant for $3o. The attorney then gave notice of his claim to the defendant, and the district court, after hearing the case, gave judgment to the plaintiff attorney for $1oo. There was a statute (N. J. LAWS OF 1914, ch. 201, p. 410) which gave a lien to an attorney on the proceeds of a settlement out of court. Held, the action …


Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, Harry G. Gault, Thomas E. Atkinson, Harry R. Hewitt Dec 1916

Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, Harry G. Gault, Thomas E. Atkinson, Harry R. Hewitt

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Special Assessments Upon Cemetaries - Though the power to tax cemeteries would seem to be'entirely clear, very commonly land devoted to such purpose is declared by constitution or statute to be exempt. See CooLY, TAxATION, (3rd ed.) 354. So also in the case of special assessments such land, in the absence of a clear exemption, is liable thereto. Bloomington Cemetery Assoc. v. People, i39 IIl. 16, 28 N. E. io76; Mullins v. Cemetery Assoc., 239 Mo. 681, i44 S. W. iog; Buffalo City Cemetery v. Buffalo, 46 N. Y. 5o3; Lima v. Lima Cemetery Assoc., 42 Oh. St. 128, 5! …


The Attaint, John M. Zane Dec 1916

The Attaint, John M. Zane

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The assize of novel disseisinoriginally lay against the disseisor in possession in favor of the disseisee, and was soon extended to the heir of -the disseisee, but not against the heir or grantee of the disseisor. But the disseisor might be dead or might have conveyed the land, and in such a case the disseisee would be driven to the writ of right with iis delays and chance of battle. But the cases where the defendant had come into possession under a lawful title which was limited in time and had ceased to exist, i.. e., cases where there was …