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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Dec 1920

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Animals - Knowledge of Vicious Propensity - Owner not Liable for Dog Upsetting Ford - The defendant's dog had been in the habit of following and barking at automobiles, and this fact was known to the defendant. The plaintiff was riding with her husband in a Ford car, when suddenly the defendant's dog jumped in front of them. By running over the dog, the car was thrown against an embankment and the plaintiff was injured. Held, that the plaintiff was not entitled to recover, there being no evidence of a vicious propensity in the dog. Melicker v. Sedlacek (Iowa, i92o), …


Constitutional Law In 1919-1920, Thomas Reed Powell Nov 1920

Constitutional Law In 1919-1920, Thomas Reed Powell

Michigan Law Review

This review aims to include all the decisions on constitutional questions rendered by the Supreme'Court of the United States during the October Term of court which began in October, i919, and ended in June, i92o.1 The treatment for the most part contents itself with exposition. The footnotes give references to articles and editorial notes in recognized law journals commenting on the cases here reviewed and on the more important constitutional decisions of other courts.2 The classification of the cases and the arrangement of topics are not satisfactory, but no alternative seems distinctly superior. A classification on the basis of the …


Plurality Of Advantage And Disadvantage In Jural Relations, Albert Kocourek Nov 1920

Plurality Of Advantage And Disadvantage In Jural Relations, Albert Kocourek

Michigan Law Review

A recent writer has inveighed, not without some declamation, against the use of rhetoric in the field of law-making.1 But rhetoric finds a place, and often an unprofitable one, not only in legislation, but even in technical legal analysis. Metonymy (change of name) has often been pointed out. When we say that X is the owner of blackacre, what we mean is that X has certain legal advantages concerning blackacre; in other words, that X is the holder or dominus of claims (rights) and powers concerning certain land. Synecdoche (saying more or less than i' meant) is very commonly found; …


Interest On Claims In Receivership Proceedings, Ralph E. Clark Nov 1920

Interest On Claims In Receivership Proceedings, Ralph E. Clark

Michigan Law Review

Outside the cases of receivership, the Supreme Court of the United States has said: "We reach the conclusion that whatever may have been the English and early American rule, the tendency in Virginia as elsewhere in this country, is to allow interest on contracts to pay money from the date that the debt becomes due."'


Note And Comment, Alan W. Boyd, Edson R. Sunderland, Edwin C. Goddard, Edgar N. Durfee, Ralph W. Aigler Nov 1920

Note And Comment, Alan W. Boyd, Edson R. Sunderland, Edwin C. Goddard, Edgar N. Durfee, Ralph W. Aigler

Michigan Law Review

James H. Brewster - Thousands of alumni and former students of the Law School will learn with deep regret of the sudden death of Professor Brewster in Denver, Colorado, on October 7, 1920.


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Nov 1920

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Adoption - Right to Inherit from Foster Parents Not Lost by Readoption by Natural Father - In an adopted child's action against the natural children of foster parents and their assigns for the partition of real estate, where it appeared that the child had been re-adopted by the natural father, and where it appeared that she had stood by while the natural children sold the property to the co-defendants, it was held that the right to inherit from the foster parents was not lost by the readoption by the natural father and that she was nct estopped to assert her …


Constitution Of The Empire Of Japan, George A. Malcolm Nov 1920

Constitution Of The Empire Of Japan, George A. Malcolm

Michigan Law Review

In the history of the Japanese people, five dates stand out above all others. They are 66o B. 'C., when, according to legendary account, the Empire of Japan was founded .by the Emperor Jinmu; 1853, when Commodore Perry, with an American squadron, anchored offside what is now Yokohama and caused the opening of Japan to foreign intercourse; 1867-1868, when there was a restoration'of the monarchy, marking the beginning of the Meiji Era of Constitutionalism; and 1889, when the Constitution of Japan was promulgated.


Book Reviews, Edgar N. Durfee, Evans Holbrook, Edwin D. Dickinson Jun 1920

Book Reviews, Edgar N. Durfee, Evans Holbrook, Edwin D. Dickinson

Michigan Law Review

Equity, an Analysis of Modern Equity Problems Designed Primarily for Students. George L. Clark, SJ.D., Professor of Law, University of Missouri. E. W. Stephens Publishing Co., Columbia, Mo., igig. Pp. lii, 639.


Salient Points In The German Constitution Of 1919, Simeon E. Baldwin Jun 1920

Salient Points In The German Constitution Of 1919, Simeon E. Baldwin

Michigan Law Review

The German Constitution of i919 is the production of the right wing of those belonging to the party known as the Social Democrats, and until the fall of the empire commonly called the International Socialist ,Party.


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jun 1920

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bills and Notes - "Fictitious Payee" - Payee a Person Not Intended to Have Any Interest - A member of a firm, authorized to sign the firm's name, made checks payable to an existing association, which he did not intend should ever gain possession of or have any interest in such checks, merely for the purpose of obtaining money for himself, which he did by unlawfully indorsing the association's name to the checks. The plaintiff firm now seek to recover the amount of the checks, charged to their account by the defendant bank, and the defense is that the payee …


Development Of The Doctrine Of Impossibility Of Performance, William Herbert Page May 1920

Development Of The Doctrine Of Impossibility Of Performance, William Herbert Page

Michigan Law Review

In common with other systems of law, Anglo-American law has grown in part by the use of analogies; and in part, by receptions from other systems of law.


Freedom Of Speech And Of The Press In The Federalist Period The Sedition Act, Thomas F. Carroll May 1920

Freedom Of Speech And Of The Press In The Federalist Period The Sedition Act, Thomas F. Carroll

Michigan Law Review

The constitutional problem to which the Espionage Act of 1917 gave rise is almost as old as the Government itself. As early as 1798 the constitutional authority of the Government over speech ,and the press was called into question. The controversy caused by the Sedition Act of that date forms the subject of this paper.


Law Of Oil And Gas, James A. Veasey May 1920

Law Of Oil And Gas, James A. Veasey

Michigan Law Review

The questions heretofore considered are general in their scope, and were treated for the purpose of providing a background for the more intensive study upon which we must now enter. While commentators refer to this branch of jurisprudence as the "Law of Oil and Gas," it is more exact to say that .we are dealing with the law pertaining to oil and gas leases. This is true because the oil and gas lease characterizes and distinguishes the subject throughout. For reasons which inhere in the very nature of the business a lease yielding the lessor a royalty on the quantity …


Power Of Congress To Declare Peace, Edward S. Corwin May 1920

Power Of Congress To Declare Peace, Edward S. Corwin

Michigan Law Review

In the course of the discussion which has been aroused in Congress by the proposal to declare hostilities with Germany at an end by joint resolution, Senator Thomas of Colorado has brought forward evidence showing that on one occasion the Convention which framed the Constitution voted down unanimously a motion to vest Congress with the power to "make peace." This evidence is good so far as it goes, but it does not support all of Senator Thomas's deductions from it, nor indeed has he given an altogether complete account of it. The proposal in question was made and rejected by …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review May 1920

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Adverse Possession - Color of Title - Deed Color of Title Although Known not to Convey Title - In a suit for trespass the land which the plaintiff claimed to own was in part occupied by plaintiff's church building and the adjoining lot was used by the members of the church for hitching iheir horses and for picnics, etc. Both tracts had been so used by the plaintiff for twenty-five years or more. The land was conveyed by A to plaintiff, by deed recorded, describing the land purported to be conveyed. The defendant claimed that the deed did not operate …


When Are Deeds Testamentary, Henry W. Ballantine Apr 1920

When Are Deeds Testamentary, Henry W. Ballantine

Michigan Law Review

It is no objection to a deed that it is used as a substitute for a will, to avoid the expense and delay of probate proceedings. The frequent litigation arising over such deeds, however, shows that this expedient is a* dangerous one unless the grantor uses great care to avoid certain snares and pitfalls which the law in its wisdom provides for the unwary. The grantor may attempt to accomplish his purpose either by express provisions embodied in the deed itself, or by external, collateral conditions, preserved by the delivery of the deed to a deposifory. This paper will consider …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Apr 1920

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Accretion - Title to New Land - Encroachment of Watercourse Upon Lands Beyond - D's lands were bounded on the east by a river and on the west by the land of P. By erosion the river slowly shifted until all of D's tract was washed away as well as part of P's holding. The river then slowly receded and the land of P was built up as was also new land east of the former boundary of P and D. P brings an action to quiet title for the land newly formed. Held, title to the land in dispute …


Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, John B. White, Grover C. Grismore, Edwin C. Goddard Feb 1920

Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, John B. White, Grover C. Grismore, Edwin C. Goddard

Michigan Law Review

Deeds Delivered Conditionally to the Grantee - Generally courts have shown a commendable disposition to get away from the formalism, which in the past played such a large part in determination of questions of delivery. While the actual tradition of the instrument to the grantee or to someone on his behalf, on the one hand, or its retention in the hands of the maker, on the other, is still very important evidentially, such facts are not by any means controlling. Thus it is entirely possible for a deed to be delivered though it never has been out of the grantor's …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Feb 1920

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Adverse Possession - Tenants in Common - Inception of Hostility - A father died leaving seven children as heirs to his farm. Since 1883, the plaintiff, who was the eldest son. had been in continuous and exclusive Dossession, paying all the taxes and taking all the profits without rendering any account to his co-heirs. Before 1883, the plaintiff had rebuilt the house on the premises, and in xgoi, he built a barn on the place. In a suit to quiet title, it was held, that it was a permissible inference from all the evidence that the plaintiff had gained title …


Book Reviews, Joseph H. Drake Feb 1920

Book Reviews, Joseph H. Drake

Michigan Law Review

The appearance in permanent form of these five lectures, which were first published in the Fortnightly Review in 1878 and i879, will be welcomed by all interested in the history of jurisprudence, since they put forth in most attractive form several of the basic principles of the subject as they were understood by learned English jurists forty years ago. They are reissued in practically unchanged form, with annotations by Professor Lefroy, whose untimely death apparently occurred before the volume was printed, though there is no notice of that sad event in the book itself.


Index, Michigan Law Review Jan 1920

Index, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Index for Volume 19 of Michigan Law Review, including a cumulative Table of Contents for Volume 19 as a whole.


League Of Nations And The Constitution, J M. Matthews Jan 1920

League Of Nations And The Constitution, J M. Matthews

Michigan Law Review

The Covenant for a League of Nations has justly aroused an immense amount of discussion in this country, since it undoubtedly presents to the American nation the most important of the many questions of foreign policy growing out of the Great War. Most of this discussion has dealt with the matter solely from the standpoint of policy or expediency, without noticing the interesting constitutional questions involved. When the Covenant has, on occasion, been considered from the constitutional point of view, such corsideration has generally been merely incidental and the writer's or speaker's views as to the desirability of subscribing to …


Book Reviews, Henry M. Bates, Ernest F. Lloyd Jan 1920

Book Reviews, Henry M. Bates, Ernest F. Lloyd

Michigan Law Review

Constitutional Power and World Affairs, Columbia University Lectures, on the George Blumenthal Foundation, for i918, by George Sutherland. New York, Columbia University Press, 1019, pp. vii, 202. This book is one of the most interesting and thoughtful commentaries on certain phases of our Constitution which has appeared in many years. During his two terms in the United States Senate Mr. Sutherland came to be recognized as one of the ablest constitutional lawyers of the country, and his retirement in 1917 was a distinct loss to our public life. The present book is the product not only of exact, scholarly study …


Copyright And Morals, Edward S. Rogers Jan 1920

Copyright And Morals, Edward S. Rogers

Michigan Law Review

The basis for national copyright legislation in this country is Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution: "The Congress shall have power * * * to promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to authors and inventors, the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries."


Administrative Legislation, John A. Fairlie Jan 1920

Administrative Legislation, John A. Fairlie

Michigan Law Review

Few people are aware of the great extent to which public administration in the United States national government is controlled by means of administrative regulations or orders, in the nature of subordinate legislation. Most writers on American government have emphasized the greater detail of statutory legislation in this country as compared with the statutes of continental countries in Europe, or even with Acts of Parliament in Great Britain, and have under-estimated, and indeed have usually ignored entirely, the enormous mass of administrative legislation supplementing Acts of Congress, and issued by the President and the various executive departments, bureaus, commissions. and …


Note And Comment, Joseph H. Drake, Grover C. Grismore, Victor H. Lane, Edgar N. Durfee, Robert G. Day Jan 1920

Note And Comment, Joseph H. Drake, Grover C. Grismore, Victor H. Lane, Edgar N. Durfee, Robert G. Day

Michigan Law Review

Epithetical Jurisprudence and the Annexation of Fixtures - If we begin with all the facts of a controversy and proceed inductively to determine the rights of the parties litigant, we thus arrive at a jurisprudence of rights, whereas, if we reason deductively from a rule, a definition, or a maxim of law to its application in the facts of our case, we can at best attain only a jurisprudence of rules, which has been so aptly characterized as an epithetical jurisprudence. The subject of fixtures is one in which we have great difficulty in applying the inductive method because the …


Note And Comment, Edwin C. Goddard, Victor H. Lane Jan 1920

Note And Comment, Edwin C. Goddard, Victor H. Lane

Michigan Law Review

Public Utility Valuation - Cost of Reproduction Theory and the World War - The very grave objections to the cost-of-reproduction theory of valuation of public utilities was pointed out at large in 15 MICH. L. REv. 2o5. The violent price changes following the World War have greatly increased the weight of these objections to calling anything a base which rests on such uncertainties and fluctuations as cost-of-reproduction. A base should be stable, but this has the stability Of a flying machine. There had been a rising curve of costs from 1893 to 1i16, but since that date the rise has …


Tyranny Of The Taxing Power, Andrew A. Bruce Jan 1920

Tyranny Of The Taxing Power, Andrew A. Bruce

Michigan Law Review

It has been frequently stated that our constitutions and our courts were made and organized for the protection of capital and of the vested interests. If this be the case, they are manifestly inadequate for their purpose, and the danger of the future is not that capital will be too much protected but that the reckless extravagance of today will continue and be increased, and that our representatives in our city councils, our state legislatures, and our national congress, who depend for their elections upon the votes of the majority who have accumulated little or nothing, will more and more …


Note And Comment, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Joseph H. Drake, Lester E. Waterbury, Louis Kawin, Ralph W. Aigler, Rolla L. Carpenter Jan 1920

Note And Comment, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Joseph H. Drake, Lester E. Waterbury, Louis Kawin, Ralph W. Aigler, Rolla L. Carpenter

Michigan Law Review

Liability of Manufacturer to Remote Vendee for Defective Automobile Wheel - Plaintiff. in February. 19O. purchased from the Utica Motor Car Company, a Cadillac six-passenger touring car, manufactured by the Cadillac Motor Car Company, of Michigan. The Utica company was a dealer in motor cars, and purchased to resell; it was the original vendee, and the plaintiff was the sub-vendee.


Duration And Termination Of An Offer, Herman Oliphant Jan 1920

Duration And Termination Of An Offer, Herman Oliphant

Michigan Law Review

Professor Williston has recently pointed out' the change which the law of the formation of simple contracts underwent during the first century of its development. The change is fundamental. Originally the courts thought of a simple contract as involving an actual concurrence of the minds of the parties. Gradually this conception was supplanted by the notion that the objective and not the subjective state of mind of the parties is controlling. Where the actual state of mind differs from the apparent state of mind, the former must be ignored and, whenever they happen to be identical, it may be ignored …