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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Nov 1916

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Adjoining Landowners-Lateral Support.-Defendant was sued for injuries to plaintiff's dwelling on an adjoining lot caused by defendant's having -excavated on his lot after having given plaintiff notice of the intended excavation. Held, defendant, after having given plaintiff reasonable notice of 'the intended excavation, was not liable for injuries to plaintiff's building which resulted from defendant's "ordinarily careful excavation of his own lot:' Vandegrift, et al. v. Boward (Md. I916), 98 AtI. 528.


Game Protection And The Constitution, Edward S. Corwin Jun 1916

Game Protection And The Constitution, Edward S. Corwin

Michigan Law Review

The Agricultural Department Appropriation Act of March 4, 1913, contains these provisions: "All wild geese, wild swans, brant, wild ducks, snipe, plover, woodcock, rail, wild pigeons, and all other migratory game and insectivorous birds which in their northern and southern migrations pass through or do not remain permanently the entire year within the borders of any state or territory, shall hereafter be deemed to be within the custody and protection of the government of the United States, and shall not be destroyed or taken contrary to regulations hereinafter provided therefor."


Liability Of The Carrier To Passengers For Injuries By Its Servants, Renville Wheat Jun 1916

Liability Of The Carrier To Passengers For Injuries By Its Servants, Renville Wheat

Michigan Law Review

With the unprecedented development of the means' of transportation in the early nineteenth century, and the increased use of the corporate form of ownership and control of these means, the inadequacy of the familiar rule of law, respondeat superior, as a protection to the travelling public from the torts of the carrier's servants was recognized. The majority of courts applied with the utmost rigor a test which determined the master's liability by considering whether the act complained of was within the scope of the servant's authority. Some few courts said that the liability depended rather upon whether the act was …


Tax Exemptions Of American Church Property, Carl Zollmann Jun 1916

Tax Exemptions Of American Church Property, Carl Zollmann

Michigan Law Review

The exemption from taxation of public property in the various states of the Union rests on reason and presents no difficulty. If a state were to tax its own property or the property of the counties, cities, towns and villages created by it, the burden of the ultimate taxpayer would not be lightened in the least. Since such property is not only acquired but also maintained at public expense the money necessary for this purpose must in any case be ultimately paid by the owners of private property. An attempt to tax public property would only make the bookkeeping of …


Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, Edgar N. Durfee, Werner W. Schroeder, Arthur A. Morrow, Harry B. Sutter, Russell H. Neilson Jun 1916

Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, Edgar N. Durfee, Werner W. Schroeder, Arthur A. Morrow, Harry B. Sutter, Russell H. Neilson

Michigan Law Review

Estates in Fee Tail - Quite generally estates in fee tail under the STATUTE DE DONIS were recognized by the states as a part of the common law. Statutory provisions in the way of modification and abolishment of such estates, however, are very common. The nature and scope of the statutory provisions have varied. See the states classified according to the character of the legislation in BREWSTER, CONVEYANCING, § § 142, 143.


Reception Of The Roman Law In Germany, Charles Sumner Lbingier May 1916

Reception Of The Roman Law In Germany, Charles Sumner Lbingier

Michigan Law Review

As in other countries. it was the universities which prepared the way for the Reception of Roman Law in Germany. Many of those great institutions which still .lead the world in learning date from about the middle of the thirteenth century, and instruction in foreign law was offered from the beginning. At first the emphasis was placed on the Canon law -but chairs of Roman law were established at Heidelberg in 1387, at Basel in 146o, at Ingolstadt in 1472, at Tfibingen in 1477, at Freiburg in 1479, at Vienna in 1493 and at Greifswald in 1498, and were filled …


Status Of The Philippines, George A. Malcolm May 1916

Status Of The Philippines, George A. Malcolm

Michigan Law Review

The mainland included within the boundaries of the United, States proper is now made up of States, and of the District of Columbia, specially created for the national capital. Outside of this compact territory are other units, not States, related in. some manner to the national government.


Note And Comment, Evans Holbrook, Myron Mclaren, Walter F. Whitman May 1916

Note And Comment, Evans Holbrook, Myron Mclaren, Walter F. Whitman

Michigan Law Review

The Death of President Angell - The death of Dr. James Burrill ANGELL, president-emeritus of the university, has deprived the law school of a sympathetic and helpful friend. Such was the catholicity of Dr. ANGL'S mind and his intellectual interests that probably all departments of the university felt and had good reason to feel that he was in some special sense the interested friend of each.


Recent Important Decisions; Book Reviews, Edwin C. Goddard, John R. Rood May 1916

Recent Important Decisions; Book Reviews, Edwin C. Goddard, John R. Rood

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions and book reviews.


Recent Important Decisions Apr 1916

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


Power Of The President Over Foreign Affairs, Allen Welsh Dulles Apr 1916

Power Of The President Over Foreign Affairs, Allen Welsh Dulles

Michigan Law Review

In a recent article former Assistant Attorney General James M. Beck challenges the constitutionality of the measures which President Wilson has taken in the carrying out of the foreign affairs policy of this government. While his criticism is especially directed against the action of the President in appointing such confidential agents as John Lind and Colonel House without the consent of the Senate, he makes the sweeping assertion that the President must share the general control of foreign affairs with the Senate. Mr. Beck's position is clearly shown in the following quotations from his article: "Those provisions of the Constitution …


Note And Comment, John B. Waite, Thomas H. Westlake, William C. Mullendore, Harry B. Sutter Apr 1916

Note And Comment, John B. Waite, Thomas H. Westlake, William C. Mullendore, Harry B. Sutter

Michigan Law Review

Dean Pound Harvard has honored itself in the appointment of Roscoe POUND to the deanship of its law school


Inquiry Concerning Justice, Floyd R. Mechem Mar 1916

Inquiry Concerning Justice, Floyd R. Mechem

Michigan Law Review

Justice, said Daniel Webster, "is the greatest interest of man on earth." Alexander Hamilton, in the Federalist, declared "Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It has ever been, and ever will be, pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit."


Church Cemeteries In The American Law, Carl Zollmann Mar 1916

Church Cemeteries In The American Law, Carl Zollmann

Michigan Law Review

One of the most usual sights in any rural community in the United States is a church edifice with a cemetery in the immediate neighborhood. This condition of affairs, where a church society antedates the municipal corporation within whose limits it exists, can even occasionally be found in populous cities. Such cases, however, are fast disappearing. The demands of commerce and the doctrines of modern sanitation are too strong to be resisted. When a cemetery situated in the heart of a city is not abandoned on account of the monetary inducements held out by commercial interests, the law-making power of …


Recent Important Decisions Mar 1916

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


Book Reviews, Willard Barbour, John R. Rood, John B. Waite Mar 1916

Book Reviews, Willard Barbour, John R. Rood, John B. Waite

Michigan Law Review

A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.


Note And Comment, John B. Waite, Werner W. Schroeder, Russell H. Neilson, Harry L. Bell, Walter F. Whitman, C E. Eldridge Feb 1916

Note And Comment, John B. Waite, Werner W. Schroeder, Russell H. Neilson, Harry L. Bell, Walter F. Whitman, C E. Eldridge

Michigan Law Review

Recovery of the Purchase Price Before Title Has Passed - In an action recently instituted' by The General Electric Co. to recover on a contract to manufacture certain machinery for the defendant, which machinery the defendant had refused to accept, the trial court adopted the contract price as the measure of damages. The upper court approved this measure of damages, rejecting the argument that the measure should have been the difference between the market value and the contract price, and dismissed, as no longer appropriate to modern conditions, the decisions in Bement v. Smith, 15 Wend. (N. Y.) 493, and …


Courts In The Philippines Old New, David Cecil Johnson Feb 1916

Courts In The Philippines Old New, David Cecil Johnson

Michigan Law Review

Administration of justice, involving the settlement of disputes and the punishment of crime, is and always has been a vital function of government; in fact, it might well be said to be the basis of all orderly government. The experiment in government which was begun by the American people when they separated themselves from the domination of England reached a new stage in its development when Admiral Dewey was victorious in Manila Bay on May i, 1898. It is perhaps impossible to determine at this time whether this new stage is to result in an attempt at colonization or in …


Charter Amending Powers Of Cities Under Michigan Home-Rule Legislation, Robert R. Jacobson Feb 1916

Charter Amending Powers Of Cities Under Michigan Home-Rule Legislation, Robert R. Jacobson

Michigan Law Review

The recent development in Michigan of the idea of home-rule for cities and villages makes the relation of municipal to state government there a matter of particular interest at the present time. The constitution of 1908 provided that the legislature should pass general laws giving to cities and villages the power to construct their own charters.1 The next two assemblies both attempted to frame statutes in accord with this general provision, 2 but the decisions of the Supreme Court in a number of important cases showed that these acts failed of their purpose. Having found that under the constitution as …


Recent Important Decisions Feb 1916

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


Recent Important Decisions Jan 1916

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


Note And Comment, John R. Rood, Henry M. Bates, Werner W. Schroeder, Robert E. Richardson, Hollace M. Reid Jan 1916

Note And Comment, John R. Rood, Henry M. Bates, Werner W. Schroeder, Robert E. Richardson, Hollace M. Reid

Michigan Law Review

Can a Manufacturer be Compelled to Sell? - The fight for price maintenance is not yet completely settled, despite, the decisions in Dr. Miles Medical Company v. Parks & Sois Company, and Baiter & Cie v. O'Donnell, which held invalid contracts, whether nominally of agency, or of sale, between manufacturer and wholesaler or jobber whereby the latter in purchasing agreed himself to maintain and to sell only to others who would maintain a schedule of prices established by the manufacturer. But there are more ways than one of maintaining prices. One of these is to refuse to sell to persons …


Qualified Martial Law A Legislative Proposal, Henry Winthrop Ballantine Jan 1916

Qualified Martial Law A Legislative Proposal, Henry Winthrop Ballantine

Michigan Law Review

In considering the powers and liabilities of the military in dealing with the citizen, the question of what a subordinate is to do when confronted by a conflict between the law and military orders is a difficult and interesting one. Sections 15 and 16 of the Code (the draft of which is submitted herewith), deal with illegal orders. The general rule is that persons engaged in the military service of the state or nation can find no justification in the illegal orders of a superior officer if such orders are so manifestly illegal that a man of ordinary sense could …


Equity In Rem, Edgar N. Durfee Jan 1916

Equity In Rem, Edgar N. Durfee

Michigan Law Review

Perhaps the most important legal publication of the past year is a monograph, by Charles Andrews Huston, which is published as the first volume of Harvard Studies in jurisprudence. It is inscribed as a dissertation submitted to the faculty of Harvard Law School in compliance with the terms of the Research Scholarship, and is dedicated to Roscoe Pound, to whom, the author tells us in his preface, he is indebted for the suggestion of the field of investigation, for constant inspiration, and for concrete suggestion and criticism.


Law Of Percolating Waters, Jno B. Clayberg Dec 1915

Law Of Percolating Waters, Jno B. Clayberg

Michigan Law Review

Percolating waters are well understood as being underground waters. Underground waters have been from time immemorial divided into two general classes, namely: (a) flowing stream's, and (b) percolating waters. Percolating waters are divided by text writers into several distinct classes. No two text writers seem to have adopted the same classification. Such classifications are all more or less unimportant insofar as the application of the law is concerned. There cannot be any difference between percolating water which is diffuse and percolating water which reaches the channel of a stream or its sub-flow. All percolating water, unless detained by some natural …


Civil Law And The Common Law A World Survey, R W. Lee Dec 1915

Civil Law And The Common Law A World Survey, R W. Lee

Michigan Law Review

In universities and other seats of learning, where men devote themselves to the pursuit of truth, certain great events or movements in the world's history claim attention as essentially and always proper subjects of investigation. Whatever the future may bring, we can hardly suppose a time when the art of Greece, the literature of England, the religions of the East will not be studied. Nor before an assembly of lawyers is it necessary to urge the claims of a great system of law as a subject which may well engage the amplest resources of the human intellect. For many centuries …


Qualified Martial Law A Legislative Proposal, Henry Winthrop Ballantine Dec 1915

Qualified Martial Law A Legislative Proposal, Henry Winthrop Ballantine

Michigan Law Review

When it is considered that there has been scarcely a year since the beginning of the Government that the Army has not been called upon to quell disturbances too great for the state authorities to handle; and that during the last thirty-five years the state troops have been called out more than five hundred times, the extent to which we are dependent upon the military are as a police force may be better realized.


Note And Comment, Gordon Stoner, Edgar N. Durfee, Werner W. Schroeder, Albert J. Mickelson, Maurice Weinberger Dec 1915

Note And Comment, Gordon Stoner, Edgar N. Durfee, Werner W. Schroeder, Albert J. Mickelson, Maurice Weinberger

Michigan Law Review

The Form of the Summons Under the Recent Michigan Judicature Act - It would be rather remarkable if in revising such a large portion of the statutes as was undertaken by the Commission on Revision and Consolidation of Statutes of the State of Michigan, appointed in 1913, which reported to the legislature the recently enacted Judicature Act (Public Acts of Michigan, 915, § 314), some ambiguity or uncertainty were not to appear in the revision. The Judicature Act is no exception to the general rule, as the lawyer who attempts to begin suit by summons under it will discover at …


Recent Important Decisions Dec 1915

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


Nature Of American Religious Corporations, Carl Zollman Nov 1915

Nature Of American Religious Corporations, Carl Zollman

Michigan Law Review

From the earliest period of our history it has been recognized that corporate existence and capacity is desirable if not indispensable in order to carry on the affairs of the various church societies in the most efficient manner. Accordingly various forms of religious corporations have been developed. Of these the earliest, namely the territorial parish and the corporation sole, grew out of the then existing union of church and state. They were public municipal corporations and passed away with the system which had given them birth. Their place was taken by other church corporations of which there are three principal …