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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jan 1920

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Acknowledgement - Liability of Notary - Where the defendant, a notary, certified that certain impersonators of the grantors were known to him, and that they were the persons who executed the deeds, and the plaintiff who accepted the deeds as security for a loan in reliance upon the certificate of the notary was defrauded, held, the defendant was guilty of negligence and must respond in damages for not fulfilling the requirements of Sec. i185 of the Civil Code: that "the acknowledgment of an instrument must not be taken, unless the officer taking it knows or has satisfactory evidence, on the …


Book Reviews, Robert T. Crane, Edwin D. Dickinson, Grover C. Grismore, Henry M. Bates, Joseph H. Drake Jan 1920

Book Reviews, Robert T. Crane, Edwin D. Dickinson, Grover C. Grismore, Henry M. Bates, Joseph H. Drake

Michigan Law Review

Among all the writings that have appeared on the problem of preserving the order of world society, the most searching and the most illuminating is Hart's Bulwarks of Peace. Particularly in connection with any consideration of the plan of the Paris Covenant of the League of Nations, it compellingly arrests attention.


Note And Comment, Arvid B. Tanner, Edson R. Sunderland, Edwin D. Dickinson, Ben B. Matthews, Lewis H. Mattern Jan 1920

Note And Comment, Arvid B. Tanner, Edson R. Sunderland, Edwin D. Dickinson, Ben B. Matthews, Lewis H. Mattern

Michigan Law Review

Willard Titus Barbour.- Legal scholarship in America suffered a grievous loss in the death of Willard T. Barbour, Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law in the Yale Law School on March 2, 1920. Indeed it is not too much to say that his loss will be felt wherever the English Common Law holds its sway, for he had dipped deep into the obscured origins of Equity Jurisdiction during his study at Oxford and in London, and was but at the beginning of a series of studies and lectures which would ultimately have developed into a comprehensive book, throwing light not …


Doctrine Of Bad Faith In The Law Of Negotiable Instruments, George W. Rightmire Jan 1920

Doctrine Of Bad Faith In The Law Of Negotiable Instruments, George W. Rightmire

Michigan Law Review

This rule is now enacted in all but two of the states of the United States; the history of its development and of its application since it became undisputed is well illustrative of the process of the common law system, and this discussion is undertaken for the purpose of discovering the general principles which a trial court should have in mind when charging a jury in a case involving the application of this doctrine.


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jan 1920

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Abatement and Revival - Pendency of Another Action Ground for Dismissal - Plaintiff brought an action in B county to recover damages as the result of a collision between his truck and defendants automobile. The defendant had previously brought an action in P county, where he resided, against the plaintiff, for damages arising out of the same collision, which action was pending when the latter was begun. Defendant filed a plea setting up the pendency of his own action in P county and moved to dismiss plaintiff's action. Motion denied. Defendant appealed. Held, the action should have been dismissed. Allen …


Note And Comment, Edwin C. Goddard, Louis Kawin, Robert G. Day Jan 1920

Note And Comment, Edwin C. Goddard, Louis Kawin, Robert G. Day

Michigan Law Review

Escheat - How State Acquires Title - Escheat is of feudal origin, and properly applied only to land which on failure of heirs or for certain other reasons, "fell in" to the lord under whom it had been held. Personal property without an owner, as bona vacantia, became the property of the crown. In re Bond [Igo1] i Ch. 15. In the United States escheat is used more broadly, but usually arises when the owner of property dies intestate without heirs. Our'alienage laws have generally removed disabilities of aliens to take, but in some jurisdictions there may still be escheat …


Note And Comment, Edgar N. Durfee, Edwin C. Goddard, Horace Lafayette Wilgus Dec 1919

Note And Comment, Edgar N. Durfee, Edwin C. Goddard, Horace Lafayette Wilgus

Michigan Law Review

Effect at the Situs Rei of a Decree Ordering Conveyance of Foreign Land - In a recent article in this Review, Prof. Willard Barbour discussed the question indicated by the above title. His cbnclusions may be-briefly slated as follows: that such a decree of a competent court having jurisdiction of the person of the defendant creates a personal obligation upon the defendant which a court of equity at the situs should enforce just as it w9uld a contract or trust concerning this land made in the foreign jurisdiction: and that, as between the States of this Union. the "full faith …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Dec 1919

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Banks and Banking - Negotiable Instruments - Indorsement of Forged Check - Plaintiff, nowing that the one who signed the drawer's name was not the drawer herself, but not knowing further of signer's lack of authority, presented a check drawn on defendant bank in which bank the supposed drawer had an account but not sufficient to cover the check. The check was payable to plaintiff and indorsed by him and was placed to his credit in the bank. After discovering the forgery defendant charged tle check to plaintiff's account. Plaintiff objected to such charge. Held, that the defendant might repudiate …


Are Charges Against The Moral Character Of A Candidate For An Elective Office Conditionally Privileged, Jeremiah Smith Dec 1919

Are Charges Against The Moral Character Of A Candidate For An Elective Office Conditionally Privileged, Jeremiah Smith

Michigan Law Review

Is candidacy for an elective office such a special occasion as to confer conditional privilege (prima facie protection) upon charges affecting the moral character of the candidate?


Book Reviews, Edson R. Sunderland, Edwin D. Dickinson Dec 1919

Book Reviews, Edson R. Sunderland, Edwin D. Dickinson

Michigan Law Review

Unless lawyers are an unimaginative and hopelessly backward-looking social group, as some unkind critics have asserted, they will find this book one of he most suggestive and stimulating contributions to legal literature that has appeared in recent years. It touches in a broad way the whole field of the relation of legal institutions and the legal profession to the major problems of society. It demonstr4tes in a most striking manner how those who plan and administer the machinery of the law must awake to the fact that they form the front line of civilization's defense against anarchy. And it presents …


Are Charges Against The Moral Character Of A Candidate For An Elective Office Conditionally Privileged, Jeremiah Smith Nov 1919

Are Charges Against The Moral Character Of A Candidate For An Elective Office Conditionally Privileged, Jeremiah Smith

Michigan Law Review

The above specific question, upon which there is a conflict of authority, cannot be intelligently discussed without first considering some features of the general law as to conditional privilege.


Judicial System Of Michigan Under Governor And Judges, W L. Jenks Nov 1919

Judicial System Of Michigan Under Governor And Judges, W L. Jenks

Michigan Law Review

When the Territory of Michigan came into existence July i, 1805, it found a system of jurisprudence in operation which had been adopted by the Governor and Judges of the Northwest Territory from the laws of Pennsylvania, due no doubt, to the fact that Gov. Arthur St. Clair had lived some years in that State, had been a member of its Board of Censors, a magistrate, and was familiar with its judicial system which provided a-Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace in each county composed of Justices of the Peace, a Court of Common Pleas in each County, …


Political Crimes Defined, Theodore Schroeder Nov 1919

Political Crimes Defined, Theodore Schroeder

Michigan Law Review

Continental Europe is in the midst of revolutions. The immediate antecedents are such as to suggest the probable accompaniment of more widespread and perhaps even more intense passions of various sort, than have ever before been brought into being with a revolution. This in turn suggests the likelihood that there will follow more political plots and counter-revolutions than is usual in such cases. From such causes it is highly probable that the juridical meaning of the statutory words "an offense of a political character" will be a matter of frequent controversy, as successive crops of exiles claim the right of …


Note And Comment, Edson R. Sunderland, Evans Holbrook, Jospeh H. Drake, Ralph W. Aigler, Victor H. Lane Nov 1919

Note And Comment, Edson R. Sunderland, Evans Holbrook, Jospeh H. Drake, Ralph W. Aigler, Victor H. Lane

Michigan Law Review

The Law School- The year 1919-1920 opens with 336 sudents enrolled. These are classified as follows: Third year--85; second year--W; first year -149; special-s. As compared with 65 enrolled a year ago the present attendance is gratifying. Preliminary applscations point to a large number of entering students in February.


Book Reviews, Edwin D. Dickinson Nov 1919

Book Reviews, Edwin D. Dickinson

Michigan Law Review

The collaboration in a literary and scholarly enterprise of Mr. Thomas Erskine Holland as editor, Mr. James L. Brierly as translator, and the Oxfor University Press as publisher was certain to produce a work of superior merit. They have in all respects outdone themselves in their sumptuous edition of Legnano's TRLACTATUS in the Classics of International Law. The volume contains a collotype of an early manuscript, a reproduction of the first edition, a revised Latin text, an English translation by Mr. Brierly, and an excellent biographical and bibliographical introduction by Mr. Holland. The editing has been done throughout with Mr. …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Nov 1919

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Boundaries - Property Conveyed - Half of "Lot" Street - Plaintiff and defendants own, respectively, the easterly and westerly halves of "lot 17" of a certain tract of land. Defendants' deed described the land conveyed to them as the "westerly one-half of lot 17" of said tract, according to a recorded map, which indicated that the western boundary of lot 17 is the center line of an avenue 6o feet wide. Plaintiff sues to quiet title to a strip of land i5 feet wide adjacent to the center line of said lot. Held, that the 3o-foot strip covered by the …


Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, Charles L. Kaufman, Edwin D. Dickinson, Lester S. Hecht, Leon L. Greenbaum Jun 1919

Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, Charles L. Kaufman, Edwin D. Dickinson, Lester S. Hecht, Leon L. Greenbaum

Michigan Law Review

Judicial Reform in Michigan - The legislature which has been in regular session this year has enacted a measure enlarging the scope of judicial action in a way likely to add very greatly to the iusefulness of the courts. This law authorizes courts of record to make binding declarations of the rights of parties prior to the commission of a wrongful act


Freedom Of Speech And Of The Press In War Time The Espionage Act, Thomas F. Carroll Jun 1919

Freedom Of Speech And Of The Press In War Time The Espionage Act, Thomas F. Carroll

Michigan Law Review

The Imperial German Government had never made a secret of its willingness to encourage disloyalty among the citizens and subjects of Germany's enemies. It had officially announced: "Bribery of enemies' subjects, acceptance of offers of treachery, utilization of discontented elements in the population, support of pretenders and the like are permissible; indeed, international law is in no way opposed to the exploitation of the crimes of third parties."'


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jun 1919

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Arrest - Right of Officer to Kill when Serving Warrant for Misdimeanor- Defendant-had a warrant for the arrest of one White, charging him with being drunk and disorderly. When the defendant served the warrant, White advanced upon him with an open knife. Although the defendant had a chance to escape through an open door, he shot and wounded White. In the prosecution of defendant for shooting and wounding White, it was held that the defendant was justified in shooting him. State v. Dunning (N. C., igig), 98 S. E. 530


Note And Comment, George L. Canfield, Edson R. Sunderland, Edwin D. Dickinson, Orvid B. Tanner May 1919

Note And Comment, George L. Canfield, Edson R. Sunderland, Edwin D. Dickinson, Orvid B. Tanner

Michigan Law Review

Admiralty Rule of "Care and Cure" A Limit of Liability - One of the very ancient doctrines of the general maritime law is that a sailor injured in the service of the ship is entitled to care and cure at the expense of the ship, and to his wages, but nothing more in the nature of damages for negligence of the master or others of the ship's company. In the sixth article of the Rooles d'Oleron, for example, it is said,---"But if by the master's orders and commands any of the ship's company be in the service of the ship, …


Book Reviews, Victor H. Lane, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Edwin D. Dickinson May 1919

Book Reviews, Victor H. Lane, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Edwin D. Dickinson

Michigan Law Review

The lawyer who, for the last two decades has kept abreast of the literature of the law, is appreciative of the fact that no branch of the old law has received such scientific and scholarly treatment, as has the law of evidence, and few of the more modern fields have been as thoroughly and intelligently cultivated. Led by Professor Thayer in that incomparable series of essays gathered under one title in his "Preliminary Treatise on Evidence at the Common Law," followed by Professor Wigmore with his edition of Greenleaf's first volume, and later by his great work "Evidence in Trials …


United States Department Of State, John M. Mathews May 1919

United States Department Of State, John M. Mathews

Michigan Law Review

In the conduct of foreign relations, the President, though ultimately responsible to the people for the general success or failure of such conduct, is unable, of course, to give his personal attention to any except what he deems to ,be the most important and momentous questions of policy. For handling the great mass of routine matters and even for the determination of many questions of policy which are of considerable importance, he is dependent upon the assistance of the agencies supplied for that purpose. These agencies are, principally, the department of state, the diplomatic service, and the consular service. These …


Retaliation And Neutral Rights, Hessel Edward Yntema May 1919

Retaliation And Neutral Rights, Hessel Edward Yntema

Michigan Law Review

The readjustment of international law to the ever-changing conditions of maritime warfare has always presented problems of extreme difficulty. Particularly is this the case, when, as in the Napoleonic wars and the recent European conflict, belligerents, falling back upon the exceptional plea of necessity, attempt to modify the rights of neutral powers to their own advantage or even to involve them in the conflict. A question of this character, namely, the extent to which a belligerent in pursuing retaliatory measures against 'alleged violations of international law by his opponent, may thereby abridge the admitted rights of neutrals, was raised in …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review May 1919

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Cemetaries - Civil Liabilities - Torts - Plaintiff sued defendant corporation for malicious prosecution by its sexton and secretary. Defendant was organized for cemetery purposes, not for profit, and without capital stock. The state general code provided that such an association might acquire and hold not exceeding one hundred acres of land, and also take any gift or devise, or the income thereof, in trust, "all of which shall be exempt from execution." Held, one justice dissenfing, under the maxim "expressio uniu, exclusio alterfus" the statute expressly excluded other property from execution. Hence defendant, though a charitable organization, was liable …


Book Reviews, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Willard T. Barbour Apr 1919

Book Reviews, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Willard T. Barbour

Michigan Law Review

This volume was prepared under the supervision of Colonel J. H. Wigmore. It was designed especially for the use of the Students' Army Training Corps, and was available for that purpose just about the time those Corps were" disbanded. The volume, however, is a very valuable source-collection for the use of anyone interested in Military and War-time Law,-the two parts into which the volume is divided. The first part includes legislative enactments, with extracts from the English Mutiny Act of 1688, from the United States Constitution, all of the Articles of War, and numerous extracts from the Revised Statutes of …


Religious Liberty In The American Law, Carl Zollman Apr 1919

Religious Liberty In The American Law, Carl Zollman

Michigan Law Review

It remains to examine the application of this principle* to particu- 1 lar offenses. Statutes have been passed against blasphemy and offenders have been prosecuted under them. This, as said in a Massachusetts case, has not been done "to prevent or restrain the formation of any opinions or the profession of any religious sentiments whatever but to restrain and punish acts which have a tendency to disturb the public peace.185 To prohibit the open, public, and explicit denial of the-popular religion of a country is a necessary measure to preserve the tranquility of a government. Of this no person in …


Note And Comment, Edson R. Sunderland, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, John B. Waite, Ralph W. Aigler, Joseph H. Drake Apr 1919

Note And Comment, Edson R. Sunderland, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, John B. Waite, Ralph W. Aigler, Joseph H. Drake

Michigan Law Review

Repeals by Implication - Prohibition in Michigan - At the November election of. 1916 the people of the state of Michigan ratified the following amendment to the constitution of that state: "The manufacture, sale, giving away, bartering or furnishing of any vinous, malt, brewed, fermented, spiritous or intoxicating liquors, except for medicinal, mechanical, chemical, scientific or sacramental purposes shall be after April thirty, nineteen hundred eighteen, prohibited in the State forever. The Legislature shall by law provide regulations for the sale of such liquors for medicinal, mechanica, cheinical, scientific and sacramental purposes."


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Apr 1919

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Agency - Respondeat Superior as to Liability of a Lodge for Negligence of a Subordinate Lodge - The Birmingham Lodge used what was called a "branding board" for initiating new members. A current of electricity was turned on for the purpose of creating on the blindfolded candidate an impression that he was being branded. This was so effective that it killed- one candidate. Nothing daunted by this the lodge tried it on another candidate, fifteen minutes later, possibly to see if it was still working. It was, and the administrator of the estate of the second deceased candidate now sues …


Book Reviews, Horace Lafayette Wilgus Mar 1919

Book Reviews, Horace Lafayette Wilgus

Michigan Law Review

Handbook of Military Law. By Austin Wakeman Scott, Professor of Law, Harvard University. Cambridge, Harvard University, 1918, pp. vii, 104.


Religious Liberty In The American Law, Carl Zollman Mar 1919

Religious Liberty In The American Law, Carl Zollman

Michigan Law Review

When the convention which framed the federal constitution assembled in Philadelphia in 1787 religious tests as a qualification for office were actually a part of the constitutions of most of the thirteen original states.' While Massachusetts2 and%,Maryland3 required from certain state officers only a declaration of a belief in the Christian religion, the fundamental law of Georgia, New Hampshire, New Jersey and North Carolina4 limited such belief to the Protestant religion and was designed to require a positive and affirmative test and not merely the negative qualification of not being a Roman Catholic.0 The Delaware, North Carolina and Pennsylvania constitutions7 …