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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.


Writs Vs Rights An Unended Contest, Lyman P. Wilson Feb 1920

Writs Vs Rights An Unended Contest, Lyman P. Wilson

Michigan Law Review

It is desired in the following pages, even at the expense of repeajing much that is already common knowledge, to emphasize that as yet we are not done with the formulary system of the common law, despite the fact that codes of civil procedure in most of our states have purported to end the varied and interesting career of forms of action at common law by legislating them out of existence. However, that legislative edict has been about as effecttive as was the famous, but probably mythical, order of King Canute to the waves of the sea. Certain well-known illustrations …


Fictitious Payee, Victor H. Kulp Feb 1920

Fictitious Payee, Victor H. Kulp

Michigan Law Review

It is proposed to discuss the doctrine that negotiable instruments with fictitious payees are deemed payable to bearer, and to note the conditions and limitations of the rule.


Front Matter, Michigan Law Review Jan 1920

Front Matter, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Front matter for Volume 18, Issue 3 of Michigan Law Review.


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 …


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 …


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.


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.


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 …


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 …


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 …


Front Matter, Michigan Law Review Jan 1920

Front Matter, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Front matter for Volume 18, Issue 5 of Michigan Law Review.


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 …


Intrinsic Limitations On The Power Of Constitutional Amendment, George D. Skinner Jan 1920

Intrinsic Limitations On The Power Of Constitutional Amendment, George D. Skinner

Michigan Law Review

Just as the war has educated the public in geography, so the question of amending the organic law of the country has stimulated discussion concerning our own legal and political institutions. The amendments providing for the direct election of senators and for federal power to levy an income tax attracted little attention compared with the sudden interest in legal questions which the so-called prohibition amendment has aroused, for it touches upon a matter of very intimate personal concern to many people and one over which very heated controversies have raged. Matters involving, or which are made to involve, moral issues …


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, 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 …


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.


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 …


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.


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?


Extension Of Liability Of Abstracters, Harry R. Trusler Dec 1919

Extension Of Liability Of Abstracters, Harry R. Trusler

Michigan Law Review

The General Rule.- In 1900 a standard encyclopedia said: "By the weight of authority an abstracter is liable only to the person ordering and paying for the abstract; and where this view obtains, the fact that an abstracter has knowledge that his abstract is to be used in a sale or loan to advise a purchaser or person about to lend money does not affect the rule as to his liability. In some jurisdictions, however, the abstracter's liability has been extended to protect those who, relying on the correctness of the abstract, are injured."


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 …


Account Of Some Psychological Experiments On The Subject Of Trade-Mark Infringement, Edward S. Rogers Dec 1919

Account Of Some Psychological Experiments On The Subject Of Trade-Mark Infringement, Edward S. Rogers

Michigan Law Review

iew in June, 1910, entitled, "The Unwary Purchaser, A Study in the Psychology of Trademark Infringement".


Books Received, Michigan Law Review Dec 1919

Books Received, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Authority in the Modern State, by Harold J. Laski, of the Department of History, Harvard University. New Haven, Yale University Press, i919, pp. x, 398.


Front Matter, Michigan Law Review Dec 1919

Front Matter, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Front matter for Volume 18, Issue 2 of Michigan Law Review.