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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Dec 1912

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Adverse Possession--Railroads--Effect of Change of Line; Bankruptcy--Extension of Time for Filing Petition for Discharge; Bankruptcy--Voidable Preferences--Proceeds of Fire Insurance Policy; Bills and Notes--Liability of Irregular Indorser--Questions for Jury; Bills and Notes--Negotiability--Law Governing; Boundaries--Street--Land Made by Change in Street; Commerce--Interstate Commerce on Route Between Two Points in Same State; Criminal Law--Dead Bodies--Proper Burial; Constitutional Law--Involuntary Servitude; Deeds--New Grantee in Habendum--Construction; Deeds--Parol Reservation of Growing Crops by Vendor of Land; Evidence--Admissibility of Statements of a prior Holder of Negotiable Paper Against Transferee; Evidence--Right to Introduce Secondary Evidence of Contents of a Document When the Original is Beyond Jurisdiction of the Court; Guardian …


Book Reviews, Henry M. Bates, Henry M. Bates Nov 1912

Book Reviews, Henry M. Bates, Henry M. Bates

Michigan Law Review

Hall: Constitutional Law; McClain: Constitutional Law in the United States; McCarthy: The Wisconsin Idea; Moore: Four Phases of American Development--Federalism, Democracy, Imperialism and Expansion;


The Need Of A Scientific Study Of Crime, Crimninal Law, And Procedure--The American Institute Of Criminal Law And Criminology, Eugene A. Gilmore Nov 1912

The Need Of A Scientific Study Of Crime, Crimninal Law, And Procedure--The American Institute Of Criminal Law And Criminology, Eugene A. Gilmore

Michigan Law Review

The multiplying instances of the delay or seeming miscarriage of justice, together with the indications that crime is not diminishing in this country, as it is in most progressive European countries, are responsible for the widespread feeling that American Criminal Law and Administration are ineffective as a corrective system, and thus fail adequately to protect society; that as President Taft puts it, "The administration of criminal law in this country is a disgrace to our civilization." Defective organization of courts, cumbrous and costly procedure and excessive emphasis on technicalities afford an undue advantage to the law-breaker of means and deepen …


What Is The Law?, Joseph W. Bingham Nov 1912

What Is The Law?, Joseph W. Bingham

Michigan Law Review

It is intended that this title shall demand an analysis of the field of study in which the lawyer or jurist works and a determination of its essential and contributing elements. The purpose of the article is to sketch briefly a partial answer which will be instructive and helpful to the student who faces the problem as I faced it some ten years ago. I do not expect that anything new will be found in these ideas. I imagine that all of them must have been expressed many times before. Some of them are common­place. None is esoteric. Probably the …


Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, Robert L. Mayall Nov 1912

Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, Robert L. Mayall

Michigan Law Review

The Law School; Possession Under Mistake, as Adverse Possession; Limitation of Carrier's Common-Law Liability; The Force and Effect of State Insolvency Laws Under the Bankruptcy Act of 1898;


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Nov 1912

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Animals--Abuse--Malice Toward the Owner; Assault and Battery--Apparent Ability; Bankruptcy--marshaling Assets of Partnership and of Constituent Firm; Banks and Banking--Checks--Fictitious Payee; Bills and Notes--Bona Fide Holder; Carrier--duty to Protect Passengers; Constitutional law--Division of Powers--Infringement on Executive; Constitutional law--Eminent Domain--Supersedure of Ordinance of 1787; Constitutional law--Special Legislation--Automobiles; Corporations--Issue of Stock--Corporation of Two States; Courts--Jurisdiction--Damage to Real Property Without the State--Negligence; Damage--Personal Injuries Contributing to Disease; Deeds--Assignment o fright of Entry Between Heirs; Deeds--Restrictive Covenant--"building" Defined; Equity--Infringement of Trade Marks--"Clean Hands"--Husband and Wife--Estate by Entirety--Conveyance of Husband's Interest; Judgment--Effect of the Transcript of a Justice's Judgement Filed in the District Court; Judgment--Estoppel--Homestead; Marriage--What …


Judicial Criticism Of Legislation By Courts, Charles G. Haines Nov 1912

Judicial Criticism Of Legislation By Courts, Charles G. Haines

Michigan Law Review

In the application of the doctrine of judicial review of legislative acts, the federal courts of the United States have not infrequently been criticised for usurping part of the functions of the legislature. The criticisms have increased to such an extent as to raise an issue of national significance. Recently, charges against the judiciary for the usurpation of legislative functions have been made rather frequently by the justices of our federal Supreme Comt. The late Associate Justice Harlan, dissenting in part from the reasoning of the majority of the court in the Standard Oil case, brought such a criticism against …


Note And Comment, Sigmund W. David, Newton K. Fox, Harold R. Curtis, Aquilla C. Lewis, Albert R. Dilley Jun 1912

Note And Comment, Sigmund W. David, Newton K. Fox, Harold R. Curtis, Aquilla C. Lewis, Albert R. Dilley

Michigan Law Review

Civil Liability for False Testimony; Review by the Courts of the Decisions of the Land Department; Right of One Partner to Sue His Co-Partners in Conversion; Does a Tax Deed, Void on it Face, Give Color of Title; Interference With Employment by Trade Union;


Book Reviews, Joseph H. Drake, Joseph H. Drake Jun 1912

Book Reviews, Joseph H. Drake, Joseph H. Drake

Michigan Law Review

The Modern Legal Philosophy Series; Borchard: Guide to the Law and Legal Literature of Germany


Restrictions On The Use Of Patented Articles, Edward S. Rogers Jun 1912

Restrictions On The Use Of Patented Articles, Edward S. Rogers

Michigan Law Review

The case of Henry v. Dick recently decided by the Supreme Court of the United States, has occasioned considerable unfavorable comment in the public press. It seems to be the opinion of many that the decision lays down a new principle of law, particularly adaptable to the working of a monopoly, and that the public is, under the supposed new principle, exposed to a practically unlimited exploitation by any patentee. It is believed that neither of these contentions is correct.


The Pelatiah Webster Myth, Edward S. Corwin Jun 1912

The Pelatiah Webster Myth, Edward S. Corwin

Michigan Law Review

For several years Mr. Hannis Taylor has been endeavoring to persuade the American public that the Constitution, instead of being the work of the Convention of 1787, acting under the guidance of men like Madison, Hamilton, Pinckney, Patterson, Ellsworth, and others of similar caliber, was really the invention of a single individual, Pelatiah Webster by name, whose fame, till Mr. Taylor's resurrection of it in The North American Review for August, 1907, had dropped quite out of historical notice. Since this first publication of his discovery, Mr.Taylor has returned to the attack time and time again, now in a memorial …


Front Matter, Michigan Law Review Jun 1912

Front Matter, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Front Matter for Michigan Law Review Vol 10 (1911-1912)


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jun 1912

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Agency--Fiduciary Relation--Right of Principal to Agent's Acquisitions--Patents for Agent's Inventions; Bankruptcy--Insurance Policies as Assets; Carriers--Duty Toward Alighting Passenger; Commerce--Conflicting State and Federal Regulation; Constitutional law--Restrictive Labor Laws for Women; Contributory Negligence--Children; Conveyancing--Covenants--Construction of "Business" in Restrictive Covenant; corporations--Director's Meetings--Effect of Surprise, Trick, or Fraud in Securing a Quorum; Corporations--Eleemosynary--Liability of Educational Institution for Torts; Corporations--Fraudulent Organization--Corporation a Nullity; Criminal Law--Wife Abandonment--Proper Venue; Damages--Breach of Contract--Value of Unmatured Crops; Damages--Master and Servant--Wrongful Discharge of Servant; Dedication--requisites, Sufficiency and Acceptance; Deeds--Rule in Shelley's Case; Equity--Temporary Injunction--Function and Effect; Garnishment--Possession of Garnishee--Safety Deposit Box; Husband and Wife--Power of Wife to Dispose of Her …


National Power And State Interposition 1787-1861, Edwin S. Corwin May 1912

National Power And State Interposition 1787-1861, Edwin S. Corwin

Michigan Law Review

Fifty years have elapsed since South Carolina pretended to leave the Union. Looking over recent writings of northern men on the constitutional phase of that momentous event, one will find among their authors a strong disposition to throw up the whole case on the question of the legal rightfulness of secession. For this phenomenon four reasons may be assigned : (1) sheer human indolence; (2) the fact that the apologetic zeal of the conquered is notoriously apt to overbear the conciliatory complacency of the conqueror; (3) the fact that by a species of intellectual inertia the mind of the student …


Note And Comment, Dean L. Lucking, Paul P. Farrens, George E. Brand, Walle W. Merritt, Albert E. Merder May 1912

Note And Comment, Dean L. Lucking, Paul P. Farrens, George E. Brand, Walle W. Merritt, Albert E. Merder

Michigan Law Review

Concealing a Secret Trust by Making an Absolute Testamentary Gift to Testator's Solicitor; Conflict of State and Federal Regulations of Interstate Commerce Before the Latter Becomes Operative; Adverse Possession by an Alien and the Effect of Statute Removing an Alien's Disability to Inherit; The Rescission of a Pre-Corporate Contract on the Ground of Promoter's Fraud; When is an Agreement "Not to be Performed Within a Year"


Book Reviews May 1912

Book Reviews

Michigan Law Review

Pollock: The Genius of the Common Law;


Implication Of Life Estates, Distributive Construction And Disposition Of Intermediate Income, Albert M. Kales May 1912

Implication Of Life Estates, Distributive Construction And Disposition Of Intermediate Income, Albert M. Kales

Michigan Law Review

The Problems Stated. Suppose a testator makes a devise or bequest to take effect after the death of A, without however expressly giving any interest to A. Does A take a life estate by implication? If not, what happens to the income or the rents and profits? Suppose a testator devise Blackacre to A for life and after the death of A said Blackacre together with other property is devised to B. Here three questions at once arise. Does A take a life estate by implication in the property other than Blackacre? If not, then are the words "after the …


Procedural Law Reform, Willis B. Perkins May 1912

Procedural Law Reform, Willis B. Perkins

Michigan Law Review

It is said that under our present practice, no matter how just the verdict and judgment of the court below may be, no lawyer can guarantee that his case may not be reversed by the Supreme Court. Is this criticism well-founded in fact; and, if so, is it a reflection upon our present methods of legal procedure? The statisticians tell us that no less than twenty per cent of all the cases taken to our appellate courts relate to questions of practice, and that throughout the country in forty per cent of these cases new trials are granted. In our …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review May 1912

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bankruptcy--Actos of Bankruptcy--Partnership Preferences; Bankruptcy--constitutional Protection Afforded by the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution; Bankruptcy--Interest--When Payable After Date of Filing Petition and up to date of Payment; Banks and Banking--Payment of Check to Wrong Person--Estoppel; Bills and Notes--Construction of Instrument--Negotiable Notes; bills and Notes--Indorsers--Notice of Dishonor by Telephone--Sufficiency; constitutional Law--Due Process of Law--Criminal Insane; electricity--Interfering Currents; Equity--Injunction Against Unfair Competition; Fishery--In Gross or Appurtenant; Homestead--Abandonment--Removal From State; Insanity--Court Cannot Interfere if Defendant has Refused to Set it up as a Defense at the Trial; Insurance--Foreign Insurance Companies--Liability on Losses Occurring After Dissolution; Libel and Slander--Qualified Privilege--Priest and Congregation; …


The State Governor Ii, John A. Fairlie Apr 1912

The State Governor Ii, John A. Fairlie

Michigan Law Review

The power of the governor over the executive administration includes on the one hand his general control over the whole administration, and on the other hand the special authority conferred in certain particular branches of administration. His general authority is based on his control over the personnel of the administration, by means of his powers of appointment and removal; and by his power to see that the laws are executed, and more specific authority to direct and control the actions of subordinate officials. His special administrative powers include those in relation to military affairs and the external affairs of the …


Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, Paul P. Farrens, Newton K. Fox, Leonard F. Martin, Albino Z. Sycip Apr 1912

Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, Paul P. Farrens, Newton K. Fox, Leonard F. Martin, Albino Z. Sycip

Michigan Law Review

Provability in Bankruptcy of Claims Arising out of Alimony Decrees or Separation Agreements Between Husband and Wife; The Scope and Function of the Federal Employer's Liability Act; Control by the Judiciary Over the Chief Executive of a State; What Constitutes an Appearance in an Action for Divorce; The Question of the Validity of a Stipulation for Attorney's Fees Under the Negotiable Instruments Law


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Apr 1912

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Adverse Possession--Possession of One Joint-Tenant as Possession of All; Bankruptcy--manner of Claiming Exemptions--Construction of Provisions Relating to Exemptions; Bankruptcy--Title to Property of Bankrupt After Adjudication and Before Election of Trustee; Bills and Notes--Agreement for Attorney Fee Void Under Negotiable Instruments Act; Champterty and Maintenance--Contract with attorney for Contingent Fee; Commerce--Carriers--Federal Employer's Liability Act Held Constitutional; Commerce--State Regulation--Intoxicating Liquors--Carrier's Refusal to Accept; Constitutional law--Equal Protection--Discrimination in License Tax; damages--Injuries to Growing Crops; Damages--liability of Corporation in Punitive Damages for Acts of Its Officers; Evidence--Carbon Copy Admissible as Duplicate Original; Evidence--Judicial Notice that Beer is an Intoxicating Liquor; Garnishment--Impeaching Affidavit--Dissolution; Infants--Torts--Breach of …


Book Reviews, Edson R. Sunderland Apr 1912

Book Reviews, Edson R. Sunderland

Michigan Law Review

Nichols: Michigan Forms of Procedure at Law


Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, Langdon H. Larwill, Walter R. Metz Mar 1912

Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, Langdon H. Larwill, Walter R. Metz

Michigan Law Review

The Rule of Certainty in Damages and the Value of a Chance; Is a Bank Check an Assignment Pro Tanto of the Fund on Deposit?; The "Finger-Print" Case; Right of Husband to Recover Alimony Independent of an Action for Divorce;


The Economic And Legal Basis Of Compulsory Industrial Insurance For Workmen I, James Harrington Boyd Mar 1912

The Economic And Legal Basis Of Compulsory Industrial Insurance For Workmen I, James Harrington Boyd

Michigan Law Review

It is proposed to present to the readers of the Michigan Law Review, the economic and legal basis for the substitution of a new remedy, namely, compulsory industrial insurance for workingmen, in lieu of the common and statutory liability law remedies, as a means for compensating workmen who are injured in the due course of their employment. In Part I, it will be shown not only that the common (and liability) law remedy in its present form does not furnish compensation of any kind in to exceed 12% of the cases of injuries to employees, and even in those cases …


The State Governor I, John A. Fairlie Mar 1912

The State Governor I, John A. Fairlie

Michigan Law Review

In all the States of the American Union there is an official known as the governor, who is at the head of the executive department of the State government. Most of the State constitutions provide that "the supreme executive power" shall be vested in the governor; and in some States, the phrase "chief executive power" is used; while others have the simpler form, "the executive power," as found in the national constitution. The qualifying adjective, "supreme" or "chief," found in most of the State constitutions serves to indicate at the outset a difference in the position of the governor from …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Mar 1912

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Adverse Possession--Prior Holding; Appeal and Error--Harmless Error--Admission of Evidence--Mortality Tables; Bankruptcy--Effect of Composition of Liability of Surety on Bankrupt's Note; Bank and Bank--Collections--Insolvency of Collecting Bank; Bills and Notes--instruments Constituting Negotiable Notes; Contracts--Arbitration Clause; Contracts--Indefiniteness of Promise; Contributory Negligence--Acts in Emergency; Corporations--Liability of Corporation in Action for Deceit; Estoppel--School Lands--Title of State; False Pretenses--Defenses--Illegality; Husband and Wife--Support of Self and infant Children--Action by Wife Against Husband; Intoxicating Liquors--Regulation--Prohibition--Police Power; Mortgages Upon Property of Constituent Companies Become a Lien Upon the Property of a Consolidated Company; Municipal Corporations--Liability for Injuries Resulting from Civic Beautification; Municipal Corporations--Partial Vacation of Streets--Title to Land …


Book Reviews, Henry M. Bates Mar 1912

Book Reviews, Henry M. Bates

Michigan Law Review

Watson: the Constitution of the United States, Its History, Application and Construction


Workmen's Compensation In Michigan, Hal H. Smith Feb 1912

Workmen's Compensation In Michigan, Hal H. Smith

Michigan Law Review

The Michigan Commission appointed by Governor Osborn to report upon Employers' Liability and Workmen's Compensation, and to present a law that would embody its conclusions, has formulated its report and laid the same before the Governor. The report deals with the subject from an economic standpoint in so far as it was found possible to divorce it from the legal problems that are so important to a practical and constitutional solution. Though the Commission has in its report made no particular reference to its views upon the legal questions involved, it is evident, that it must have arrived at a …


Implied Powers Of Agent For Sale Of Land, Floyd R. Mechem Feb 1912

Implied Powers Of Agent For Sale Of Land, Floyd R. Mechem

Michigan Law Review

What Here Included--It will be borne in mind that the question here to be considered is not in what form or in what manner authority to sell land may be conferred, e. g., whether it must be by writing or may be by word or act, but whether an authority properly created and unquestionably existing for some purpose will include this one, whether authority unquestionably relating in some form to land confers authority to sell it, and whether an authority clearly authorizing a sale of land confers authority to do some other act relating to it. So far as form …