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Comparative Conflict Resolution Procedures In Taxation: An Analytic Comparative Study, L. Hart Wright, Jean Van Houtte, Pierre Kerlan, Helmut Debatin, James Arthur Johnstone, H. Schuttevaer, Elizabeth G. Brown

Michigan Legal Studies Series

Tax administrators in well developed countries rarely have either occasion or opportunity to compare experiences or exchange opinions regarding procedures and practices utilized in administering complicated tax laws. Moreover, there is little comparative literature on the subject. Even the tax institutes which are internationally oriented usually focus on substantive tax principles, not procedures and practices. Hopefully, therefore, administrators in highly developed countries will find useful this analytic comparison of practices and procedures through which six of their number resolve disputable income tax questions -administratively and judicially.

Concern for tax administrators in well developed countries, however, was not the prime motivation …

Administrative Law And Local Government, Bernie R. Burrus

Michigan Legal Studies Series

Part of the Legal Problems in Metropolitan Area Series by the Legislative Research Center at the University of Michigan.

Atoms And The Law, E. Blythe Stason, Samuel D. Estep, William J. Pierce

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Early in 1951 a group of interested members of the faculty of The University of Michigan Law School conceived the idea of a research project, the purpose of which would be to investigate the principal unique legal problems being created and likely to be created in the future by peaceful uses of atomic energy. The group planned the preparation and publication of a series of manuscripts which might ultimately emerge as one or more printed volumes dealing with the legal problems affecting this new form of energy. Many phases of the subject were scrutinized, including the rule-making and licensing powers …

Administrative Agencies And The Court, Frank E. Cooper

Michigan Legal Studies Series

The limits which courts place on the powers of administrative tribunals have particular significance to practicing attorneys and law students. It is largely to the extent that such limits are imposed, that our government remains a government of laws and not a government of men.

The following pages have been written to describe the standards which the courts impose upon administrative agencies, thereby controlling and limiting their powers. More particularly, the writer has sought: (1) to bring together the leading cases in which the courts have laid down the principles that govern frequently litigated questions in contests between the agencies …

A Treatise On The Law Of Wills: Including Also Gifts Causa Mortis And A Summary Of The Law Of Descent, Distribution And Administration, John R. Rood

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“The present work was undertaken with the purpose of furnishing a substantial treatise on the whole law of succession in one volume. Within this scheme were comprehended the separate topics following: 1, gifts causa mortis, by reason of their resemblance to legacies; 2, wills, including all legal questions and doctrines peculiar to wills; 3, the substantive law of descent and distribution; and 4, the adjective law of succession, including the administration of both testate and intestate estates.”--Preface.

Cases On The Law Of Succession To Property After The Death Of The Owner, Floyd R. Mechem

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“The following cases have been printed at the request of Professor Mechem, of the Law Department of the University of Michigan, for use in connection with his lectures in that law school. They have been chiefly selected from Reeves’ Cases on Wills and Abbott’s Cases on Descent, Wills, and Administration.” Title page.