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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bankruptcy--Trustee's Right to Enforce Stockholder's Statutory Liability; Bills and Notes--Failure of Consideration--When Maker is Estopped From Pleading It; Bills and Notes--Instrument Payable After Death--Whether Valid Obligation or of a Testamentary Character; Carriers--Interstate and Intrastate Commerce; Carriers--Regulations Relative to Shipment of Live Stock; Constitutional Law--Equal Protection of Laws--Foreign Corporations--Statute Forfeiting Right to Do Business; Constitutional law--Police Power--Personal Liberty--Photographing Persons Charged With Crime; Contempt--Murder of Prisoner Pending His Appeal; Counties--Action by Taxpayer--Compensation of Attorney; Criminal Law--What Constitutes a Disorderly House; Damages--Allowance of Attorney's Fees--rule in Hadley v. Baxendale Applied; Eminent Domain--Taking or Damaging Property--Noise and Smoke From Operation of Railroad; Equity--Illegal Contract--Duty …

Note And Comment, Richard E. Simmonds Jr., Robert T. Hughes, Ralph W. Doty

Michigan Law Review

The Law School--President Angell on Larger Preliminary Requirements--Faculty Changes--Enrollment; A Misleading Opinion as to the Defense of Non-Delivery of a Negotiable Instrument in an Action by a Holder in Due Course; Qualifications of Aliens for Naturalization; Fright Without Physical Impact but Resulting in Physical Injury; Noncompliance with Statutory Requirements as a Defense to Suits Brought by Foreign Corporations Where the Irregularity Has Been Cured Subsequently to the Institution of the Suit; In Absence of Proof What is the Presumption as to the Law of a Country not of Common Law Origin

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bills and Notes--Fictitious or Non-Existing Payee--Knowledge of Maker--English and American Views; Bills and Notes--Holder in Due Course; Carriers--Exemption from Liability for Negligence Under Special Contract; Colleges--Entrance Discriminations--Mandamus Not Remedy for Refusing Admission; Constitutional law--Aliens--Keeping for Immoral Purposes; Constitutional Law--Class Legislation--Licensing Itinerant Vendors; Constitutional Law--Legislative Power--Intoxicating Liquors--License System; Constitutional Law--Police Power--Intoxicating Liquors; Constitutional Law--Police Power--Ordinance Absolutely Prohibiting Billboards; Corporations--Ultra Vires--Organizing Another Corporation--Dissenting Stockholder; Deeds--Cancellation for Fraud--False Representations as to Intention; Deeds--Description--Parol Evidence to Explain Ambiguity; Deeds--Effect of Statute Abolishing the Use of Private Seals; Divorce--Adultery--Consent of Plaintiff; Elections--Qualification of Voters--Payment of Taxes--Payment by Unauthorized Person; Evidence--Privileged Communications--Professional Nurse and Patient; Health--Offering …

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bankruptcy--Discharge of Bankrupt From Arrest--Claims--Judgment--Willful and Malicious Injury; Bills and Notes--anomalous Indorser; Bills and Notes--Innocent Holder of Note Given on the Sale of "Futures"; Constitutional Law--Imprisonment for Debt; Elections--Constitutionality of "Terrell Election Law"; Eminent Domain--Accretions--Extending Highway--Compensation; Guaranty--Consideration--Past and Future Advances; Intoxicating Liquors--Right to Withdraw Names from Local Option Petition; Intoxicating Liquors--Sale of Malt Tonic; Landlord and Tenant--Change in Law Preventing Use of Part of Premises--Abatement of Rent; License--Parol Permission to Use Lands--Revocation of, After Expenditures by Licensee; Mandamus--Nature of the Remedy; Master and Servant--Injuries to Third Persons; Master and Servant--Injuries to Third Persons--Dual Relation--Proximate Cause; Monopolies--Right to Recover on Monopolistic …

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Assignment for Creditors--Validity of Common Law Assignment Under State Statutes--Assignee May Maintain Replevin; Bills and Notes--Fraud--Ability to Read; Bills and Notes--Signature by Agent or Representative--Personal Liability; Boundaries--Meander Line as Boundary in Government Grants--Mistake in Survey; Carriers--Liability as Carriers of Live Stock; Contracts--Antenuptial Agreements--Performance Prevented by Party; Courts--Supreme Court--Review of Decisions of State Courts; Courts--United States Courts Enjoining Proceedings in State Courts--establishment of Railroad Rates by Commission; Criminal Law--Larceny--Fraudulent Use of Legal Process; Criminal Law--Reception of Verdict--Accused's Right to be Present; Dead Bodies--Power of Court to Order Exhumation to Procure Evidence; Evidence--Burden of Proof; Evidence--compelling Accused to Criminate Himself--Waiver of Privilege; …

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bankruptcy--General Assignment--Liens Acquired by Assignee; Bills and Notes--Contract of Wife--bona Fide Purchasers; Bills and Notes--Non-Existing Payee--Negotiable Instruments Law; Constitutional Law--Jurisdiction of Federal Courts--suits Against A State; Contracts--Agreement in Restraint of Trade if Severable and Reasonable as to Part is Valid; Corporations--Taxation--Franchise Tax; Elections--Primary Elections--Use of Emblem on Ballots; Evidence--Competency of Witness--Transaction With Agent, Since Deceased; Evidence--Judicial Notice of "Football Season"; Evidence--Public Records of Another State; Guaranty--Change in Principal Contract--Discharge of Guarantor; Injunction--Vendee's Fraud Vitiates Right to Use Patented Machine; Insurance--Mutual Life Insurance--Invalid By-Law--Waiver of Breach; Interstate Commerce--Power of Courts to Enjoin Enforcement of Rates; Judgment--Of Foreign Country--Conclusiveness; Judgment--Power of Court …

Note And Comment, Harry B. Hutchins, Donald L. Way, Wendal A. Herbruck

Michigan Law Review

The Ownership of Sunken Logs; Combination Among Physicians to Fix Prices for Professional Services; The Issuance of Receivers' Certificates to pay Interest, Etc.; The Federal Constitution is Not Violated by a State Law Compelling one Accused of Crime to Testify Against Himself; Transfer of Negotiable Instrument Without Endorsement

Note And Comment, John R. Rood

Michigan Law Review

Continuance in Control of Corporate Funds by Fraudulent Directors; Liability of Maker of Overdue Note to Garnishment; The Relation of the Bank to Its Depositors; Invalid Contracts for Contingent Fees;

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Attachment--Property Subject to--Goods Conditionally Sold; Bankruptcy--Receiver and Manager--Insufficient Estate--Priorities; Bankruptcy--Solicitor and Client--Account Stated Bankruptcy of Client--Trustee's Right to Go Behind Stated Account, and Require Details; Banks and Banking--Receivers in Proceedings for Dissolution--Sufficiency of Bill; Bills and Notes--Foreign Bill of Exchange--Failure to Protest; Constitutional law--Equal Protection of the Law--Regulation of Common Carrier; Contracts--Mutuality of Obligation; Corporations--Agreement to Take Shares of Stock; Damages--Mental Suffering--Wanton Wrong; Deeds--Date--Presumption as to Time of Delivery; Deeds--Description--Statement of Quantity Controlling; Elections--Certificates of Nomination--Time of Filing--Accident and Mistake Causing Delay; Evidence--Admissibility of Conversation by Telephone; Evidence--Proof of Value--An Exception to the Hearsay Rule; Husband and Wife--Estate by Entirety--application …

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Acknowledgement--Impeachment--Examination of Married Woman; Bankruptcy--Discharge--Libel; Bankruptcy--Selection of Trustee--Right of Creditors to Elect; Bills and Notes--Genuine Draft with Forged Bill of Lading; Bills and Notes--Release of Indorsers; Carriers--Refulsal to Give Transer--Passenger's Motive in Requesting; Covenants--covenant Against Incumbrances--Runs with the Land; Deeds--Parties--One Not Names as Grantor Signing; Elections--Corrupt Practices Act--who is a Candidate; elections--voting Machines--Statute Unconstitutional; Eminent Domain--Taking of railroad Right of Way for Street Purposes--Measure of Damages; Equity--maxims--application in Suit for Divorce on Statutory Grounds; Evidence--Opinion as to One's Physical Condition--Expert Testimony; Foreign Corporations--Right to do business in State can Become Vested; Foreign Corporations--Service of Process on--What Constitutes "Doing Business"; Foreign …

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Adoption--Who is a "Child"; Agency--Ratification--Act Must Have Been Done as Agent--Trusts--Pretended Agent as Constructive Trustee; Bankruptcy--Assets--Commissions of Agent on Policies Written Prior to Adjudication; Bankruptcy--Property Held Under conditional Sale--Right to Reclaim; Banks and Banking--Usury Laws--Notes Purchased in Good Raith--Power of Congress to Regulate National Banks; Bills and Notes--Execution in Blank--Statutory Provisions; Constitutional Law--Inheritance Tax--due Process of Law; Contracts--Abandonment--Recovery;

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bankruptcy--Assigned Claim for Wages--Preference; Bankruptcy--time of Filing Claims; Banks and Banking--Liability of Stockholders--Unregistered Transfer; Banks and Banking--What is a Bank?; Bills and Notes--Indorsement Before Issue--Liabilities; Bills and Notes--usury--Evidence--Burden of Proof; Carriers--Freight Elevators as Carriers of Passengers; Carriers of Passengers--Servants--Communication of Disease; Constitutional Law--Delegation of Power; Constitutional Law--Police Power to Restrict Hours of Labor; Contracts--Mutuality; Courts--Criminal Law--Instructions to Jury; Covenants--Warranty--claims "By, Through or Under" Grantor--Eminent Domain; Criminal Law--Exclusion of Public From Trial; Criminal Law--Trial--conduct of Jury--comments on Defendant's Failure to Testify; Divorce--Custody of Minor Children--Duty to Support Father's Misconduct; Ejectment--When Maintainable--Easements; Estate by Entirety--Effect of Murder of Wife by Husband; Evidence--Wife …

Note And Comment, Harry B. Hutchins, Frank L. Sage, Ralph W. Aigler, T. Harry Slusser, George Gardner

Michigan Law Review

American Bar Association Meeting; Disbarment or Suspension of Attorney; Is the Property Owner Negligent if He Fails to Exercise Reasonable Care to Prevent an Injury to An Infant Trespasser?; Liability of Water companies for Losses by Fire; Evidence in Deportation Proceedings Under the Act of congress of May 5th, 1892; Duty of a Bank to a Surety to Apply Funds of a Principal Debtor to Satisfy a Debt Due the Bank;

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Agency--Agent's Liability When Name of Principal is Undisclosed; Attorney and Client--Admission to Practice--Moral Character; Bailment--Hiring--Conversion; Bankruptcy--Attempted Assignment by Trustee to a Creditor of Fraudulently Acquired Property; Bankruptcy--Fraudulent Conveyance--Vendor's Lien; Banks and Banking--Pass Books--Duty of Depositor; Bills and Notes--Antecedent Debt Constitutes Value; Common Carriers--Special Service; Conflict of Laws--Defense to an Action of Tort; Constitutional law--due Process of Law--Equal Protection of the Laws--Service on State Auditor as Attorney for Corporation; Contracts--Right of Privacy--Breach of Trust; Corporations--Ultra Vires; criminal Procedure--Indictment Must Negative Exception in Statute; Damages--Measure--Medical Attendance--Loss of Business; Damages--Mental Suffering--Failure to Deliver Telegram Promptly; Deeds--Redelivery to the Grantor--Effect as to Title; Easements …

Note And Comment, Harry B. Hutchins, Ralph W. Aigler, Fabian B. Dodds, Justice Wilson

Michigan Law Review

What is the Practice of Medicine?; A Home Rule Charter and the Constitution; Recent Decisions on Trade-Marks and Unfair Trade; Liability of Anomalous or Irregular Indorser; Treatise Part of the Supreme Law of the Land;

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Attorney and Client--Unnecessary Services--Compensation; Bankruptcy--Title to Bankrupt's Property; Banks and Banking--Checks--Appropriation of Deposit--Garnishment; Chattel Mortgages--Retention of Possession and Power of Sale by Mortgagor--Fraud; Civil Rights--Power of Congress to Protect Against Individual Interference; Common Carriers--Limitation of Liability--Agreed Valuation; Constitutional Law--Delegation of Legislative Power--Regulations of Executive Departments; Constitutional Law--Regulation of Child Labor; Contracts--Mutuality--Consideration; Contracts--Restraint of Trade; Corporations--Misuse of Funds--Right of Stockholder to Sue; Corporations--Preferred Stock--Priorities--Cumulative Dividends; Covenants--Knowledge by the Grantee of Incumbrance; Criminal Law--conviction of Lesser Offense as Acquittal of Graver Offense--Former Jeopardy--Remanding Cause for Sentence; Damages--Mental Anguish--Undelivered Telegram; Deeds--Exceptions--Reservations--Abandonment of Right of Way--Reversion--Effect; Eminent Domain--Cemeteries; Evidence--Privileged Communications--Attorney and Client; Evidence--Res Gestae--Spontaneous …

Note And Comment, Justice Wilson, William B. Clark, James Harrington Boyd

Michigan Law Review

The Constitutionality of Statutory Restrictions Upon Sales of Merchandise; The Liability of a Collecting Bank for the Defaults of its Correspondents; Reasonable Regulation of Primary Elections; Assignment of Wages to be Earned in the Future in the Absence of a Contract of Employment Definite as to Time

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bankruptcy--"Mining" includes Quarrying; Bankruptcy--Persons Entitled to Oppose Discharge; Banks and Banking--Right of Drawer of Check to Stop its Payment; Bills and Notes--Trustees for Benefit of Creditors as Holders in Due course--Pre-Existing Debt Constitutes Value; Building Contracts--Provisions for Extra Work--Powers of Architect; Common Carriers--Delay Co-Operating with Act of God; Contracts--When a Breach on the Part of One party to a Contract Entitles the Other to Rescind; Criminal Law--Former Jeopardy; Damages--Recovery for Gratuitous Services; Deeds--Estate Granted--Conflict Between the Habendum and the Granting Clauses; Equity--Wills--Precatory Trust; Foreign Corporations--Statute Revoking License on Removal of a Cause to Federal Court; Husband and Wife--Purchase by Wife …

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Attorney--disbarment for Malpractice; Bills and Notes--Certification of Check; Bills and Notes--consideration--Illegal Use of Proceeds--Sunday Contracts; Bills and Notes--Notice of Protest; Carrier--Invalid Ticket--Tender of Cash Fare--Ejection of Passenger; Common Carriers--Express Companies--Municipal Tax on Delivery of Intoxicating Liquors--Mandamus to Compel Transportation; Common Carriers--Limitation of Liability by Special Contract--Hand Baggage; Constitutional Law--Obligation of Contract; Constitutional law--Privileges of Citizens--Interstate Commerce--Peddler's License; Corporations--conflict of Laws--Liability of Stockholders in Company Formed to Trade in a Foreign Country--Implied Authority to Pledge Personal Credit of Shareholders Under Foreign Law; Covenants--Privity of Estate; Criminal Law--False Pretenses--Post payable Check; Criminal Law--Presumption from Identity of Names; Deeds--Capacity of Grantor as Compared …

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Acknowledgement--Use of "He" Instead of "They"; Adverse Possession--Easement--License--Legal Maxim; Attachment--Conflict of Jurisdictoin--State and Federal Courts; Bills and Notes--Negotiability of Overdue Note; Bills and Notes--Presentment; Common Carriers--Fellow Servant Rule--Departmental Doctrine; Conspiracy--Recovery Against One Alone; Constitutional Law--County Taxes--Statutory Limitation--Impairment of Contracts; Constitutional Law--Search And Seizure--Due Process of Law; Constitutional Law--Sunday Law--Obligatory on Hebrews; Contracts to make a Particular Disposition of Property at Death--Specific Performance; Corporations--Banks and Banking--Negligence of Directors--Liability for Deceit--Liability to Creditors; Corporations--Issue of Convertible Bonds--Increase of Capital Stock--Preemptive Right of Stockholders; Covenants--Technical and Substantial Breach; Deeds--Condition Subsequent--Agreement to Support; Divorce--Alimony--Decree--Monion to Vacate; Dower--Rights of Divorced Wife; Eminent Domain--Telephone Poles in …

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Reivew

Michigan Law Review

Agency--Ratification--Action by Principal Based on His Own Ratification; Bailments--Negligence of Bailor and Bailee; Bills and Notes--Designation of Amount--Marginal Figures; Bills and Notes--Sufficiency of Plaintiff's Title; Bills and Notes--Rights of an Accommodation Maker; Carriers--Liability of Steamship Company for Loss of Passenger's Baggage; Common Carrers--Limitation of Liability by Special Contract--Exemption Includes Limitation; Constitutional Law--Game Laws; Constitutional Law--Habeas Corpus--Former Jeopardy; Contract for Sale of Realty--Rescission--Bringing Action not Sufficient Notice of Recission; Corporations--Foreign Corporations--Doing Business in the State--State Control--Taxation of Intra-State Business; Corporations--Illegal Payment of Dividends--Statuatory Liability of Directors--Discretion of Directors; Corporations--Ultra Vires Contract--Powers of Railroad Company--Estoppel; Criminal Law--Homicide--Threats by Deceased; Damages--Nursing by Husband …

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Reivew

Michigan Law Review

Acknowledgment--Notary Agent of Grantee--Extra Compensation for Securing Acknowledgment; Attachment of Real Property--Conflict of Jurisdiction--Federal and State Courts; Attorney and Client--Contract Between--Fraudulent Conveyance; Bankruptcy--Preferences--Securing Attorney's Fee; Banks--Liability of Private Banker; Common Carriers--Duty to Receive Helpless Persons as Passengers--Degree of Care Required When Accepted; Common Carriers--duty Toward Hackmen at Depots--May Discriminate; Constitutional Law--Impairing Obligation of Contract--Contracts with Waterworks Companies; Constitutional Law--License for Issuing Trading Stamps; Constitutional Law--Trading Stamp Laws; Corporations--amendment of Charter--Service on--Liberty to Contract; Corporations--Constitutional Law--Pools and Trusts--Foreign Insurance Companies; Criminal law--Written instructions to Jury; damages--Fright Unconnected with Physical Injury; Deed--description--Conveyance to Trustee--Necessity of Word "heirs"--Rule in Shelley's Case--Adverse Possession; Evidence--Corporations--Books …

Uniform State Laws Governing Negotiable Documents Of Title, Francis B. James

Michigan Law Review

Our forefathers, not foreseeing that the States would some day become one country for commercial purposes, failed to vest in Congress power to regulate all commerce, but limited that body to such as was interstate or foreign. An unexpected (and by many now believed erroneous) decision by the Supreme Court of the United States1 in 1869, that a contract between citizens of different states did not constitute interstate commerce, checked the growth of that unity of law so convenient in the development of industries, national in character. For one hundred years, from 1789, when the Constitution was adopted, to 1890, …

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Banks--Equity--Insolvency--Preference of Creditors; Banks--Special or General Deposit; Constitutional law--Due Process of Law; Constitutional Law--Right of Property; Contract--Liability for Breach in Discharge of a Professor; Corporations--Liability of Directors for Excessive Indebtedness; Criminal Law--Larceny Distinguished from False Pretenses; Criminal Law--Remarks of District Attorney--Appeals to Race Prejudice; Damages--Proper Averment in an Action for Deceit in the Sale of Realty; Easement--Right of Way--Immemorial Custom--Easements Appurtenant; Elections--Constitutionality of Law Changing Date--Holding Over; Evidence--Personal Injury--Physical Examination of Plaintiff; Evidence--Physical Examination of Accused; Evidence--Privileged Communication--County Attorney; Execution--Premature--Collateral Attack; Foreign Corporations--Service of Process on Officer; Homestead--Oral Contract for Conveyance--Specific Performance; Husband and Wife--Liability of Husband for the Support …

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Banks, National--Stockholders' Liability--Statute of Limitations; Bills and Notes--Indorsements Procured by Fraud; Carriers--Drover's pass--Release from Liability; Carriers--Unreasonable Freight Rates--Interstate Commerce Act--Common Law Remedy; Chattel Mortgages--Failure to Record--Mortgagor in Possession--Estoppel; Connecting Carriers--Loss of Goods--Liability; Constitutional Law--Civil Rights--Discrimination in Licenses; Constitutional Law--Eight Hour Law--Police Power--Health Regulations; Corporations--Duplicate Stock Certificate--Indemnity; Corporations--Subscription to Stock--Liability of Subscriber; Equity--Specific Performance--Contract to Make Will; Evidence--Physicians of conflicting Schools--Competency as Witnesses; Evidence--Radiograph--X-ray; Garnishment--One Railroad as Debtor of Another; Husband and Wife--Application of Doctrine of Tenancy by Entireties to Personality; Husband and Wife--Indebtedness to Wife--Notes--Presumption of Payment; Judgment--Default--appearance; Libel--Publishing of a White Man that He is "Colored"; Master and Servant--Concurrent …

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Attachment--Equity Decree in Support of; Bankruptcy--Attachment--Sheriff's Fees; Bankruptcy--title of Trustee--Validity and Preservation of Liens; Bills and Notes--Discharge of Endorser of Check--Waiver; Bills and notes--Indorsement of Payee Forged by Drawer--Recovery by Drawee; Constitutional law--Equal Protection of the Laws--master and Servant--Railroad Fellow Servants' Act; Corporate Stock--Statute Requiring Registration of Transfer--Attachment; Criminal law--Evidence--confidential Communications--Letters from Accused to Wife; Dead body--Action for Mutilation; Deeds--Delivery--Estoppel; Deeds--Fraudulent Conveyance--bona Fide Purchaser from Fraudulent Grantee; Domicil--Election--Residence and Intention; Ejectiment--By Railroad Company for Right of Way; Equity--navigable Waters--Obstruction--Special Injury; Equity--Personal Trespass--Injunction; Foreign Corporations--Failure to Comply with Laws--Effect on Contracts; Judicial Officer--Liability of Inferior Judicial Officer Acting Under a Void …

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Adverse Possession--Boundaries--Mistake; Attachment--Fraudulent Conveyance--Damages for Breach of Promise of Marriage; Bailments--Liability of Private Carrier on a Special Contract; Bailments--Loss of Goods Resulting from Violation of Ordinance; Constitutional Law--Equal Protection of the Laws--Due Process--State's control of Fish and Game; Contributory Negligence--Passenger on Car Platform; Conveyance--Standing Timber--Recording--Bona Fide Purchaser; Deeds--Building Restrictions--Easements; Deeds--Rule in Shelley's Case; Equity--Mistake of Fact--Negligence; Evidence--Photograph--X-Ray; Executors and Administrators--Liability of Executrix to Account fo rTrust Estate Held by Her Testator; Foreign Corporations--Interstate Commerce; Garnishment--Situs of Debt; Gift-Parent and Child--Undue Influence--Presumption; Guardian and Ward--Filling of Blank After Execution; married Women--Separate Estate--Note and Mortgage to Secure Husband's Debt; Master and Servant--Independent …

Securities Arbitrations Involving Mortgage-Backed Securities And Collateralized Mortgage Obligations: Suitable For Unsuitability Claims?, Bradley J. Bondi

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Agency--Husband as Agent of Wife in Transfer of Real Property; Assignment of Insurance Policy--Change of Beneficiary; Banks--Deposits Made by Estate in Trust for Another; Chattel Mortgages--When Void as Against Trustee in Bankruptcy of Mortgagor; Constitutional Law--Class Legislation--Restrictions upon Building and Loan Associations; Corporations--Foreign, Transacting Business in State--Right of Action--Condition Precedent--Interstate Commerce; Corporations, Insolvent--Preferring Creditors--Directors; Damages--Breach of Contract; Damages--Mental Suffering Unconnected with Physical; Deeds--Delivery to a Third Person--Requisites; Deeds--Signing by One not Named as Grantor; Election Contest--Tie Votes--Effect; Injunction--Special Injury--Street Improvement; Insolvency of Building and Loan Associations--Borrowing Shareholder--Credits; Insurance--Delay in Making Proofs of Death when Blanks were to be Furnished by …

Negotiable Instruments Law Its History And Its Practical Operation, Amasa M. Eaton

Michigan Law Review

July 1 1878, several leading lawyers in different states, public spirited men, issued a call for a meeting, to form an American Bar Association. Pursuant to this call seventy-five prominent members of the bar and others, interested in the proposal met at Saratoga Springs, New York, August 21, 1878, and the American Bar Association came into being.

The first object of the Association, as stated in the call for this meeting, was "to assimilate the laws of the different states," and the first article of the Constitution as then adopted and as it still stands, is as follows:

"Its object …