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A Monograph On Religious Freedom, Benjamin G. Reeder Apr 1925

A Monograph On Religious Freedom, Benjamin G. Reeder

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Intoxicating Liquors--Searches And Seizures--Construction, C. M. L. Jr. Apr 1925

Intoxicating Liquors--Searches And Seizures--Construction, C. M. L. Jr.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Judicial Review Of Executive Acts, Albert Levitt Apr 1925

The Judicial Review Of Executive Acts, Albert Levitt

Michigan Law Review

The relation of the judiciary to the executive branch of the Government is a perplexing one. According to the Constitution, the government of the United States is threefold in character, legislative, executive and judicial. Each of these is supposed to be independent of the others. One cannot usurp the function of any one of the others. At the same time, this is a "Government of laws and not of men." It is equally true that this is a government of laws and not of political subdivisions or of the subdivisions of governmental mechanisms. Legislators, executives and judiciary must abide by …


Conflict Of Laws Rules As Constitutional Limitations Apr 1925

Conflict Of Laws Rules As Constitutional Limitations

Michigan Law Review

With the constant growth of the United States as a commercial nation, it has been inevitable that state lines should figure in business transactions to an ever diminishing extent. Business relations, keeping pace with the rapid development of modem means of transportation, have increasingly assumed an interstate aspect. With this extension of commercial dealings, the question of the legal rights of the parties so engaged has frequently arisen. Diversity of local rules of law has led to much litigation and disagreement. Differences in local rules might be overcome through the services of competent commercial lawyers, and contracts might then be …


Book Reviews Apr 1925

Book Reviews

Michigan Law Review

A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.


Constitutional Law-Jury Trial For Contempt-Constitutionality Of Clayton Act Mar 1925

Constitutional Law-Jury Trial For Contempt-Constitutionality Of Clayton Act

Michigan Law Review

The defendants, striking employees of a railway company, were proceeded against in a federal district court for contempt in violating a preliminary injunction, and demanded a jury trial under the Clayton Act (c. 323, 38 STAT. 738, sec. 21, 22), which provides that in cases of wilful disobedience of "any lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command of any District court of the United States or any court of the District of Columbia by doing any act or thing" forbidden, if such act or thing also constitutes a criminal offense under any statute of the United States or law …


Early Frontier Democracy In The First Kentucky Constitution, E. Merton Coulter Feb 1925

Early Frontier Democracy In The First Kentucky Constitution, E. Merton Coulter

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Distinction Between Governmental And Proprietary Functions Of Municipal Corporations, Delmar W. Doddridge Feb 1925

Distinction Between Governmental And Proprietary Functions Of Municipal Corporations, Delmar W. Doddridge

Michigan Law Review

There are many places in the law where the making of a distinction has resulted in a difficulty in application that has greatly increased litigation, but there are few places where this is more true than in the distinction made between the governmental and the proprietary functions of municipal corporations. The distinction has taken a firm grip upon the law of municipal corporations and seems well settled, although its propriety as applied to particular subjects may be doubted. The terminology of the distinction is in itself productive of doubt, the function or duty in the one branch being denominated "governmental", …


Constitutional Law-Restricting Liberty Without Due Process Of Law-Extorted Confessions Feb 1925

Constitutional Law-Restricting Liberty Without Due Process Of Law-Extorted Confessions

Michigan Law Review

Of recent years the administration of criminal justice has increased many-fold, owing to the constantly increasing size of our great cities and the period of growing social unrest in which we find ourselves. Public opinion has demanded a more effective mode of dealing with those who break the law with seeming impunity. In view of this attitude it is only natural that in a particularly baffling crime the police should seek to obtain some clue of the criminals by grilling suspects. This has resulted in many cases in acts which to say the least are over-zealous. In a recent case …


Crimes-Arrest-Reasonable Cause To Believe Feb 1925

Crimes-Arrest-Reasonable Cause To Believe

Michigan Law Review

The admission of evidence was objected to, in a recent case, on the ground that it had been illegally secured. Officers had arrested the defendant without a warrant, on a charge of illegally transporting liquor. He was in fact guilty of the offense for which arrested, but contended that the evidence secured by the arrest could not be used. The circuit court of appeals phrased the issue thus : ''Was there probable cause for the officers to believe (that the felony was being committed), or were the facts sufficient to give rise merely to a suspicion thereof? If the former, …


Our Constitutional Prohibition Against Unreasonable Searches And Seizures, Flem D. Sampson Jan 1925

Our Constitutional Prohibition Against Unreasonable Searches And Seizures, Flem D. Sampson

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The Pardon Power, Orie S. Ware Jan 1925

The Pardon Power, Orie S. Ware

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Constitutionality Of Zoning Ordinances, George W. Meuth Jan 1925

Constitutionality Of Zoning Ordinances, George W. Meuth

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Validity Of Statute Barring Negroes From Primary Elections Jan 1925

Constitutional Validity Of Statute Barring Negroes From Primary Elections

Michigan Law Review

The history of suffrage in the South during the last thirty-five years has been largely a story of the adoption and administration of discriminatory regulations devised to catch the negro without debarring any considerable number of white people. This legal disfranchisement has been accomplished by property or educational qualifications possessed generally by whites but not by negroes, or by giving a great deal of discretion to election and registration officials, who, understanding what is expected of them, find quite uniformly that the negroes do not meet the requirements while the white applicants generally do. How the letter of the Fifteenth …


Recent Important Decisions Jan 1925

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


Religious Freedom Under Our Constitution, William Bruce Hoff Dec 1924

Religious Freedom Under Our Constitution, William Bruce Hoff

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Law-Liberty Of Contract-Regulation Of Loaves Of Bread Nov 1924

Constitutional Law-Liberty Of Contract-Regulation Of Loaves Of Bread

Michigan Law Review

A Nebraska statute aimed at short weights in loaves of bread, forbade the manufacture or sale of loaves weighing either more or less than specified standard amounts. It applied only to quantities of 25 loaves or more and a "tolerance" of two ounces per pound was allowed in excess of the standard weights, to be measured by taking an average of the whole consignment. The prohibition of excess weights was explained by the Nebraska court as an attempt "to prevent a loaf of one standard from being increased in size until it can readily be sold for a larger standard". …


Fair Value Of Public Utilities, Edwin C. Goddard Jun 1924

Fair Value Of Public Utilities, Edwin C. Goddard

Michigan Law Review

Such being the decisions, we turn to the practical working of the theories that have been applied. The law is a practical subject. Even in so sacred a matter as protection of property, rules of law should regard the practical results of any theory. A theory that works badly, presumptively at least, is defective, and may be wrong. The guaranties of the Constitution were made for man, not man for the guaranties, and a conception of property that does not work out for the advantage of man may raise a query whether the Constitution demands that conception. It was that …


Evidence--Admissibility Of Evidence Secured Through Violation Of Constitutional Prohibitions May 1924

Evidence--Admissibility Of Evidence Secured Through Violation Of Constitutional Prohibitions

Michigan Law Review

No other questions are oftener before our courts in these latter days than those which concern the admissibility of evidence objected to under the various constitutional provisions, state and national, providing against unreasonable searches and seizures, and compulsory self-crimination.


Book Reviews May 1924

Book Reviews

Michigan Law Review

A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.


Constitutional Rights And The Industrial Struggle, Sidney Post Simpson Apr 1924

Constitutional Rights And The Industrial Struggle, Sidney Post Simpson

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Criminal Law--Evidence Obtained By Illegal Search And Seizure, R. M. M. Apr 1924

Criminal Law--Evidence Obtained By Illegal Search And Seizure, R. M. M.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Law-Interstate Commerce-The Transportation Act Of 1920 Apr 1924

Constitutional Law-Interstate Commerce-The Transportation Act Of 1920

Michigan Law Review

Contemporaneous comments on Supreme Court decisions involving the "due process" clause too often resolve themselves into mere "debates" as to the wisdom of the particular legislation in question, either from the standpoint of the ultimate object to be accomplished or the methods adopted for its accomplishment. Strongest adherents of our unique system of judicial review must admit that, after all, the duty of the Supreme Court consists primarily in determining whether or not the legislation before it is valid, not whether it is, or is not, a politic enactment.


Book Reviews Mar 1924

Book Reviews

Michigan Law Review

A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.


Aliens-Right To Own Or Lease Land-Effect Of "Equal Protection" Clause Feb 1924

Aliens-Right To Own Or Lease Land-Effect Of "Equal Protection" Clause

Michigan Law Review

Right of alien residents under the "equal protection" clause of- the federal Constitution received further delimitation in the Alien Land Law Cases, decisions handed down last November. Terrace v. Thompson (U. S. 1923), Adv. Ops. 35, and Porterfield v. Webb, Adv. Ops. 42. In the former case the court was concerned with a Washington statute passed to enforce a provision in the Washington constitution that forbade the ownership of land by any aliens other than those who had in good faith declared their intention to become citizens. The California statute in the second case differed chiefly in limiting its …


Real Property-Alienation-Limitation Feb 1924

Real Property-Alienation-Limitation

Michigan Law Review

In the field of property as in that of personal rights (including contract) we still encounter occasionally the specter of certain supposedly absolute rights. The courts have had to declare often enough that the owner's rights of use are limited by the like rights of other owners, by considerations of public policy, public convenience, etc.; it is not so often that a court deals explicitly with the limitations upon an owner's power of disposing and leasing his property. In Terrace v. Thompson, recently decided by the United States Supreme Court (Nov. 12, 1923) it was urged by a United …


Constitutional Law--"Liberty" Under Fourteenth Amendment--Validity Of Foreign Languages Statutes Jan 1924

Constitutional Law--"Liberty" Under Fourteenth Amendment--Validity Of Foreign Languages Statutes

Michigan Law Review

Nine states during the months immediately following the conclusion of the World War passed statutes in substantially the same language, forbidding the teaching of any modem language except English to children below the eighth grade in any school, private or public. Ohio also passed a law applying only to the German language. Teachers in Nebraska, Iowa, and Ohio were convicted during 1920 and 1921 of violating these statutes and, after the supreme courts of the various states had held them valid, their cases were combined in an appeal to the United States Supreme Court. Held, the statutes deprived appellants …


The Treaty Power, Connor Hall Jan 1924

The Treaty Power, Connor Hall

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Nature And Effect Of Changes In Constitutions, C. B. Seymour Jan 1924

The Nature And Effect Of Changes In Constitutions, C. B. Seymour

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Washington's First Constitution, 1878, And Proceedings Of The Convention Jan 1924

Washington's First Constitution, 1878, And Proceedings Of The Convention

Selected Books and Theses

No abstract provided.