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Note And Comment, Joseph J. Kennedy, Samuel H. Morris, Burke W. Shartel, George S. Burgess
Note And Comment, Joseph J. Kennedy, Samuel H. Morris, Burke W. Shartel, George S. Burgess
Michigan Law Review
Attendance at the Law School; An Extreme Case in the Application of the Safety Appliance Act; Advisory Opinions; Refusal of Specific Performance Where Subsequent Unexpected Events Render it Inequitable; Is Vasectomy a Cruel Punishment
The Liability Of A Principal For The Penal Or Criminal Acts Of His Agent, Floyd R. Meechem
The Liability Of A Principal For The Penal Or Criminal Acts Of His Agent, Floyd R. Meechem
Michigan Law Review
What Here Involved. In a previous article the question of the liability of a principal or master for the wilful or malicious acts of his servant or agent, was considered. It is proposed here to consider the liability of a principal or master for the penal or criminal acts of his agent or servant. This will involve two aspects: (a) The civil liability of the principal or master, and (b) His penal or criminal liability.
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
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 …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
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 …
The Need Of A Scientific Study Of Crime, Crimninal Law, And Procedure--The American Institute Of Criminal Law And Criminology, Eugene A. Gilmore
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 …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Army and Navy--Enlistment of Minor--Discharge; arrest--Authority to Arrest Without Warrant--"In His Presence"--"Within His Immediate Knowledge"; Bankruptcy--The Right of a Wife to Recover an Equitable Claim Against Her Husband's Estate in Bankruptcy; Bankruptcy--Title of Trustee as Against Unrecorded Contract of Conditional Sale--Effect of Amendment of 1910; Banks and Banking--Entry of Deposit for Collection--Insolvency of Banks Agent; Bills and Notes--Stipulations for Attorney's Fees--Validity; Corporations--Sale by Corporation to Sole Stockholder--Notice; Criminal Law--Adjournment of Court to House of a Sick Witness; Criminal Law--Error in Admission of Evidence; Damages--Breach of Contract to Carry Dead Body; Damages--Denial of Recovery for Mental Suffering Under Statute; Equity--Equitable Set-Off …
Note And Comment, Paul P. Farrens, Langdon H. Larwill, Leonard F. Martin
Note And Comment, Paul P. Farrens, Langdon H. Larwill, Leonard F. Martin
Michigan Law Review
The Latest Step in the Expansion of the Commerce Clause of the Federal Constitution; The Right of a Trustee of a Bankrupt Partnership to Administer the Individual Estate of an Unadjudicated Partner Against His Will or Consent; Presumption in Favor of Reply Letters; A Novel Case Upon the Question of What Constitutes Former Jeopardy
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Adverse Possession--Hostile Character--Possession Under Executory Contract for Sale; Bills and Notes--Bona Fide Purchase--Effect of Taking After Maturity; Bills and Notes--Bona Fide Purchase--Payment of Forged Check--Recovery of Payment; Bills and Notes--Invalidity of Note--Recovery Upon Original Consideration; Constitutional law--Due Process of Law--Situs of Ship for Purposes of Taxation; contracts--Sufficiency of Typewritten Signature; Copyright--Moving Pictures as Dramatization of Book; Corporations--Stockholder's Meetings--Effect of Withdrawal of Stockholders; Courts--The New Commerce Court--Jurisdiction--First Decision; Covenants Running with the Land--Building Restrictions; Damages--Excessiveness--Personal Injuries--Remittitur; Dead Bodies--Burial Determination of Place; Easements--Merger--Use by Owner of Servient Estate--Adverse Possession; Homicide--Burden of Proof When Insanity is a Defense; Intoxicating Liquors--Illegal Sale--"Dispensing"; Judgment--Collateral Attack--Defective …