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Recent Case Comments, Law Review Staff Dec 1962

Recent Case Comments, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Law Review

Conflict of Laws--Full Faith and Credit--Prior Conflicting Divorce Decrees

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Conflict of Laws--Tax Claims of One State Held Not Enforceable in Another State

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Constitutional Law--Discrimination--Statute Prohibiting Racial Discrimination in Renting of Private Apartment Houses Does Not Violate Due Process

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Constitutional Law--Establishment of Religion--Recitation of State Composed Prayer in Public Schools Held Unconstitutional

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Criminal Law--Narcotics-Criminal Prosecution for Addiction Is a Cruel and Unusual Punishment Violating Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments

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Damages--Collateral Source Rule--Value of Medical Services Plaintiff Received as a Gratuity Not Allowed as Special Damages

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Due Process--Taxation of Insurance Premiums Paid to Foreign Insurers on Property …


Criminal Law--Presence Of Accused At Trial, Thomas Edward Mchugh Dec 1962

Criminal Law--Presence Of Accused At Trial, Thomas Edward Mchugh

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Remarks About Appeal As Prejudicial In Criminal Cases Sep 1962

Remarks About Appeal As Prejudicial In Criminal Cases

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Burden Of Proof As To Perpetrators Of Crimes Sep 1962

Burden Of Proof As To Perpetrators Of Crimes

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Companion Of The New Hampshire Doctrine Of Criminal Insanity, John Reid Jun 1962

The Companion Of The New Hampshire Doctrine Of Criminal Insanity, John Reid

Vanderbilt Law Review

The problem of criminal responsibility is one of the most difficult in criminal law. Of the various solutions that have been devised, the author suggests that the New Hampshire-Scottish approach--with its emphasis on insanity as a question of fact for the jury--is the most desirable.


Subnormal Mentality As A Defense In The Criminal Law, John E.V. Pieski Jun 1962

Subnormal Mentality As A Defense In The Criminal Law, John E.V. Pieski

Vanderbilt Law Review

Although little is left of the theory which ascribed to mental deficiency causative force in criminal conduct, the entire episode taught at least two valuable lessons to modem criminologists. First, it served as a warning against superficial research and hasty conclusions, thus inducing subsequent scholars to take a more scientific approach to similar problems. Second, it aided in alerting others that, although not all or even most criminals are mentally deficient, there are an appreciable number of criminals who possess a subnormal mentality, and who must be reckoned within the criminal law. Notwithstanding that the legal profession has utilized the …


Criminal Law And Procedure -- 1961 Tennessee Survey (Ii), Robert E. Kendrick Jun 1962

Criminal Law And Procedure -- 1961 Tennessee Survey (Ii), Robert E. Kendrick

Vanderbilt Law Review

In reviewing Cowan v.State, the Tennessee Supreme Court noted the following facts: Defendant, seeing an automobile stop at an isolated spot on a so-called "lovers' lane," approached it by way of a woods, being unseen by the two teen-age couples in the automobile until he was quite nearby. The occupants' attempt to drive away was thwarted by the defendant's exhibiting and threatening to use a pistol, warning against further escape attempts, and demanding and receiving the ignition key. He then insisted that the girls have sexual intercourse with him; and when they refused, he stated that he would not "take …


Book Reviews, Law Review Staff Jun 1962

Book Reviews, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Law Review

Decision at Law

By David W. Peck.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.,1961. Pp. vii, 303.

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Corporation Lawyer: Saint or Sinner? By Beryl Harold Levy.

Philadelphia and New York: Chilton Co., 1961. Pp. x, 175.

reviewer: Elliott E. Cheatham

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Criminal Psychology Edited by Richard W. Nice. New York: Philosophical Library, Inc., 1962. Pp. 284.

reviewer: J. Paschall Davis

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Symposium on the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 Edited by Ralph Slovenko. Baton Rouge: Claitor's Bookstore, 1961. Pp. xliv, 1237. $20.00.

reviewer: Robert N. Covington

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Handling Accident Cases, Vol. 3

By Albert Averbach.

Rochester: The Lawyers …


Criminal Law--Shoplifting--Lack Of Requirement Of Intent Does Not Invalidate Statute, David Mayer Katz Jun 1962

Criminal Law--Shoplifting--Lack Of Requirement Of Intent Does Not Invalidate Statute, David Mayer Katz

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Criminal Law--Defense Of Others, Charles Henry Rudolph Jr. Apr 1962

Criminal Law--Defense Of Others, Charles Henry Rudolph Jr.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Donnelly, Goldstein & Schwartz: Criminal Law, B. J. George Jr. Mar 1962

Donnelly, Goldstein & Schwartz: Criminal Law, B. J. George Jr.

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Criminal Law. By Richard C. Donnelly, Joseph Goldstein and Richard D. Schwartz.


The Scientific And Humane Study Of Criminal Law, Jerome Hall Jan 1962

The Scientific And Humane Study Of Criminal Law, Jerome Hall

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.