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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Reviw May 1908

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Reviw

Michigan Law Review

Adverse Possession--Property Subject to Highways; Agency--Brokers--Commissions--When Earned; Bankruptcy--Acts of Bankruptcy--Payment with Intent to Prefer a Creditor; Bankruptcy--Jurisdiction of Court--Suits Between Trustee and Claimants of Property--Suites Against Trustee; Bills and Notes--Nonnegotiable Notes--Liability of Indorser; Bonds--Joint Stock Association--Negotiability; Carriers--Free Transportation as a Penalty; Carriers--Waiver of Stipulations as to Suits; Constitutional Law--Due Process of Law--Indeterminate Sentence Law; Constitutional Law--corporations--Foreign Corporations--Exclusion For Removal of Cause to Federal Courts; Constitutional law--Powers of Constitutional Convention; Criminal Law--Capital Offense--Bail--When Granted; Criminal Law--Murder--Elements of Murder; Damages--Action by Husband for Loss of Wife's Services; Damages--Failure to Deliver Telegram--Mental Suffering--Near Relative; Deeds--Joiner of Infant Husband; Divorce--Temporary Alimony and Counsel Fees--Appeal--Decisions …


Note And Comment Apr 1908

Note And Comment

Michigan Law Review

The Case of Bigelow v. Calumet and Hecla Mining Company et al., Involving the Question of the Control by One Corporation of a Competing Corporation; The right of the Federal or a State government to Maintain an Action for the Recovery of Taxes; Liability of a Life Insurance Company When the Insured is Executed for the Commission of a Crime; Jurisdiction of a Court of Equity to Restrain the Commission of Criminal Acts; Municipal Contracts for Patented or Proprietary Paving


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Apr 1908

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Adoption--Defect in Proceedings--Effect; Bankruptcy--Equitable Rights under Unrecorded Mortgage--Agreement to Insure--Equitable Lien on Insurance Money; Bankruptcy--Insolvent Firm--Individual Estate of Unadjudicated Solvent Partner Not Subject to Administration; Bills and Notes--Liability of Indorser of Non-Negotiable Note; Bills and Notes--Liability of Irregular Indorser; Carriers--Wrongful Treatment of Passengers--Damages for Mental Suffering; Constitutional Law--Imprisonment for Debt--Peonage; Constitutional Law--Interstate Commerce--Shipments Within a State; Corporations--Foreign Corporations--Effect of Withdrawal From State--Validity of Service; Courts--Jurisdiction--Action Under the Laws of Another State; Covenants--Running with the Land; Damages--Destruction of Growing Grass; Evidence--Admissibility of a Deed as an Ancient Document; Evident--Admissions in Pleading; Garnishment--Nonresident Defendant--Jurisdiction; Jury--Right to Trial by Twelve Jurors--Waiver of Jury; …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Mar 1908

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bankruptcy--Assignment--Validity--Possession of Res.; Carriers--Assaults by Employees on Passengers; Constitutional Law--Judicial Powers--Legislative Action of City Council Not Enjoined; Constitutional Law--Privileges and Immunities; Constitutional Law--Taxation of Imports; Contracts--Accord and Satisfaction--Consideration; Corporations--Liability of Bondholders on "Bonus Stock"; Covenants--Creation by Acceptance of Deed Poll; Criminal Law--Habeas Corpus--Want of Jurisdiction; Damages--For Wrongful Cutting of Timber--Value of the Manufactured Lumber; Evidence--Admissions of a Tenant in Common; Evidence--Effect of Plaintiff's Refusal to Submit to Physical Examination; Equity--Laches; foreign Corporations--What Constitutes "doing Business" in the State--Restrictions on State in Case of Interstate Commerce; Injunction--Suspension of Operative Force Pending Appeal; Judgment--conclusiveness--Matters Concluded; Judgment--foreign Judgment--Enforcement; Landlord and Tenant--Trade Fixtures--Right of …


Note And Comment, Edson R. Sunderland, John E. Winner, Stephen W. Downey Mar 1908

Note And Comment, Edson R. Sunderland, John E. Winner, Stephen W. Downey

Michigan Law Review

Power of Municipal Corporations to Grant Exclusive Privileges; Police Regulation of Sleeping Car Berths; The Liability of a Husband for Slander and Libel Committed by His Wife; Sufficiency of a Verdict Which Fails to Fix the Time of an Attempt to Commit Burglary, the Punishment Varying With the Time; Grantor's Remedy on Breach of Condition Subsequent;


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Feb 1908

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 …


Ignorance And Mistake In The Criminal Law, Edwin Roulette Keedy Jan 1908

Ignorance And Mistake In The Criminal Law, Edwin Roulette Keedy

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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Dec 1907

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Agency--Evidence of Performance--right to Compensation--Acting for both Parties; Assignment for Benefit of Creditors--Marshaling Assets; Bonds--Bona Fide Purchasers--Mandamus--Redemption of Bonds; Carriers--may, as Lessors, Contract for Total Exemption from Liability for Negligence; Constitutional law--Jurisdiction of Federal Courts to Review Contempt Proceedings in State Court; Contracts--Accord and Satisfaction--Consideration; Criminal Law--Venue--Statutes--Validity; Damages--Conversion; Deeds--Construction--Intent of Parties; Deeds--Seal Essential; Dower--rights of Widow Pending Assignment--Possession of Lands; Eminent domain--Interurban Railways; Evidence--Presumption as to Foreign Law; Fee Simple Estate--Restraints on Alienation; Fraudulent Conveyances--Sales in Bulk--Validity as Between the Parties--Lien for Price; Husband and Wife--Separation Agreements--Validity; Insurance--Fire--Concurrent Insurance; Insurance--Mutual Benefit--Unreasonable Change of By-Laws; Judgment--Res Judicata; Master and Servant--Liability of …


Note And Comment, Henry M. Bates, Robert M. See, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Clyde A. Dewitt Nov 1907

Note And Comment, Henry M. Bates, Robert M. See, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Clyde A. Dewitt

Michigan Law Review

Courts--Jurisdiction of Circuit Court--Enjoining Writ of Error; Criminal Law--Arraignment--Waiver; Damages--Personal Injuries--Expense of Nursing; Deeds--Boundaries--Navigable Waters; Deeds--Variance Between Granting Clause and Habendum--Construction; Eminent Domain--Use of Urban Street Car Lines by Interurban Cars; Evidence--Admissibility of Statement of One Partner to a Commercial Agency as to Asset and Liabilities; Evidence--Admission of a Carbon Copy of a Contract as a Duplicate Original; Federal Courts--jurisdiction--Action Against State Officers; Foreign Corporations--Liability to be Sued; Homicide--Self-Defense--Provoking Difficulty; Insurance--Certificate Silent as to Suicide; Joint Stock Associations--have they at Common law Powers and Privileges of a Corporation not Possessed by Individuals or Partnerships?; Municipal corporations--Protecting Against Fraud by Ordinance--Sale …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Nov 1907

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;


Note And Comment, Harry B. Hutchins, Ralph W. Aigler, T. Harry Slusser, Ivan E. Chapman May 1907

Note And Comment, Harry B. Hutchins, Ralph W. Aigler, T. Harry Slusser, Ivan E. Chapman

Michigan Law Review

The James McMillan Memorial Association; Liability of Hospitals for the Negligence of Their Physicians and Nurses; Intent in Embezzlement by Corporate Official; The Validity of the Initiative and Referendum; Scope of Review, on Appeal from Decision of State Board of Health, Revoking Certificate to Practice Medicine; What are the Rights of a Person Under a Promise to do That Which He was Already under Obligation to Do?;


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review May 1907

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 …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Apr 1907

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Aliens - Right to Take Land by Descent - Loss of State's Right to Escheat; Bailment - Liability of Incidental Bailee; Bankruptcy - Preferences - Franchise Tax; Bankruptcy - Transfers Required to be Recorded - Preferences; Bills and Notes - Bona Fide Purchaser - Notice of Want of Power in Transferrer; Bills and Notes - Unrestricted Negotiability of Bills of Lading; Constitutional Law - Commerce Clause - Statute Relating to Interstate Carriers as Employers; Constitutional Law - Indeterminate Sentence Law; Courts - Rules of Property - Stare Decisis; Criminal Law - Exclusion of Public from Trials; Criminal Law - Impeachment …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Mar 1907

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 …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jan 1907

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 …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Dec 1906

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bankruptcy--Action by Trustee--Right of Set-Off; Bills and Notes--forged Check--Payment--Recovery Back; Boundaries--Artificial Bodies of Water; Carriers--who are Passengers--Fraud in Securing Carriage; Corporations--Exclusive Privileges--Statutory Construction; Corporations--Penal Offense--Construction of Statute; Costs--change of Venue--Liability of County; Criminal law--Proximate Cause--Deposit of Obscene Matter in the Mail; Damages--Status of Dead Bodies--Mutilation--Mental Suffering; Easements--Adverse Possession--Color of Title; Eminent Domain--Telephone Poles in Highway--No Additional Burden; Equity--Injunction Against Prosecution; Evidence--Aliens--Burden of Proof in Deportation Proceedings; False Imprisonment--Joinder of Causes of Action; Garnishment--Liability of Executor; Homestead--alienation by Widow--Abandonment--Limitation of Actions; Insurance--Interest of Owner in Property--Sole and Unconditional Owner; Insurance--Sale of One Company to Another--rights of Policy-Holders and Agents of the …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Nov 1906

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 Jun 1906

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 Reivew Apr 1906

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 …


Extra-Territorial Jurisdiction In China, Gustavus Ohlinger Mar 1906

Extra-Territorial Jurisdiction In China, Gustavus Ohlinger

Michigan Law Review

The Chinese have long been accustomed to the presence in their midst of foreign populations governed by laws peculiar to themselves and, perchance, owing allegiance to a foreign sovereignty. As long ago as the eighth century the Arabian traders who resorted to Canton were permitted to govern themselves by their own laws. The Mohaminedans have for many centuries formed a distinct element in the population, being subject to a separate law and to their own authorities. When, therefore, in the sixteenth century the first European traders began to appear on the China coast the government treated them as they had …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Mar 1906

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Arbitration and Award--By-Laws of Board of Trade--Ousting Courts' Jurisdiction; Bills and Notes--Accommodation Indorsement--Conflict of Laws; Bills and Notes--Material Alteration; Common Carriers--Duty to Notify Passenger of Arrival at His Destination--Must Awaken Sleeping Passenger if His Destination is Known; Constitutional Law--Anti-Trust Laws--Equal Protection of the Laws; Constitutional Law--Insurance--State Statutes Prohibiting Combinations Among Insurance Companies--Do Not Violate Fourteenth Amendment; Constitutional Law--Prosecution by Information due Process of Law; Contracts--Agreement to Employ Only Members of a Certain Union; Contracts--Public Policy--Location of Depots; Corporations--Reduction of Stock--Equitable Relief--Powers of Officers; Corporations--Suit by Stockholders--Refusal of Directors to Sue; Corporations--Suit in Stockholders' Names--Device to Confer Jurisdiction on Federal Courts; …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Reivew Feb 1906

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 …


A Digest Of Important Cases On The Law Of Crimes, John R. Rood Jan 1906

A Digest Of Important Cases On The Law Of Crimes, John R. Rood

Books

“In selecting the cases to be abridged, an effort has been made to choose those that have drawn the most attention, comment, and citation. The reputation of each case is shown to the reader in part by reference to the various collections of important cases on crimes which have been included….”--Preface.


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Nov 1905

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 Apr 1905

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 …


Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review Nov 1904

Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Lawyers and Jurists at the Exposition; Convention of the Commercial Law League of America; The Philippine Island Cases in the Supreme Court of the United States; The Writ of Habeas Corpus in Chinese Exclusion Cases; What is a "Crime" Within the Meaning of the Constitution?; Due Process of Law; Winding up Proceedings; Literary Criticism and the Law of Libel; The New Japanese Civil Code;


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review May 1904

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Administrator--Appointment of, on Disappearance of Person; Agency--collection of Notes--Possession of the Instrument--Apparent Authority; Appeal--Right to Appeal After Satisfaction of Judgment; Attorney and Client--divorce Cases--contingent Fees--Prevention of Reconciliation; Attorneys--disbarment--Attacking Honesty of Judge; Bankruptcy--city Taxes--Priority; Carriers--Death by Wrongful Act--Stipulations Avoiding Liability for Negligence Toward free Passenger--Validity and Effect; Carriers--signed Ticket not the Contract; Constitutional Law--Class Legislation--Use of Flag for Advertising Purposes; Constitutional Law--Jurisdiction of Equity to Try Title to Office--Injunction; Contract--Validity--Conditions Attached to Goods--Purchase by Retail Trader from Wholesale Trader with Notice; corporations--forfeiture of Charter--Mandamus; Corporations--Garnishment of Stockholder for Unpaid Subscription; Criminal Law--Self-Defense; Deeds--Delivery--Testamentary Disposition; Ejectment--Description--Verdict--Judgment; Ejectment--Equitable Title in Plaintiff; Evidence--Admissions--Abandoned Pleadings; …


Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review Apr 1904

Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A National Incorporation Law; The Northern Securities Case; Controversies Between States; Liability of Members of Congress for Bribery; Exempting of Lawyers from Service of Civil Process While Attending Court; Law Governing the Validity of a Note Executed and Delivered in One State, But Payable in Another


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Apr 1904

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Acknowledgment--Who may Take--Stockholder; Action for Death of a Child-- Contributory Negligence; Adverse Possession--Computation of Time--Litigation in Land Office; Bankruptcy--Homestead--Jurisdiction of bankruptcy Court; Chattel Mortgages--Unidentified Number Among a Greater Number of Like Articles--Validity; Constitutional Law--Possession of Game fish in Closed Season; Constitutional Law--Special Act--Sunday Law; Contracts--Impossibility of Performance--Implied Condition; Contracts--Violation of Penal Statute--Transaction Void; corporations--Dissolution--Rights of Minority Stockholders; Corporations--Insolvency--Preferences to Officers; Equity--Jurisdiction--Partition--Oil Leases; Judgments--Absence of Jurisdiction--Injunction--Restraining Execution; Master and Servant--False Imprisonment--Duty of Merchant to Customers; Master and Servant--Fellow Servants--Assumed risks--Injuries to Servant While off Duty; Minor's enlistment in the Navy--Validity--Desertion--Arrest--habeas Corpus; Real Property--Rule in Shelley's Case--Wills; Specific Performance--Parol Contract--Part Performance; Suretyship--county …


Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review Mar 1904

Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Is Commerce Between a State and a Territory Interstate Comerce?; Right of Court to Instruct upon the Failure of Defendant to Testify in a Criminal Action; The Last of the Kentucky Bank Cases, and the Relations Between the State and Federal Courts; The Last of the Kentucky Bank Cases--Federal Tax Judgementss in STate Courts; Power of the Court to Order a Physical Examination in Personal Injury Cases; The Porto Rican is not an Allien; Mimicry as Infringement of Musical Composition;