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Constitutional Law-Due Process-Procedure
Constitutional Law-Due Process-Procedure
Michigan Law Review
New York Code of Criminal Procedure, sections 921-925, provides, in substance, that the Commissioner of Public Welfare may apply to two magistrates and, upon a showing that a husband or father owning property in the jurisdiction has absconded leaving a wife or children likely to become charges on the public, may secure a warrant for the seizure of such property and that, after confirmation of the warrant by the county court, such property may be applied to the support of the spouse or children. No sort of notice to the absentee is required. Held, affirming the decision of the …