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Recent Case Comments, Law Review Staff

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Accounting--Return To Be Allowed Utilities on Deferred Tax Reserves Instituted in Connection with Accelerated Depreciation Methods

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Conflict of Laws--Torts--Repudiation of Place of Injury Rule

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Constitutional Law--Due Process--Juvenile Court Proceeding a Bar to Subsequent Criminal Trial for the Same Act

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Family Law--Divorce--Insanity as a Defense to Action--for Divorce on the Ground of Cruelty

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Labor Law--Unemployment Compensation-Status of Laid-Off Worker Under No--Strike Clause

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Real Property--Future Interests--Valuation of Possibility of Reverter

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Taxation--Federal Income Tax--Deductibility of Contingent Witness Fees

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Torts--Warranty--Relation of Foreseeability of Risk to the Implied Warranty of a Cigarette Manufacturer

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Priority Paradoxes In Patent Law, Richard H. Stern

Vanderbilt Law Review

The constitutional provision governing patents gives Congress the power to promote the progress of useful arts "by securing for limited Times to... Inventors the exclusive Right to their... Discoveries. "'Because an "exclusive right" suggests an exclusive grant, the Patent Office interference proceeding has been created for the purpose of determining administratively the question of priority of rights between two or more parties claiming substantially the same invention. This article attempts to state in terms of an informal axiomatic system the rules of law for determining priority of invention, and then examine that system to explore its possible paradoxes Finally, an …

Recent Cases, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Law Review

Contracts--Ceiling Price Legislation--Effect upon Performance

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Evidence--Declarations against Interest--Third-Party Confessions

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Family Law--Loss of Consortium of the Parent--Right of Child to Recover Against a Negligent Defendant

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Federal Procedure--Statutory Construction--Meaning of "Mentally Incompetent"

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Income Taxation--Surrender of Lease--Capital Gain to Lessee

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Income Taxation--Taxable Stock Dividend--Treasury Stock Held for Investment

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Judgment--Suit to Vacate--Insufficient Allegations of Cruelty Void Divorce Decree

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Labor Law--Filing Requirements--Noncompliance at Time Charges Filed

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Municipal Corporations--Liability for Negligence--Operation of Swimming Pool for Profit

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Process--Constructive Service--Tort Action Arising Without State

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Torts--Res Ipsa Loquitur--Application To Disappearing Airplane