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Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
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Bankruptcy--Assets--Trustee's Rights Under 70(c) Ascertained at Date of Bankruptcy Rather than Anterior Point of Time
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Contempt--Publisher Not in Contempt for Newspaper Articles Which He reasonably did not believe would interfere with Trial
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Federal Procedure--Erie Doctrine--Impeachment Evidence not Outcome--Determinative
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Jurisdiction--Federal Death on High Seas Act Grants Exclusive Jurisdiction to Federal Courts
Assignments Of Accounts Receivable And The Conflict Of Laws Under The Bankruptcy Act, Eugene J.T. Flanagan
Assignments Of Accounts Receivable And The Conflict Of Laws Under The Bankruptcy Act, Eugene J.T. Flanagan
Vanderbilt Law Review
Under our system of government there is no constitutional requirement that the laws of the various states be uniform. On some points there are considerable differences between the laws of sister states. Such is the case with respect to the test for priority of right among successive assignees of an account receivable. This difference becomes of great importance when a multi-state transaction raises the question of the choice of the applicable law.
Fundamentally the problem is whether the jurisdiction in question follows the rule of Dearle v. Hall,' or the so-called American rule. The former establishes the order of precedence …