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Analysis Of Committee's Answers To Questions 1-229 With Explanatory Statement, New York County Lawyers' Association Jan 1923

Analysis Of Committee's Answers To Questions 1-229 With Explanatory Statement, New York County Lawyers' Association

Miscellaneous Materials

This Committee was authorized by he by-laws to cooperate with other associations in raising the standards of professional conduct, and to publish treatises on :he subject from time to time. Hundreds of inquiries have reached he Association or the Committee, and this leaflet answers 229 of those questions, one that broadly cover the field of professional conduct.

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Les Gouvernements Ou États Non Reconnus En Droit Anglais Et Américain, Edwin D. Dickinson Jan 1923

Les Gouvernements Ou États Non Reconnus En Droit Anglais Et Américain, Edwin D. Dickinson

Articles

Professor Dickinson tackles the subject of non-recognition of governments or states in English and American law: "Pour conclure, voici les propositions de l'auteur. La reconnaissance d'un Gouvernement or Etat etranger est exclusivement une question politique. L'existence d'un Gouvernement ou Etat etranger est exclusivement une question de fait.... C'est une chose deja grave que de voir d'une menace dans les conflits diplomatiques..."

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Historic Periods In The Development Of Our Law, Hugh Evander Willis Jan 1923

Historic Periods In The Development Of Our Law, Hugh Evander Willis

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

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Book Reviews Dec 1922

Book Reviews

Michigan Law Review

A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.

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Labor And The Law In The Public Utility Field, George Jarvis Thompson Nov 1922

Labor And The Law In The Public Utility Field, George Jarvis Thompson

Michigan Law Review

To the cynical this title may suggest a rhetorical antithesis, and the average citizen cannot but be a bit cynical as a result of his observation and experience of the actuality of the failure of the law to function for the preservation of the continuity of these essential public services in the frequently recurring outbreaks between organized capital and organized labor. In a great measure, he has only himself to blame for this unfortunate condition. He lent ear to the vote-seeking politician and to the propaganda of the interested parties, taking sides with one or the other without thought of …

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Archaic Methods Of Validating A Contract-The "Blow And The "Libation" Nov 1922

Archaic Methods Of Validating A Contract-The "Blow And The "Libation"

Michigan Law Review

Sir Henry Maine tells us that at the ·dawn of Roman jurisprudence the term in use for contract was one which is very familiar to students of historical Latinity. "It was nexum, and the parties to the contract were said to be nexi." MAINE, ANCIENT LAW [Ed. 10, by Pollock], 328. Manilius, a Latin antiquarian, describes nexum as omne quad per libram et aes geritur, in quo sint mancipia, "every transaction with the copper and the balance, in which class are mancipia." VARRO, DE L. L. 7, 105. Mancipation was a conveyance, and Maine says that this …

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Some Greek Legal Papyri From The Michigan Collection, A Er Boak Jun 1922

Some Greek Legal Papyri From The Michigan Collection, A Er Boak

Michigan Law Review

The documents which form the subject of this paper are part of the Michigan Collection of Papyri recently acquired by Professor F. W. Kelsey in Egypt and secured for the University by the generosity of the Regents and certain friends and alumni, among the latter Mr. J. W. Anderson, of the Law Class of 189o. A large proportion of these documents are of a legal nature, and from these I have selected for translation four, which may be regarded as typical specimens of their respective classes.

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Neutrality Of British Dominions, C D. Allin Jun 1922

Neutrality Of British Dominions, C D. Allin

Michigan Law Review

The recent Cannes conference has revived the question of the -international status of the British dominions. Article IV of the proposed Anglo-French Alliance provided that "the present treaty shall impose no obligation upon any of the dominions of the British Empire unless and until it is approved by the dominion concerned." In short, the dominions were left free to pursue an independent foreign policy in European affairs.

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Book Reviews, Burke Shartel, Grover C. Grismore, S C. Ho, S M. Ho, Evans Holbrook, Henry M. Bates Jun 1922

Book Reviews, Burke Shartel, Grover C. Grismore, S C. Ho, S M. Ho, Evans Holbrook, Henry M. Bates

Michigan Law Review

History of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851. By Mary Floyd Williams. University of California Publications in History, Volume XII. "Berkeley: The University of California Press. 192I. Pp. xii, 543.

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Judges In The Executive Council Of Upper Canada, William Renwick Riddell May 1922

Judges In The Executive Council Of Upper Canada, William Renwick Riddell

Michigan Law Review

When in December, 1791, Upper Canada began her separate provincial career, her first Lieutenant-Governor, Colonel John Graves Simcoe, said that the Constitution of the Province was "the very image and transcript of that of Great Britain."'

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Book Reviews, Edwin W. Patterson, Edson R. Sunderland, C E. Griffin May 1922

Book Reviews, Edwin W. Patterson, Edson R. Sunderland, C E. Griffin

Michigan Law Review

The title of this brilliant little volume might, more accurately, have been, "The Spirits of the Common Law," for it depicts the common law as the battleground of many conflicting spirits, from which a few relatively permanent ideas and ideals have emerged triumphant. As a whole, the book is a pluralistic-idealistic interpretation of legal history. Idealistic, because Dean Pound finds that the fundamentals of the 'common law have been shaped by ideas and ideals rather than by economic determinism or class struggle; he definitely rejects a purely economic interpretation of legal history, although he demands a sociological one (pp. io-ii). …

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Book Reviews, Nathan Isaacs, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Arthur H. Basye, Leonard D. White, Victor H. Lane, Edwin D. Dickinson Apr 1922

Book Reviews, Nathan Isaacs, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Arthur H. Basye, Leonard D. White, Victor H. Lane, Edwin D. Dickinson

Michigan Law Review

What does a judge do when he decides a case? It would be interesting to collect the answers ranging from those furnished by primitive systems of law in which the judge was supposed to consult the gods to the ultra-modern, rather profane system described to me recently by a retrospective judge: "I make up my mind which way the case ought to be decided, and then I see if I can't get some legal ground to make it stick." Perhaps the widespread impression is the curiously erroneous one lampooned by Gnaeus Flavius (Kantorowitz). The judge is supposed to sit at …

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Journal Of The House Of Representatives Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, 1922, Volume 3, Kentucky. General Assembly. House Of Representatives. Jan 1922

Journal Of The House Of Representatives Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, 1922, Volume 3, Kentucky. General Assembly. House Of Representatives.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

No abstract provided.

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Journal Of The House Of Representatives Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, 1922, Volume 2, Kentucky. General Assembly. House Of Representatives. Jan 1922

Journal Of The House Of Representatives Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, 1922, Volume 2, Kentucky. General Assembly. House Of Representatives.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

No abstract provided.

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Common Sense Vs. Common Law, W. Lewis Roberts Jan 1922

Common Sense Vs. Common Law, W. Lewis Roberts

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Journal Of The House Of Representatives Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, 1922, Volume 1, Kentucky. General Assembly. House Of Representatives. Jan 1922

Journal Of The House Of Representatives Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, 1922, Volume 1, Kentucky. General Assembly. House Of Representatives.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

No abstract provided.

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Journal Of The Senate Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, 1922, Volume One, Kentucky. General Assembly. Senate. Jan 1922

Journal Of The Senate Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, 1922, Volume One, Kentucky. General Assembly. Senate.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Published proceedings of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky for the 1922 term. This volume covers January 3, 1922 to February 7, 1922.

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Journal Of The Senate Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, 1922, Volume Three, Kentucky. General Assembly. Senate. Jan 1922

Journal Of The Senate Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, 1922, Volume Three, Kentucky. General Assembly. Senate.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Published proceedings of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky for the 1922 term. This volume covers March 7, 1922 to March 15, 1922. This volume includes the index for all three volumes.

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Journal Of The Senate Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, 1922, Volume Two, Kentucky. General Assembly. Senate. Jan 1922

Journal Of The Senate Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, 1922, Volume Two, Kentucky. General Assembly. Senate.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Published proceedings of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky for the 1922 term. This volume covers February 8, 1922 to March 6, 1922.

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Statutes Of Edward I Their Relation To Finance And Administration, Nathan Isaacs Jun 1921

Statutes Of Edward I Their Relation To Finance And Administration, Nathan Isaacs

Michigan Law Review

Perhaps the most far-reaching effect of the American Civil war, in the long run, could be illustrated by a chart showing government expenditures before and after that rebirth of the nation. The jump from the bottom of the chart to the top, with no apparent tendency to return, reflects a new conception of the function of the government, the creation of new powers and a redistribution of- the old ones. In like manner one of the most significant features of the present period of reconstruction throughout the civilized world seems likely to find its graphic representation in a curve that …

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Book Reviews, William W. Cook, Edwin D. Dickinson, Joseph H. Drake, Wayne C. Williams Jun 1921

Book Reviews, William W. Cook, Edwin D. Dickinson, Joseph H. Drake, Wayne C. Williams

Michigan Law Review

This is a book that every lawyer should read and every law student should be required to read. It is the culminating work of a masterly mind that for over fifty years has been studying governments, ancient and modern,' and meantime the writer has had the practical advantage of holding high and responsible offices, including that of British Ambassador to the United States. Viscount Bryce speaks plainly of American national, state and municipal shortcomings in government, especially the last, but it is done in a kindly vein. He is a friend of America and gives us credit for much.

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1921 Education Funding Bill. State Of Tennessee 62nd General Assembly., Tennessee General Assembly Apr 1921

1921 Education Funding Bill. State Of Tennessee 62nd General Assembly., Tennessee General Assembly

Establishment of ETSU

Passed April 7, 1921 by the 62nd General Assembly of the state of Tennessee, Senate Bill no.856, overhauled education funding within the state. All state education funds were combined into one fund thereafter known as the State School fund, to be appropriated according to the provisions of this bill. After other expenses, Senate Bill no.856 established 4.5% of all remaining state funding would be distributed to each of the normal schools.

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History Of Michigan Constitutional Provision Prohibiting A General Revision Of The Laws, W L. Jenks Apr 1921

History Of Michigan Constitutional Provision Prohibiting A General Revision Of The Laws, W L. Jenks

Michigan Law Review

Alone among the states of the Union, Michigan has, since i85o, pr6hibited any general revision of the laws and permits only a compilation of laws in force without alteration. As practically all the neighboring states, as well as New York, from which much of the early legislatiorf of Michigan was derived, have continued to revise their statutes from time to time, it may be interesting to see why Michigan alone has thought it desirable not only to stop the practice which it followed until I85o, but to prevent effectually its legislature from ever attempting it in the future.

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Reading From Ancient Chinese Codes And Other Sources Of Chinese Law And Legal Ideas, John Wu Mar 1921

Reading From Ancient Chinese Codes And Other Sources Of Chinese Law And Legal Ideas, John Wu

Michigan Law Review

With the legal profession today there is a growing interest in Vthe study of universal legal ideas. Legal ideas, it would seem, gain strength by extension both in time and in space. ,As ius" gentium is necessarily more congenial to human reason than ius civie, so it may. be said that the laws of all ages are more deep-seated in human nature than those of a particular generation. The scope of comparative jurisprudence, therefore, embraces all the length and breadth of legal scholarship, so that it cannot afford to ignore any materials that may give us light upon the legal …

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The History Of Georgia In The Eighteenth Century, As Recorded In The Reports Of The Georgia Bar Association, Orville A. Park Jan 1921

The History Of Georgia In The Eighteenth Century, As Recorded In The Reports Of The Georgia Bar Association, Orville A. Park

Historical Treatises

No abstract provided.

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Local And Special Legislation In Missouri Under The Constitution Of 1875 (Continued), Roscoe E. Harper Nov 1920

Local And Special Legislation In Missouri Under The Constitution Of 1875 (Continued), Roscoe E. Harper

University of Missouri Bulletin Law Series

It was indicated in the preceding chapter that a general law relates to persons or things as a class; that this class is determined by a "distinguishing peculiarity" which bears a reasonable relation to the purpose for which the statute was enacted; and that this class includes all things which may come within it at any future time. It now remains to examine the cases in which this test has been applied.

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The Constitution And Nationalism, Henry M. Bates Jul 1920

The Constitution And Nationalism, Henry M. Bates

Articles

Dean Bates comments on the alarming trend of nationalism in America: "Blind indeed must he be who supposes that our legal and political institutions can escape profound modification by those great changes in commercial, industrial, political and social conditions which, in part, were caused by the world war, but were greatly intensified by it.... No intelligent person, who has any knowledge of history and of the protection which local government has always given to human freedom, can fail to feel a deep and at times shuddering sense of apprehension at the rapidity with which we are massing our governmental power …

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Local And Special Legislation In Missouri Under The Constitution Of 1875 - Part I - Local And Special Legislation In Missouri Prior To Constitution Of 1875, Roscoe E. Harper Jun 1920

Local And Special Legislation In Missouri Under The Constitution Of 1875 - Part I - Local And Special Legislation In Missouri Prior To Constitution Of 1875, Roscoe E. Harper

University of Missouri Bulletin Law Series

During the first decade of statehood, Missouri was composed of sparsely settled, agricultural communities. Her needs were simple and her interests few. The common law adequately regulated the ordinary affairs of those pioneer days; and the general assemblies, without being overburdened, could easily satisfy all the demands for public, private, and local legislation. So the evils of special and local legislation were not prominent and aroused little, if any, protest.

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Freedom Of Speech And Of The Press In The Federalist Period The Sedition Act, Thomas F. Carroll May 1920

Freedom Of Speech And Of The Press In The Federalist Period The Sedition Act, Thomas F. Carroll

Michigan Law Review

The constitutional problem to which the Espionage Act of 1917 gave rise is almost as old as the Government itself. As early as 1798 the constitutional authority of the Government over speech ,and the press was called into question. The controversy caused by the Sedition Act of that date forms the subject of this paper.

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The Pandex, Volume Xvi Jan 1920

The Pandex, Volume Xvi

Kansas City School of Law Pandex Collection

Yearbook for Kansas City School of Law in Kansas City, Missouri, includes photos of and information about the school, student body, professors, and organizations.

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