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The Central Arizona Project, Jon Kyl
The Central Arizona Project, Jon Kyl
New Sources of Water for Energy Development and Growth: Interbasin Transfers: A Short Course (Summer Conference, June 7-10)
38 pages (includes illustrations).
Contains footnotes.
Contains 9 attachments.
The United States And Water Development, Carol E. Dinkins
The United States And Water Development, Carol E. Dinkins
New Sources of Water for Energy Development and Growth: Interbasin Transfers: A Short Course (Summer Conference, June 7-10)
5 pages.
A Century And A Half Of Interbasin Diversions Or 100 Years Since Coffin V. Left Hand Ditch Co., Ralph W. Johnson
A Century And A Half Of Interbasin Diversions Or 100 Years Since Coffin V. Left Hand Ditch Co., Ralph W. Johnson
New Sources of Water for Energy Development and Growth: Interbasin Transfers: A Short Course (Summer Conference, June 7-10)
19 pages.
Contains references.
Reformation Of Wills On The Ground Of Mistake: Change Of Direction In American Law?, John H. Langbein, Lawrence W. Waggoner
Reformation Of Wills On The Ground Of Mistake: Change Of Direction In American Law?, John H. Langbein, Lawrence W. Waggoner
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Although it has been "axiomatic" that our courts do not entertain suits to reform wills on the ground of mistake, appellate courts in California, New Jersey, and New York have decided cases within the last five years that may presage the abandonment of the ancient "no-reformation" rule. The new cases do not purport to make this fundamental doctrinal change, although the California Court of Appeal in Estate of Taff and the New Jersey Supreme Court in Engle v. Siegel did expressly disclaim a related rule, sometimes called the "plain meaning" rule. That rule, which hereafter we will call the "no-extrinsic-evidence …