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Dispositions Of Property To Unincorporated Non-Profit Associations, Harold A.J. Ford
Dispositions Of Property To Unincorporated Non-Profit Associations, Harold A.J. Ford
Michigan Law Review
It now becomes necessary to examine the cases in which the disposition could not be treated as one to the existing members. This treatment will disclose that some courts have been prepared to regard some dispositions to associations as being for the purposes of the association. The only way in which property may be devoted to a purpose without conferring beneficial interests on particular individuals is by a trust. Accordingly in many instances the disposition takes effect as a trust.
Constitutional Law - Due Process - Notice Required To Validate Tax Foreclosure Of Property Of Known Mental Incompetent, Frank M. Lacey S.Ed.
Constitutional Law - Due Process - Notice Required To Validate Tax Foreclosure Of Property Of Known Mental Incompetent, Frank M. Lacey S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
On May 8, 1952, the town of Somers instituted an action to foreclose a number of tax liens. One of these was upon the property owned by a person known in the community to be a mental incompetent, but who had not yet been so certified by a court. Notice was given to the incompetent taxpayer in compliance with the statute by mail, posting, and publication. When she failed to answer within the prescribed period, foreclosure was entered and a deed to her property delivered to the town. Five days later she was declared a person of unsound mind, and …
Parsons, Penn, Raup: Land Tenure, John C. Payne
Parsons, Penn, Raup: Land Tenure, John C. Payne
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Land Tenure. Edited by Kenneth H. Parsons, Raymond J. Penn and Philip M. Raup.
Transfers Of Joint Property In Contemplation Of Death: A Call For Immediate Statutory Revision, L. Hart Wright
Transfers Of Joint Property In Contemplation Of Death: A Call For Immediate Statutory Revision, L. Hart Wright
Michigan Law Review
For years the Tax Court sided with the government and the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in asserting that the contemplation-of-death provision of the estate tax act was sufficiently elastic to include the tax concept of ownership reflected in the joint-property provision of the same act. The alliance between those tribunals on this point was recently broken, however, when the Tax Court shifted to the competing view supported by taxpayers and the appellate court for the Ninth Circuit. It now believes that the two provisions mentioned above are complete strangers even though at one time these two were …
Dispositions Of Property To Unincorporated Non-Profit Associations, Harold A.J. Ford
Dispositions Of Property To Unincorporated Non-Profit Associations, Harold A.J. Ford
Michigan Law Review
The aim of this article is to examine the ways in which courts in common law countries have given this assistance and the problems they have encountered in regard to property transactions.
Morris & Leach: The Rule Against Perpetuities, William F. Fratcher
Morris & Leach: The Rule Against Perpetuities, William F. Fratcher
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Rule Against Perpetuities By J. H. C. Morris and W. Barton Leach.
Descent And Distribution - Effect Of Advancements, Debts And Releases When Expectant Distributee Predeceases Intestate, Eric E. Bergsten
Descent And Distribution - Effect Of Advancements, Debts And Releases When Expectant Distributee Predeceases Intestate, Eric E. Bergsten
Michigan Law Review
The law of advancements is part of the law of intestate succession. But the right of retainer, which allows an offset against a distributee's share of the estate for a debt owed by the distributee to the decedent, is merely a method of debt collection and historically has not been considered as a part of the law of inheritance. For this and other reasons, the law applicable to advancements in this situation is better treated separately from that concerning debts of predeceased expectant heirs. There are also sufficient differences between the treatment given a release and that of either an …
The Installment Land Contract As A Junior Security, E. George Rudolph
The Installment Land Contract As A Junior Security, E. George Rudolph
Michigan Law Review
It is the purpose of this paper to explore the problems of one group whose members are increasingly, and more or less as a matter of necessity, finding themselves in the role of mortgagees, or vendors under installment purchase contracts, although they do not fit the assumed pattern. This group consists of persons who own homes subject to existing mortgages and for one reason or another decide to sell. The existing mortgages may be insured by the Federal Housing Administration or by the Veterans Administration or they may be uninsured mortgages held by building and loan associations or other financial …
Future Interests - Restraints On Alienation - Validity Of Pre-Emptive Provision, Julian Linde
Future Interests - Restraints On Alienation - Validity Of Pre-Emptive Provision, Julian Linde
Michigan Law Review
Defendant purchased a strip of land lying between his residence and the plaintiff's for $2,550. Immediately thereafter and pursuant to a prior understanding, he conveyed the west half to plaintiff for one half the price he paid for the entire tract. As a part of this transaction it was agreed that should either party desire to sell his portion of the lot at any time in the future, he would first offer it to the other at its original cost plus any amounts expended for improvements. When defendant was offered $3,500 for his half seven years later, he disregarded this …
Contracts - Consideration- Requirement Of Consideration For Modification Of A Contract, David Macdonald
Contracts - Consideration- Requirement Of Consideration For Modification Of A Contract, David Macdonald
Michigan Law Review
Landlord leased space to tenant in a building which was to be erected. The agreement and subsequent modifications pro- . vided that the landlord should pay the broker's commission and architect's fees, and have the power to cancel the lease prior to a specified time. The litigation arose over another attempted modification in the form of a letter from the tenant in which the tenant promised to indemnify the landlord for the broker's commission and architect's fees if the landlord should cancel the lease as it had the power to do under the agreement. In compliance with the tenant's request, …
Municipal Corporations-Zoning-Validity Of Ordinances Excluding Residences From Industrial Areas, Judson M. Werbelow S.Ed.
Municipal Corporations-Zoning-Validity Of Ordinances Excluding Residences From Industrial Areas, Judson M. Werbelow S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff purchased undeveloped land located in defendant municipality, intending to construct dwelling houses thereon. At the time of plaintiff's purchase, the land was zoned for industrial use, but the applicable ordinance did permit use of the land for residential as well as industrial purposes. Defendant municipality, a town of about 9,000 persons, had experienced a minimum of industrial growth and the possibility of future industrial development was slight. Shortly after the plaintiff had made his purchase, defendant municipality amended the applicable zoning ordinance to prohibit the use of plaintiff's land for residential purposes. However, the ordinance did permit the presence …
Restitution - Recission - Measure Of Restitution Required Of Rescinding Vendee Of Executed Land Contract, Donald W. Shaffer S.Ed.
Restitution - Recission - Measure Of Restitution Required Of Rescinding Vendee Of Executed Land Contract, Donald W. Shaffer S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff vendee sought to rescind an executed contract for the sale of an inn, alleging fraud in the inducement. The lower court granted rescission and ordered repayment to the plaintiff of that part of the purchase price already paid over to defendant- vendor, less $2,500, which was found to be the fair or reasonable rental value for the period of the plaintiff's possession. Both parties appealed, defendant claiming a higher rental figure and plaintiff asserting that no rental should be allowed. Held, the plaintiff should be charged rent measured by the value of the benefits which accrued to him …
Future Interests - Possibilities Of Reverter - Constitutionality Of Retroactive Limitation, Paul A. Heinen S.Ed.
Future Interests - Possibilities Of Reverter - Constitutionality Of Retroactive Limitation, Paul A. Heinen S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
The township school trustees brought actions under the Reverter Act to have the possibilities of reverter contained in the deeds to two currently unused school tracts declared invalid. In each case the trial court held that the possibility of reverter was alienable and that the Reverter Act was unconstitutional, being an ex post facto law and in violation of the due process clauses of the state and federal Constitutions. On appeal, held, reversed. Since possibilities of reverter in Illinois are merely expectancies subject to change, modification, or abolition by legislative action, the act does not result in an unconstitutional …
Real Property-Recording--Latent Defect In Acknowledgment Of Deed, Eugene Alkema
Real Property-Recording--Latent Defect In Acknowledgment Of Deed, Eugene Alkema
Michigan Law Review
In 1947 A executed a deed to B, which was recorded in July 1951. On May 7, 1951 A executed a deed of the same property to C, who did not record. C's deed bore a certificate of acknowledgment, but in fact the acknowledgment was taken by telephone and not in person as required by law to make it eligible for record. On May 9, 1951 C conveyed to D, who recorded both conveyances in his chain of title on May 26, 1951. In an action by B to quiet title, held, for B. Since …
Determination Of Heirship, Paul E. Basye
Determination Of Heirship, Paul E. Basye
Michigan Law Review
Nearly a hundred years have elapsed since the Supreme Court emphatically voiced its conviction as to the necessity of having some method for making a final determination concerning the devolution of the ownership of property upon the death of its owner.
Securities - Effect Of Certificate Of Title Acts Of Sales On Encumberd Vehicles To Purchasers In Ordinary Course, Charles G. Williamson, Jr. S.Ed.
Securities - Effect Of Certificate Of Title Acts Of Sales On Encumberd Vehicles To Purchasers In Ordinary Course, Charles G. Williamson, Jr. S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
The primary purpose of this comment will be to examine the various legislative schemes in use and the bearing of the certificate of title acts on the case of mortgagee v. purchaser in ordinary course.
Conflict Of Laws - Brokerage Contracts - Out-Of-State Broker Denied Commission Because Of Isolated Acts Within Forum, Richard J. Riordan S.Ed.
Conflict Of Laws - Brokerage Contracts - Out-Of-State Broker Denied Commission Because Of Isolated Acts Within Forum, Richard J. Riordan S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff was a Massachusetts real estate broker, not licensed to do business in New York. Defendants, who resided in New York, owned real estate in Massachusetts and executed a brokerage contract there with the plaintiff. The real estate was leased to a Massachusetts corporation through plaintiff's efforts. All of plaintiff's services, with the exception of several important conferences in New York, were performed in Massachusetts. On plaintiff's suit for unpaid commissions, held, for defendant. The New York brokerage laws prohibit recovery in a New York court by brokers, unlicensed in New York, who perform any brokerage services within the …
Descent And Distribution - Ancestral Property - Exclusion Of Next Of Kin Other Than Half Bloods, George F. Lynch
Descent And Distribution - Ancestral Property - Exclusion Of Next Of Kin Other Than Half Bloods, George F. Lynch
Michigan Law Review
The decedent died intestate owning land which he had inherited from his father. His only next of kin were four blood aunts and uncles on his mother's side, and three blood aunts and uncles on his father's side. The paternal aunts and uncles contended that the land descended to them alone by virtue of a section of the Alabama code, which provides: "There is no distinction made between the whole and the half blood in the same degree, unless the inheritance came to the intestate by descent, devise or gift, from or of some one of his ancestors; in which …
Real Property - Water Rights - Liability For Discharge Of Surface Water, Robert E. Hammell
Real Property - Water Rights - Liability For Discharge Of Surface Water, Robert E. Hammell
Michigan Law Review
In 1950 the corporate defendants purchased a forty acre tract of farm land lying north of plaintiffs' golf course and restaurant. Drainage from this tract had always flowed in a natural course southerly through plaintiffs' land. The defendant corporations constructed a subdivision of 169 homes on the tract. This change aggravated the discharge of surface water onto the land of the plaintiffs, increasing the run-off some 350 percent and, in times of heavy rains, producing flood conditions. Plaintiffs were awarded damages and an injunction by the trial court. On appeal, held, reversed. In respect to 30 acres of defendants' …
Insurance - Recovery - Land Contract Purchaser Allowed Recovery On Both Vendee's And Vendor's Policies In Excess Of Loss, Jerome K. Walsh, Jr.
Insurance - Recovery - Land Contract Purchaser Allowed Recovery On Both Vendee's And Vendor's Policies In Excess Of Loss, Jerome K. Walsh, Jr.
Michigan Law Review
An owner of realty entered into a contract to sell the land to the plaintiff. The vendor then took out fire insurance on his interest in the amount of $6,000 and the plaintiff obtained a policy covering his interest in the sum of $12,000, with a "three-fourths value" clause. Before performance of the contract and transfer of title, a fire occurred which caused $12,000 damage to the property. After the plaintiff paid the full contract price and took title to the property, he demanded and received an assignment of the claim under the vendor's policy. Plaintiff then brought suit on …
Personal Property - Gifts Causa Mortis - Effect Of Informal Writing Where There Is No Actual Delivery, David L. Nelson
Personal Property - Gifts Causa Mortis - Effect Of Informal Writing Where There Is No Actual Delivery, David L. Nelson
Michigan Law Review
Prior to entering the hospital to undergo a serious operation, the decedent wrote an informal note to her husband telling him where he would find some money, a bank passbook, and a building and loan association stock book, which were hidden in their home. The note stated that this property was his. While the wife was under ether on the operating table, her husband found the note, after being directed to its location by a friend of the wife, and took possession of the items referred to. The wife did not recover consciousness and subsequently died. In an action by …
The Wills Branch Of The Worthier Title Doctrine, Joseph W. Morris
The Wills Branch Of The Worthier Title Doctrine, Joseph W. Morris
Michigan Law Review
It is the purpose of this article to examine the history and origin of the wills branch of the worthier title doctrine, to ascertain the extent of its application and the manner of its application, to determine the legal consequences flowing therefrom, and to consider the desirability of its continued existence.
Maritime Lien Priorities: Cross-Currents Of Theory, Roger G. Connor
Maritime Lien Priorities: Cross-Currents Of Theory, Roger G. Connor
Michigan Law Review
The purpose of this article is not to develop a synthesis, for no synthesis is possible, but to give an account of the general theories governing maritime lien priorities, together with a discussion of the concrete issues which arise in their application.