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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Banks and Banking--Authority of Cashier--When Knowledge of Cashire is Not Imputed to Bank; bills and Notes--Title to Personality Retained as Collateral Security--Right of Transferee; Boundaries--Fences--Ejectment--Champerty; Charities--Religious Corporations--Torts--Respondent Superior; Constitutional Law--Due Process--Regulation of Railroad; Constitutional Law--Interstate Commerce--Use of Automatic Couplers--Police Power; Corporations--Monopolies--Collateral Contracts--Defenses; Damages--Breach of Contract--Measure of Damages; Damages--Fright Producing Miscarriage--Trespass; Deeds--Privy Examination of Marries Women Over Telephone; Estoppel--What Constitutes; Evidence--Admissibility of Declaration of Pain and Suffering; Fire Insurance--Waiver of Conditions by Agent; Husband and Wife--Right of Wife to Sue for Alienation of Husband's Affections; Judgments on the Merits, What Constitutes--Form--Nonsuit; Landlord and Tenant--collapse of Building--Liability of Tenant; Master and Servant--Acts …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Attorney and Client--Application for License--Power of Court; Bills and Notes--Accommodation Maker--Evidence Excluded to Change Liability; Carriers--Conclusiveness of Ticket Between Conductor and Passenger; Constitutional Law--Police Power--Equal Protection of Laws--"Public Dancing Academy"; Copyrights--Infringement--Musical Composition; Damages--Breach of Contract; Damages--Excessive; Deeds--Grantee a Deceased Person; Divorce--Enforcement of Order Allowing Alimony Pendente Lite; Equity--Injunction--Right of a Fraternal Order to Prevent Infringement of Its Name; Equity--Specific Performance--Contract Not Enforceable as a Whole; Evidence--Limitation of Number of Witnesses--When Reversible Error; Executors and Administrators--Liability for Funeral Expenses; Gas Companies--Right to Withdraw from Municipality; Husband and Wife--Community or Separate Property--Presumption; Husband and Wife--right to Separate Maintenance--Consideration; Landlord and Tenant--Breach of …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Attorney and Client--Lien--Settlement Pending Judgment; Bankruptcy--discharge--Liability Absolutely Owing; Bankruptcy--Partnership--Individual Estate of a Partner; Banks and Banking--Checks on Trust Funds--Deposit to Personal Account of Trustee--Liability of Bank; Banks and Banking--Deposit Slip Headed by Mistake in Another's Name--Bankbook Does not Control; Constitutional Law--freedom To Contract--Master and Servant--Regulating Hours of Service; Constitutional Law--Interstate Commerce--solicitation of Orders for Sale of Intoxicating Liquors; Criminal Law--Offenses by Drivers of Automobiles; Damages--Extent of Liability on Replevin Bond; Damages--What may be Considered in Mitigation in Action for Libel; Deeds--Delivery--Grantee's Name Blank; Equity--Injunction to Restrain Cutting of Timber--Policy of State; Federal Procedure--Removal of Causes--Fraudulent Joinder; Gaming--"Bookmaking"--Oral Bets; Garnishment--Set-off of …
Note And Comment, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Ralph W. Aigler, Harry L. Patton, Frank Ayres, C. Redman Moon
Note And Comment, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Ralph W. Aigler, Harry L. Patton, Frank Ayres, C. Redman Moon
Michigan Law Review
The Right of Joint Adventurers, Holding All the Stock of a corporation, to a Dissolution and Accounting in Equity; Liability of Water Companies for Losses by Fire in Actions of Tort; Judgments as contracts and the Effect of Motive in Creating a Tort; Intervening Agency as an Element in Determining Proximate Cause; Application of Michigan Statute for the Benefit of Laborers and Materialmen on Public Works and the Right of Third Parties to Sue; Marketable Title;
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Bankruptcy--Surety's Rights to Subrogation--Preferred Claim; Bills and Notes--Negotiability--Effect of Words "Not Transferable" Added to Negotiable Note; Bills and Notes--Transfer of Note by Indorsement--What Law Governs the Indorser's Contract; Boundaries--Private Way--Title to Fee--Presumption; Civil Rights--Equal Privileges--Place of Amusement--Advertising Material; Constitutional Law--Inequality--classification--Child Labor; Constitutional Law--Limitations on the Taxing Power--Convict-Made Goods--Equal Protection of Laws; Contracts--Real Estate Brokers--Oral Authorization for Sale of Land--Commissions; Criminal Law--Post Office--Fraudulent Use of Mails; Damages--Measure of, in Case of Wrongful Death; Damages--Mitigation of, in Action for Personal Injuries--Duty to Submit to Medical Operation; Deed of Standing Timber--Time of Removal; Divorce--Extent of Relief--Absolute Divorce; Divorce--Vacation of Decree--Perjured Testimony; Evidence--Offer to …
Note And Comment, Edson R. Sunderland, Frederick H. Schmidt, John R. Rood, Ralph W. Aigler, Robert T. Hughes
Note And Comment, Edson R. Sunderland, Frederick H. Schmidt, John R. Rood, Ralph W. Aigler, Robert T. Hughes
Michigan Law Review
The Work of the Commissioners on Uniform State Laws; Some Difficulties of Code Pleading; Applicability of Ordinances to the Distribution of Liquors by Social Clubs; Capias in Execution Without Prior Order or Arrest; The Degree of Care Required in the Operation of a Scenic Railway; Who Can Complain of Ultra Vires Acquisition of Real Estate by a Corporation?; The Heinrich Brunner Memorial;
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Appeal and Error--Meaning of "Person Aggrieved"; Bankruptcy--dower Rights of Bankrupt's Wife; Bankruptcy--Mechanic's Lien--Set Off; Bills and Notes--Usury--when note is Void as to Both Principal and Interest; Boundaries--Meander Line--Riparian Rights; Citizenship--Marriage of Alien Woman to a Citizen--Naturalization; Constitutional law--Constitutionality of Office of Supreme Judge--Construction of State Constitution; Constitutional Law--Full Faith and Credit--Chancery Power to Affect Foreign Property; Constitutional Law--Police Power--License and Registration of Automobiles; Contracts--Restraint of Trade--Limitation as to Time; Damages--Breach of Warranty of Title--Attorney's Fees and Costs; Deeds--Support and Maintenance as Consideration--Condition Subsequent; Evidence--Crimes Affecting Credibility of Witnesses; Evidence--Letters Between Husband and Wife--Not Privileged in Hands of Third Parties; Husband …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigal Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigal Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Appeal and Error--Attorney's Interest in Case on Appeal--Contingent Fee; Bankruptcy--discharge--subsequent Action for Fraud; Bills and Notes--Usury No Defense Against a bona Fide Holder--Construction of Negotiable Instruments Statute; Boundaries--Street, Terminus A Quo; Carriers--Hepbern Act--State and Federal Courts--Phrase "Caused by It"; Chattel Mortgages--Payment without Notice of Assignment--Construction of a Mortgage Provision; Constitutional Law--Equal Protection of Laws--Statute Requiring Screens on Cars Operated by Corporations; Constitutional Law--Equal Protection of the Laws--Class Legislation; Contracts--No Recovery Under an Entire Illegal Contract; Contracts--Validity of Contract in Contemplation of Divorce; Courts--Federal Courts--authority of Decision of State Courts--"Telegraph"; Covenants--Breach of that Against Incumbrances; Elections--Ballots--Indication of Choice by Voter; Evidence--Facts …
The Struggle For A Perpetuity, John R. Rood
The Struggle For A Perpetuity, John R. Rood
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It is natural for us moderns to conceive of the right to alienate as an inseparable incident of ownership, since we have known no other condition; and in the modern books and decisions the subject is generally disposed of with the curt statement as if it were a truism. It is believed that to such as are not familiar with the history of that doctrine a review of the struggle through centuries, by which it was finally established on its present firm foundation, would not be devoid of interest.
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Bankruptcy--Corporation "Engaged Principally in Manufacturing"; Bankruptcy--Invalidity of Liens for Want of Record; Bills and Notes--Effect of Agreement to Pay Attorney's Fees on Negotiability; Boundaries--Street--Riparian Rights; Carriers--Negligent Delay of Passenger--Liability; Constitutional Law--Due Process of Law--Banking--Guaranty Fund; Constitutional Law--Vested rights--rights in Navigable and Non-Navigable Waters; Contracts--Performance of Building Contract; Corporations--Capital Stock--Trust Fund--Right of Bank to Purchase its own Stock; Corporations--Ownership of Stock--Unlawful Pledge--Rights of Pledgee; Damage--Breach of Covenant Against Incumbrances--Though Incumbrance Removed Nominal Damages Recoverable; Divorce--Grounds--Extreme Cruelty--Malicious Charges; Dower--Right to Dower--Divorce--Interlocutory Decree; Evidence--difference Between Burden of Proof and burden of Evidence; Evidence--Proof of Death--Privileged Communications Between Husband and Wife; Homestead--Fraudulent Conveyance--Right of …
Taxation Of Easements, Bradley M. Thompson
Taxation Of Easements, Bradley M. Thompson
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In the case of Lever v. Grant,1 the supreme court passed incidentally upon the effect of a tax deed on an easement appurtenant to the estate on which the delinquent taxes had been levied. From the facts in that case it appears that in 1884 the owner of a parcel of land in the city of Detroit, bounded on the west by Woodward avenue, platted the same. The plat shows a street on the north side extending from Woodward avenue east thirty feet wide, one-half the width of an ordinary street. This street was named Custer Avenue. The next year, …