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Full-Text Articles in Law
Civil Law And The Common Law A World Survey, R W. Lee
Civil Law And The Common Law A World Survey, R W. Lee
Michigan Law Review
In universities and other seats of learning, where men devote themselves to the pursuit of truth, certain great events or movements in the world's history claim attention as essentially and always proper subjects of investigation. Whatever the future may bring, we can hardly suppose a time when the art of Greece, the literature of England, the religions of the East will not be studied. Nor before an assembly of lawyers is it necessary to urge the claims of a great system of law as a subject which may well engage the amplest resources of the human intellect. For many centuries …
Law Of Percolating Waters, Jno B. Clayberg
Law Of Percolating Waters, Jno B. Clayberg
Michigan Law Review
Percolating waters are well understood as being underground waters. Underground waters have been from time immemorial divided into two general classes, namely: (a) flowing stream's, and (b) percolating waters. Percolating waters are divided by text writers into several distinct classes. No two text writers seem to have adopted the same classification. Such classifications are all more or less unimportant insofar as the application of the law is concerned. There cannot be any difference between percolating water which is diffuse and percolating water which reaches the channel of a stream or its sub-flow. All percolating water, unless detained by some natural …
Book Reviews, Joseph H. Drake, Victor H. Lane
Book Reviews, Joseph H. Drake, Victor H. Lane
Michigan Law Review
A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.
Qualified Martial Law A Legislative Proposal, Henry Winthrop Ballantine
Qualified Martial Law A Legislative Proposal, Henry Winthrop Ballantine
Michigan Law Review
When it is considered that there has been scarcely a year since the beginning of the Government that the Army has not been called upon to quell disturbances too great for the state authorities to handle; and that during the last thirty-five years the state troops have been called out more than five hundred times, the extent to which we are dependent upon the military are as a police force may be better realized.
Recent Important Decisions
Michigan Law Review
A collection of recent important court decisions.
Note And Comment, Gordon Stoner, Edgar N. Durfee, Werner W. Schroeder, Albert J. Mickelson, Maurice Weinberger
Note And Comment, Gordon Stoner, Edgar N. Durfee, Werner W. Schroeder, Albert J. Mickelson, Maurice Weinberger
Michigan Law Review
The Form of the Summons Under the Recent Michigan Judicature Act - It would be rather remarkable if in revising such a large portion of the statutes as was undertaken by the Commission on Revision and Consolidation of Statutes of the State of Michigan, appointed in 1913, which reported to the legislature the recently enacted Judicature Act (Public Acts of Michigan, 915, § 314), some ambiguity or uncertainty were not to appear in the revision. The Judicature Act is no exception to the general rule, as the lawyer who attempts to begin suit by summons under it will discover at …
Bill For The Nationalization Of Railroads, William W. Cook
Bill For The Nationalization Of Railroads, William W. Cook
Michigan Law Review
The great Mississippi Valley from the Alleghanies to the Rockies and from the Lakes to the Gulf dominates the Federal Government. It sends 231 of the 435 Representatives and 48 of the 96 Senators to Congress. In its confines are 24 of the 48 states. It has an area of over a billion acres of land-over one-half of the United States. It has fifty million people-over one-half of the nation. Some day it will have two hundred and fifty million. It contains a new race of men-fused of many nations-strong, enduring, resilient.' To it and the South, as Elihu Root …
Note And Comment, Edwin C. Goddard, Edgar N. Durfee, Thomas H. Westlake
Note And Comment, Edwin C. Goddard, Edgar N. Durfee, Thomas H. Westlake
Michigan Law Review
The Death of Dean Thayer - The death on September 15th of Ezra Ripley Thayer, dean of the Harvard Law School, has brought irreparable loss not only to the institution which he had brilliantly served, but to the cause of legal education throughout the country. Dean Thayer was the rarely fine product of conditions and environment which have been perhaps the most richly fruitful that our nation has known. The son of a most distinguished legal scholar and teacher, he grew up in association with much that was best and most inspiring in Massachusetts and in the great university from …
Recent Important Decisions
Michigan Law Review
A collection of recent important court decisions.
Judgment Against Shylock In The Merchant Of Venice, Thomas Niemeyer
Judgment Against Shylock In The Merchant Of Venice, Thomas Niemeyer
Michigan Law Review
This subject has already received the attention of jurists. In 1872 von Jhering in his famous lecture "The Struggle for Law"' criticised severely the established admiration of the speech of Portia. von Jhering attacked this speech with great vigour and indeed spoke of it as a miserable subterfuge - the rabulous trick of a pettifogger. He finds that through this speech a truly tragic lot befell Shylock; a fate brought about by the usurer's lawful struggle for his rights, and through which the law of Venice was transfigured.
Book Reviews, John R. Rood, Willard T. Barbour, Edwin C. Goddard
Book Reviews, John R. Rood, Willard T. Barbour, Edwin C. Goddard
Michigan Law Review
A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.
Nature Of American Religious Corporations, Carl Zollman
Nature Of American Religious Corporations, Carl Zollman
Michigan Law Review
From the earliest period of our history it has been recognized that corporate existence and capacity is desirable if not indispensable in order to carry on the affairs of the various church societies in the most efficient manner. Accordingly various forms of religious corporations have been developed. Of these the earliest, namely the territorial parish and the corporation sole, grew out of the then existing union of church and state. They were public municipal corporations and passed away with the system which had given them birth. Their place was taken by other church corporations of which there are three principal …
Recent Important Decisions
Michigan Law Review
A collection of recent important court decisions.
Powers Of American Religious Corporations, Carl Zollmann
Powers Of American Religious Corporations, Carl Zollmann
Michigan Law Review
Religious corporations in the United States have assumed various shapes. The original two forms, (corporation sole and territorial parish) being unsuited to our conditions, have completely passed away. In their stead have grown up four other classes, the aggregate corporation, the trustee corporation, the modern form of the corporation sole, and the Roman Catholic Church in our insular possessions. These four kinds of corporations, however diverse they may be in their history and otherwise, have a number of important qualities in common. None of them are ecclesiastical corporations in the European sense of the word. All of them owe their …
Nature And Importance Of Legal Possession, Joseph W. Bingham
Nature And Importance Of Legal Possession, Joseph W. Bingham
Michigan Law Review
To impress these unfamiliar facts on our consciousness, so that we shall not lose sight of them during the rest of our discussion, so that we shall not slur them or cloud them by vague use of symbolic ideas or terms concerning property and title, let us repeat the essence of the legal situation. Jackson is the holder of a fee simple acquired tortiously. His title to that fee--i. e. the facts which would induce the courts upon occasion to give him the remedies "vindicating" the existence of this vested fee in him--consist in his actual exclusive use and control …
Book Reviews, Alfred H. Lloyd, Robert E. Bunker, John B. Waite, Evans Holbrook
Book Reviews, Alfred H. Lloyd, Robert E. Bunker, John B. Waite, Evans Holbrook
Michigan Law Review
A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.
Procedural Reform, Robert Mcmurdy
Procedural Reform, Robert Mcmurdy
Michigan Law Review
In legal fetters, bound upon us largely by our own consent, the profession struggles, afraid to free itself, partly because of the word reform with its accepted implications.
Note And Comment, John B. Waite, Henry Rottschaefer, Roswell B. O'Harra, Leslie C. Mcclelland, Russell B. James, Hollis Harshman
Note And Comment, John B. Waite, Henry Rottschaefer, Roswell B. O'Harra, Leslie C. Mcclelland, Russell B. James, Hollis Harshman
Michigan Law Review
The Completion of a Contract by Posting of Acceptance - In the recent case of Kennedy Mcrcantile Co. v. Western Union Telegraph Co., the court says, "It is well settled law in this state that,where an offer is submitted by letter, an acceptance is conclusive and binding when a letter is deposited in the post-office accepting the same. The delivery to the one making the offer is not the test; for when the offer is submitted in that way it is equivalent to an invitation to accept by the same means, and when the acceptance is delivered to the agency …
Book Reviews, Edwin C. Goddard, John R. Rood
Book Reviews, Edwin C. Goddard, John R. Rood
Michigan Law Review
A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.
Recent Important Decisions
Michigan Law Review
A collection of recent important court decisions.
Nature And Importance Of Legal Possession, Joseph W. Bingham
Nature And Importance Of Legal Possession, Joseph W. Bingham
Michigan Law Review
The careful student of our law of property needs no demonstration of the importance of legal possession. From before the date of the earliest year book the word possession and its synonym seisin have pervaded legal language and have signified matters of great consequence in the decision of cases. "In the history of our law," say Pollock and Maitland, "there is no idea more cardinal than that of seisin. Even in the law of the present day it plays a part which must be studied by every lawyer; but in the past it was so important that we may almost …
Note And Comment, Edwin C. Goddard, John G. Cedergren, Henry C. Bogle, Henry Rottschaefer, Marcy K. Brown
Note And Comment, Edwin C. Goddard, John G. Cedergren, Henry C. Bogle, Henry Rottschaefer, Marcy K. Brown
Michigan Law Review
Limitation as to the Amount of Liability for Loss of Goods by Carriers - A carload of automobiles was shipped by express, under an express receipt limiting recovery to $50, unless a greater value was named and a greater carrying charge paid. The shipper knew of this stipulation, and deliberately chose the restricted liability so as -to secure the lower rate. On a suit for loss of the automobiles, recovery was limited to $5o. Geo. N. Pierce Co. v. Wells Fargo & Co., I89 Fed. 561, commented on in 10 MICH. L. RSv. 317. The United States Supreme Court has …
Classes Of American Religious Corporations, Carl Zollmann
Classes Of American Religious Corporations, Carl Zollmann
Michigan Law Review
The right of churches to incorporate has been universally conceded in the United States, except in Virginia and West Virginia, under whose constitutions the legislature is forbidden to grant any "charter of incorporation" to "any church or 'religious denomination."' Nor is such concession a recent one. Churches have exercised corporate rights from. the earliest period of the American law. The forms under which this has been done, however, have been quite dissimilar. Five distinct classes of corporations are discernible, the first of which is entirely extinct, the second survives only in an altered form, the third is limited in area, …
Some Sociological Aspects Of Criminal Law, Harriette M. Dilla
Some Sociological Aspects Of Criminal Law, Harriette M. Dilla
Michigan Law Review
There is a vast need for something that will sometime be written upon the subject of Sociology as a basis of Criminal Law and Procedure. The science of what may be termed Sociological Jurisprudence is in an embryonic state at present and the nearest approach perhaps is what we call Criminal Sociology or Criminology. The progress of this study has been rapid but we may still hope for .a more general application of principle! to practice. It is true that readjustment in law is more difficult than in other fields, as necessary formalities of procedure often seem to impose unreasonable …
Year Book Of Richard Ii, John M. Zane
Year Book Of Richard Ii, John M. Zane
Michigan Law Review
The Publication of a year book in this country is an event for our legal scholarship. The trustees of the Ames Foundation in a spirit that is Worthy of the great legal scholar in whose honor the foundation was instituted, have made the publication possible, but it is to be inferred from the Introduction by the Editor that the book was not prepared at their instance. He tells us that he has had, for correcting various inaccuracies, the assistance of certain members of the Harvard law faculty, but it is not to be supposed that they have given a critical …
International Status Of The Grand Duchy Of Luxemburg And The Kingdom Of Belgium In Relation To The Present European War, Theodore P. Ion
International Status Of The Grand Duchy Of Luxemburg And The Kingdom Of Belgium In Relation To The Present European War, Theodore P. Ion
Michigan Law Review
The case of Belgium presents an entirely different aspect both from the legal and the political point of view. While the guarantee of the neutrality of Luxemburg interests---or interested at the time of the signature of the Treaty of 1867 -- France and Prussia only, and the other contracting parties (and particularly Great Britain) acceded to it, to use the "'reluctantly," words of Lord Stanley, that of Belgium had and has an entirely different character so far as England is concerned. It affects her vital interests, namely, her own security. Hence the difference in the wording of the instrument guaranteeing …
Note And Comment, Henry M. Bates, Evans Holbrook, Will R. Roberts, Marcy K. Brown Jr, Allen M. Reed
Note And Comment, Henry M. Bates, Evans Holbrook, Will R. Roberts, Marcy K. Brown Jr, Allen M. Reed
Michigan Law Review
Legislative Power to Restrict Freedom of Labor Contracts -The struggle between the police power of the legislature and the nineteenth century idea of due process of law continues unremittingly. That increasing social necessities and a more comprehensive and perfect conception of justice have resulted in recent years in restricting the "due process" clauses in federal and state constitutions to their historically and logically more correct meaning and scope there can be no doubt. Scores, if not hundreds, of decisions by our courts and conspicuously those of the United States Supreme Court have shown complete recognition of the fact that the …
Recent Important Decisions
Michigan Law Review
A collection of recent important court decisions.
Conveyancing In The Province Of Quebec, Howard S. Ross
Conveyancing In The Province Of Quebec, Howard S. Ross
Michigan Law Review
A solicitor who has had experience as a conveyancer in any of the other Canadian provinces is at first disappointed when he finds on coming to Quebec to practice that in Quebec the bulk of the conveyancing is done by Notaries who, as is well known, belong to a distinct profession founded on the French Notarial system. An Advocate may not be a Notary or a Notary an Advocate, at one and the same time. In a few cases young men take the examinations and qualify as Advocates and Notaries and then elect. Occasionally after practicing a number of years …
Book Reviews, Edwin C. Goddard, Will F. Black, Joseph H. Drake
Book Reviews, Edwin C. Goddard, Will F. Black, Joseph H. Drake
Michigan Law Review
A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.