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Modernizing Title Search Practices By Legislation, Barlow Burke Jan 1975

Modernizing Title Search Practices By Legislation, Barlow Burke

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INTRODUCTION: Recently the Pennsylvania Bar Association has encouraged its committees on Real Property matters to consider a variety of legislative devices to enable lawyers to search real estate titles more efficiently. The problem of efficiency in title searches is not new nor is it peculiar to Pennsylvania. Perhaps it is true that the states in the union with a colonial past have longer chains of titles to search, but the present volume of conveyancing transactions burdens the record of deeds offices in almost all large urban areas. Land title record offices there are being buried under a deluge of paper. …

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A Reconsideration Of The Fourth Amendment's Doctrine Of Search Incident To Arrest.Pdf, David Aaronson Jan 1975

A Reconsideration Of The Fourth Amendment's Doctrine Of Search Incident To Arrest.Pdf, David Aaronson

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INTRODUCTION: The doctrine of search incident to arrest provides that, as an incident to every lawful full custody arrest, law enforcement officers have an automatic right to conduct a thorough search of the arrestee and the area within his immediate control.' Although the Supreme Court has stated that the search incident to arrest exception to the fourth amendment's general requirement of a search warrant has been "settled from its first enunciation," the doctrine should be reexamined in terms of constitutional jurisprudence.

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The Admissibility Of Social Science Evidence In Person-Oriented Legal Adjudication, Ira P. Robbins Jan 1975

The Admissibility Of Social Science Evidence In Person-Oriented Legal Adjudication, Ira P. Robbins

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Criminal Law Reform In The District Of Columbia, David Aaronson Jan 1975

Criminal Law Reform In The District Of Columbia, David Aaronson

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INTRODUCTION: The prospects for meaningful, comprehensive revision of the District of Columbia's substantive criminal laws have improved markedly in recent years. In the most promising of recent political developments, Congress established a Law Review Commission for the District of Columbia in August of 1974 with a broad mandate to give special consideration to revision of the criminal code.' Since jurisdiction to initiate revision of the criminal laws will pass to the District of Columbia Council in January of 1977 pursuant to the Home Rule Act, Congress has substantial incentive to give final approval to a new criminal code within two …

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George David Horning, Jr., Anthony Morella Apr 1974

George David Horning, Jr., Anthony Morella

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This issue of the American University Law Review is dedicated to the memory of Professor George D. Horning, Jr. by his students and colleagues who best knew his work as an inspiration teacher and a compleat lawyer.

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The Freedom Of Information Act And Vaughn V. Rosen, Robert Vaughn Jan 1974

The Freedom Of Information Act And Vaughn V. Rosen, Robert Vaughn

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INTRODUCTION: Beginning in the summer of 1969, large numbers of law students were mobilized by Ralph Nader for intensive studies of federal agencies. These projects culminated in a number of critical reports focusing on the Federal Trade Commission, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the National Air Pollution Control Administration, and the Food and Drug Administration.' The project participants encountered the bureaucratic roadblocks which citizens commonly face in attempting to invoke the Freedom of Information Act.

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Conveyancing In The National Capitol Region: Local Reform With National Implications, Barlow Burke Jan 1973

Conveyancing In The National Capitol Region: Local Reform With National Implications, Barlow Burke

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Our population is mobile, shifting, and accustomed to swift extensions of credit and speedy completion of transactions. Consequently, it comes as a shock to many entering into their first house purchase that cumbersome and lengthy procedures extend the executory period, incur mystifying expenses, and lack consumer rationale. Homilies of the conveyancing bar to the effect that each parcel of land is unique or that every settlement is a time-consuming process will not long stand in the face of consumer unrest. Nor is future reform likely to be thwarted by either the cries of scholars for more fact gathering and study, …

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Governmental Intervention In Conveyancing Reform, Barlow Burke Jan 1973

Governmental Intervention In Conveyancing Reform, Barlow Burke

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The Faculty of the Washington College of Law, American University, and the Editorial Board of its Law Review, are indeed pleased to publish this series of articles on the improvement of land title records. Interest in this topic currently runs high, but at the same time outdistances an understanding of the issues involved. These issues are both legal and, in the broader sense, institutional. Education of both the public and the legal profession is necessary, and so the Editors have assembled this series of articles, contributed by lawyers, title insurance executives, and concerned experts, on the possibilities for future changes …

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State Air Pollution Control Boards, Robert Vaughn Jan 1971

State Air Pollution Control Boards, Robert Vaughn

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Introduction: By its nature the air pollution problem presents a suitable framework for an analysis of the concept of interest." Air pollution is a complex social and political problem as well as a complex scientific and technological one. This article will attempt to determine if the concept of interest is a concept through which satisfactory solutions to complex problems maybe derived. It is around the concept of interest that many of our legal institutions are created. In addition, interest and combination of interests are used to explain and predict social change. Lawyers often see their role solely as the representatives …

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Creating A Community Process Of Land Development For Urban Growth, Barlow Burke Jan 1971

Creating A Community Process Of Land Development For Urban Growth, Barlow Burke

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Three centuries before Christ, Aristotle postulated that an essential element of a stable democracy is the presence of a landholding middle class-a group of citizens having an intrinsic interest in the effective functioning of the state. He perceived that a home is more than just shelter; it provides the individual with an interest in the success of the commonwealth. This theory takes on special importance today as the press of urban living presents a serious challenge to the ability of our present system to provide adequate living conditions for our citizenry. At present, our population is 205 million; it will …

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The Threat To Citizen Participation In Model Cities, Barlow Burke Jan 1971

The Threat To Citizen Participation In Model Cities, Barlow Burke

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Citizen participation has been advocated as an essential feature of urban antipoverty programs. Ideally, such participation can serve both individual and societal goals. It can provide self-realization and develop personal competence in participants. It can also promote substantively better decisions for government, integrate alienated groups into the governmental process, make government more visible, and gain consent and confidence for a program from the citizenry. All too often, however, bureaucracy has retained a great deal of control over the participatory aspects of governmental programs. The resultant overregulation has stifled the potentially creative role that citizens might have played and destroyed program …

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Redrafting Municipal Housing Codes, Barlow Burke Jan 1971

Redrafting Municipal Housing Codes, Barlow Burke

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No abstract provided.

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A Compleat Lawyer, Anthony Morella Aug 1970

A Compleat Lawyer, Anthony Morella

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George D. Horning, Jr., Professor Emeritus of The Washington College of Law of The American University, is the compleat lawyer.

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Toward A Right Of Control Over The City Planning Process, Barlow Burke Jan 1969

Toward A Right Of Control Over The City Planning Process, Barlow Burke

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