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Insurance-Gift-Right Of Named Beneficiary Of Life Policy To Proceeds As Against A Donee By Delivery, Bruce L. Moore S.Ed.
Insurance-Gift-Right Of Named Beneficiary Of Life Policy To Proceeds As Against A Donee By Delivery, Bruce L. Moore S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
Insured, in accordance with the terms of a life insurance policy, named the woman with whom he was then living as beneficiary. Subsequently, he returned to his wife and handed the policy to her with appropriate words indicating an intention to make a present and absolute delivery of it to her as a gift. No notice of a change of beneficiary was given to the insurance company. The policy reserved the right to insured to change the beneficiary by filing a written request with the company, such change to take effect only when indorsed on the policy by the company. …
Labor Law-Applicability Of The Lea Act To Activities Of The American Federation Of Musicians, W. J. Schrenk, Jr.
Labor Law-Applicability Of The Lea Act To Activities Of The American Federation Of Musicians, W. J. Schrenk, Jr.
Michigan Law Review
Defendant, acting as president of a local union of the American Federation of Musicians, requested a new contract with a broadcasting station licensed by the Federal Communications Commission, including a provision that the licensee hire three extra musicians, raising to six the total number of musicians employed. When negotiations regarding this provision failed, defendant withdrew from the licensee's services the three musicians (members of the A.F. of M.) already employed by it. An action was, then brought to prosecute defendant under the amendment to the Federal Communications Act, popularly known as the Lea Act, which prohibits the use of threats …
Future Interests-Deeds-Construction Of Language To Create A Trust And A Condition Subsequent, Ira M. Price, Ii S.Ed.
Future Interests-Deeds-Construction Of Language To Create A Trust And A Condition Subsequent, Ira M. Price, Ii S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
A deed conveyed land to a named schoolmaster of Bristol and his successors forever "for their support for instruction of the children of the town, . . . Provided always . . . that if the said town shall neglect to place a good and sufficient Grammar schoolmaster in the said town at the death or removal of any schoolmaster . . .for the space of twelve months after the said death or removal, that the land shall" revert to me . . . and my heirs as fully and as effectively as if this deed had not been made …
Landlord And Tenant-Lease Covenant Against Unlawful Business, Bruce L. Moore S.Ed.
Landlord And Tenant-Lease Covenant Against Unlawful Business, Bruce L. Moore S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
In an action to dispossess defendants of certain leased property, plaintiff alleged that defendants breached an express covenant in the lease by which defendants covenanted that they would use the premises for a store, and would not use the premises "for any unlawful business or purpose whatever." Defendants used the premises for a general mercantile store, operating under the trade name "Stop 'N Shop." In so doing, defendants failed to comply with a statute which provided that "It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in a business . . . under any name which does not plainly show …
Rights In Land-Legal Status Of The Spite Fence, Leroy Redfern
Rights In Land-Legal Status Of The Spite Fence, Leroy Redfern
Michigan Law Review
Defendants erected a brick wall upon their lot in a manner that cut off light and air to the first floor window of the adjoining premises belonging ,to plaintiffs. Plaintiffs brought a bill in equity to compel removal of the wall. Upon finding that the wall was built merely to annoy plaintiffs, and that it was of no beneficial use to defendants, the chancellor ordered it removed. On appeal, held, reversed. Defendants being lawfully entitled to erect the wall upon their land, the court will not inquire into their motive for so doing. Cohen v. Perrino, (Pa. 1947) …
Constitutional Law--Due Process And The Bill Of Rights--Self-Incrimination, F. William Hutchinson
Constitutional Law--Due Process And The Bill Of Rights--Self-Incrimination, F. William Hutchinson
Michigan Law Review
In the course of evolving workable doctrines which give substance and meaning to the skeletal phrase "due process of law" as used in the Fourteenth Amendment to limit state action, the Supreme Court has frequently been called on to determine the scope of the several prohibitions and guarantees of the Bill of Rights of the federal Constitution. This general problem, and more particularly the application of the Fifth Amendment self-incrimination clause to state criminal proceedings, was again presented in a recent case and resulted in a sharp division of opinion within the Court.