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Constitutional Law - Due Process And The Frazier-Lemke Acts, Henry Earnest Halladay
Constitutional Law - Due Process And The Frazier-Lemke Acts, Henry Earnest Halladay
Michigan Law Review
Recent decisions involving the constitutional validity of the first and second Frazier-Lemke Acts have again raised the old spectre of due process. The questions involved related to the power of the Federal Government to regulate the rights, duties, and liabilities existent between debtors and creditors in the field of farm mortgages under the bankruptcy power. To forego an extended discussion of the history of due process as a limitation on governmental fiat, let it suffice to say that the concept, which began with Magna Carta ran through early definitions in the United States limiting it to procedural matters and attempts …
The Problem Of Transfers Under Bulk Sales Laws: A Study Of Absolute Transfers And Liquidating Trusts, Thomas Clifford Billig, William L. Branch Jr.
The Problem Of Transfers Under Bulk Sales Laws: A Study Of Absolute Transfers And Liquidating Trusts, Thomas Clifford Billig, William L. Branch Jr.
Michigan Law Review
Although the first bulk sales law in the United States was enacted more than forty years ago, the host of decisions still emanating from the courts bears ample witness to the fact that this field of legal learning remains remarkably fertile. For the first decade following the original Louisiana Bulk Sales Act of 1894 the several state legislatures were busily engaged in passing statutes of similar import. During the next three decades the courts became as fully occupied as had been the legislatures in determining precisely what the legislatures meant by the language employed in the several acts. This process …