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Discharge In Bankruptcy Of Principal's Inchoate Obligation To Indemnify His Surety, Evans Holbrook Jan 1915

Discharge In Bankruptcy Of Principal's Inchoate Obligation To Indemnify His Surety, Evans Holbrook

Articles

In the recent case of R. P. Williams, et al. v. United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, 35 Sup. Ct. 289, the United States Supreme Court has at last passed upon a question that has vexed the courts ever since the enactment of the Bankruptcy Act of 1898. As stated by the Supreme Court, the question is this: "Does a discharge in bankruptcy acquit an express obligation of the principal to indemnify his surety against loss by reason of their joint bond conditioned to secure his faithful performance of a building contract broken prior to the bankruptcy when the surety …

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Jurisdictional Facts, John R. Rood Jan 1915

Jurisdictional Facts, John R. Rood

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The advance sheets of the Northwestern Reporter for January 29th, 1915, contain two cases in which a supreme court declared proceedings that had been carried through to judgment void, (not merely voidable) because of the lack of a fact which the supreme court regarded as jurisdictional, (Sandusky Grain Co. v. Sanilac Circuit Judge (Mich. 1915), 150 N. W. 329 and Bombolis v. Minn. & St. L. R. Co. (Minn. 1914), 150 N. W. 385), and another case in which the court was equally divided as to whether the essential facts appeared (Fisher et al v. Gardnier et al. (Mich. 1915), …

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The Inefficiency Of The American Jury, Edson R. Sunderland Jan 1915

The Inefficiency Of The American Jury, Edson R. Sunderland

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What is proposed in the present article is to show that in attempting to preserve the independence of the jury in its exclusive juris- diction over questions of fact, the people and the courts in most American jurisdictions have departed from the common law practice and have introduced a principle calculated to undermine the very institution which they wish to strengthen. That is to say, through the rules prohibiting judges from commenting on the weight of the evidence, juries tend to become irresponsible, verdicts tend to become matters of chance, and the intricacy of procedure, with its cost, delay and …

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The Proposed Michigan Judicature Act, Edson R. Sunderland Jan 1915

The Proposed Michigan Judicature Act, Edson R. Sunderland

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The Michigan Legislature, at its last session, passed an act (No. 286, Public Acts of 1913) providing for the appointment of a Commission to revise and consolidate the laws of the State relating to procedure. The Governor appointed Alva M. Cummins, J. Clyde Watt, and Mark W. Stevens as members of this commission, and the result of their labors has just appeared in the form of a proposed bill regulating the entire subject of procedure in all the courts of the State. The bill is a long one, embracing 565 printed pages, but it is much less voluminous than the …

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The Form Of Summons Under The Recent Michigan Judicature Act, W. Gordon Stoner Jan 1915

The Form Of Summons Under The Recent Michigan Judicature Act, W. Gordon Stoner

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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, 1915, § 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 the very outset.

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A Statement To The Alumni, Henry M. Bates Jan 1915

A Statement To The Alumni, Henry M. Bates

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Plans are now complete for the demonstration by Michigan alumni of their loyalty to and interest in their Alma Mater. Michigan has never before called upon all of her former students to help her in any great movement for the benefit of the entire University. It has required some all comprehending movement like the Union to afford this opportunity, but now the time and the opportunity are at hand, when Michigan men may put their shoulders to the wheel and carry through a project, which "Prexy" Angell, President Hutchins, the Board of Regents, the Senate Council and the Alumni Association …

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International Law In War, Thomas Niemeyer Jan 1915

International Law In War, Thomas Niemeyer

Michigan Law Review

International Law in War and the International Law of War are two distinct things, and the fact that they are not carefully enough distinguished has been the source -in the present war of certain misunderstandings that are in no way unimportant.

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Neutralization Of Belgium And The Doctrine Of Kriegsraison, Jesse S. Reeves Jan 1915

Neutralization Of Belgium And The Doctrine Of Kriegsraison, Jesse S. Reeves

Michigan Law Review

Anything which Professor Niemeyer has to say in the field of International Law is deserving of serious attention. Under his editorial supervision the ZEITSCHRIFT INTERNATIONALES RECHT has become a valuable factor in the development of International Law in Germany. The foregoing article, which recently appeared in the JURISTICHE WOCHENSCHRIFT, has been translated with his consent with a view to its publication in these pages. The leading thought of the article is to arrive at a justification of Germany's failure to observe the Treaty of London of 1839 from the point of view of International Law. He rests his case (1) …

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Comparison Of Some Methods Of Conciliation And Arbitration Of Industrial Disputes, James H. Brewster Jan 1915

Comparison Of Some Methods Of Conciliation And Arbitration Of Industrial Disputes, James H. Brewster

Michigan Law Review

In these times when we see combinations of employers co-operating under trade agreements with combinations of employees to conduct immense industries, we are apt to forget the remarkable development of ideas concerning industrial economy that has occurred within a life-time. It was only eighty years ago that the merchants of Boston met to discountenance and check what were then" regarded as unlawful combinations of workmen formed to protest against the long work day, low wages, and oppressive rules of their masters. The sum of $20,0oo was raised at this meeting of merchants and ship owners to fight the movement for …

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Recent Important Decisions Jan 1915

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.

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Book Reviews, Edwin C. Goddard, Victor H. Lane Jan 1915

Book Reviews, Edwin C. Goddard, Victor H. Lane

Michigan Law Review

A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.

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Law's Delays, Grant Foreman Dec 1914

Law's Delays, Grant Foreman

Michigan Law Review

A Gentleman of an acquisitive nature was adventuring about a large city seeking what he might turn to quick profit. Contact with the so-called font of justice gave him an idea, following which he opened up a quiet brokerage business. Perceiving a demand for jurors who would decide a case favorably, to the side that was willing to pay a decent price, he set about supplying that demand. The trade mark on his goods was a pin stuck in the lapel of the coat in such" fashion that in the jury box they would Without ostentation be recognized by his …

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New Interpretation Of The Sherman Act, Clarence E. Eldridge Dec 1914

New Interpretation Of The Sherman Act, Clarence E. Eldridge

Michigan Law Review

What has been said in the preceding part of this discussion addresses itself to the proposition that the SHERMAN Act does not mean what the District Court assumed it to mean. Naturally, such a negative discussion must be preliminary to a consideration of the more .comprehensive question "What does the SHERMAN ACT mean?" For, of course, even if the theory of the law upon which the District Court based its judgment was erroneous, still that fact would be of little or no practical importance if any tenable theory of the law were to justify the judgment.

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Book Reviews, Evans Holbrook, John R. Rood, Henry M. Bates Dec 1914

Book Reviews, Evans Holbrook, John R. Rood, Henry M. Bates

Michigan Law Review

A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.

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Note And Comment, Henry Rottschaefer, Walter Mckenzie, Karl J. Mohr, John G. Cedergren, J G. Tucker Jr Dec 1914

Note And Comment, Henry Rottschaefer, Walter Mckenzie, Karl J. Mohr, John G. Cedergren, J G. Tucker Jr

Michigan Law Review

The Use of Multiple in Determining the Value of Railroad Lands - The case of Chicago & N. W. Ry. Co. v. Smith et al., decided by the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota and reported in 21o Fed. 632, contains an interesting suggestion as to the means to be employed in determining the value of lands used for railway purposes, which 'Was not, however, accepted by the court.

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Recent Important Decisions Dec 1914

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.

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New Interpretation Of The Sherman Act, Clarence E. Eldridge Nov 1914

New Interpretation Of The Sherman Act, Clarence E. Eldridge

Michigan Law Review

Generally speaking, there never has been any serious disagreement as to the purpose of the SHERMAN ACT. Everyone -friends and foes, judges and economists, lawyers and laymen- admits that it was enacted with a view to foster competition, or, as Justice HARLAN put it in the Northern Securities case,' "to prescribe the rule of free competition."

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Protection Of Aliens By The United States, Simeon E. Baldwin Nov 1914

Protection Of Aliens By The United States, Simeon E. Baldwin

Michigan Law Review

Every country owes a duty of protection to aliens who are lawfully within its territory. "An alien friend, however transient his presence may be, is entitled to a temporary protection, and owes in return a temporary allegiance."

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New Probation Law Of Michigan, Charles B. Collingwood Nov 1914

New Probation Law Of Michigan, Charles B. Collingwood

Michigan Law Review

Nothing connected with the work of a circuit judge demands more thoughtful consideration or occasions him more anxiety than the punishment to be meted out to the men and women who have violated the laws of the state. In almost every other matter there is an opportunity for review by an appellate court. Where litigants differ widely from the decision of the circuit court it is altogether likely that there will be an appeal and the matter will be finally adjudicated by another court. But from the sentence given to one who has plead guilty, or has been found guilty …

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Some Myths Of The Law, Walter Clark Nov 1914

Some Myths Of The Law, Walter Clark

Michigan Law Review

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things." These words of the great Apostle to the Gentiles apply to every calling and to every profession under the sun save only that of the law.

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Note And Comment, Joseph H. Drake, Hollis Harshman, Marcy K. Brown, Leslie C. Mcclelland Nov 1914

Note And Comment, Joseph H. Drake, Hollis Harshman, Marcy K. Brown, Leslie C. Mcclelland

Michigan Law Review

The Law School opens with an attendance of 500, the decrease from last year's numbers (on account of the increased requirements for admission) being less than was anticipated.

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Recent Important Decisions Nov 1914

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.

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University Of Michigan Legal Directory, Arthur E. Lybolt Jul 1914

University Of Michigan Legal Directory, Arthur E. Lybolt

Miscellaneous Law School History & Publications

A directory of University of Michigan Law School graduates through the Law Class of 1913.

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University Of Michigan Department Of Law Annual Announcement 1914-1915 And Catalogue Of Students 1913-1914, University Of Michigan Law School Jun 1914

University Of Michigan Department Of Law Annual Announcement 1914-1915 And Catalogue Of Students 1913-1914, University Of Michigan Law School

Law School Announcement and Bulletins

Department of Law; Library; Directions to Candidates for Admission; Requirements for Admission; Admission as Candidate for a Degree; Combined Course in Collegiate and Law Studies; Admission of Special Students; Admission to Advanced Standing; Class Rating; Degrees; Courses of Instruction; Special Courses; Summer Session; The Practice Court; Conveyancing; Oratory; Oratorical Associations; Testimonials and Medals; Literary Societies; Work in the Department of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Text-Books and Books of Reference; Fees and Expenses; Michigan Law Review; Summer Session; Registration; Requirements for Admission; Fees; Credit; Advanced Standing; Courses of Study; Courses of Free Lectures; Graduates of 1913; Students; Summary of Students;

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Note And Comment, Harry W. Lippincott, John S. Kelley Jr, George E. Kennedy, Louis R. Lackey Jun 1914

Note And Comment, Harry W. Lippincott, John S. Kelley Jr, George E. Kennedy, Louis R. Lackey

Michigan Law Review

Mutuality in Automobile Agency Contracts - Within the past few years several courts have had to pass upon and construe argreements between the manufacturers and the selling-agents of automoobiles, which have necessitated a thorough discussion of the principles of mutuality of obligation of contracts. The attempt to reach a correct solution has developed a vigorous difference of opinion on the subject in some recent cases which it may be of interest to discuss and compare.

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Lay Tradition As To The Lawyer, Roscoe Pound Jun 1914

Lay Tradition As To The Lawyer, Roscoe Pound

Michigan Law Review

We all know the lay tradition as to the lawyer. Mike Monaghan rhymes lawyer with trier. He tells us that the Probate Court is instituted to see that "iviry mimber of the bair gits a fair chanct at phwat the dicaysed didn't take wid 'im." In the timeworn anecdote of the epitaph "here lies an honest lawyer" everyone is ready to say, "that's Strange."' Laymen, who, sitting as arbitrators, will insist on technicalities which the law would instantly reject, and in corner-grocery discussions will argue that a contract signed with a lead pencil is void for informality, are quite sure …

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Content Of Covenants In Leases, Harry A. Bigelow Jun 1914

Content Of Covenants In Leases, Harry A. Bigelow

Michigan Law Review

In determining what covenants in a lease will run so as to be enforceable by or against the assignee of the lessee or lessor, the formula that has been consecrated to this problem is that the covenant "must affect the nature, quality, or value of the thing demised or the mode of occupying it." This phrase which was used by Lord ELLENBOROUGH in Congleton v. Pattison is an expansion of the statement in Spencer's case that such a covenant must "touch or concern the thing demised." A second statement not so frequently quoted is that of that "if it be …

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Expensive Futility Of The United States Trade Mark Statute, Edward S. Rogers Jun 1914

Expensive Futility Of The United States Trade Mark Statute, Edward S. Rogers

Michigan Law Review

Every lawyer of much experience knows the client who tip-toes into his office, closes the door carefully, and with a great show of secrecy announces that he has discovered or invented the best name for a soda cracker, a patent medicine, a soft drink, or what not, that human ingenuity ever conceived. He wants it protected before any one can steal it from him. He wants it "Copyrighted." This is the expression most commonly used. He seems to be under the impression that some incantation can be performed by means of which he will be able to secure to himself …

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Recent Important Decisions Jun 1914

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.

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Book Reviews, Horace L. Wilgus, Joseph H. Drake Jun 1914

Book Reviews, Horace L. Wilgus, Joseph H. Drake

Michigan Law Review

A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.

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