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The Registration Of Land Titles, John R. Rood Jan 1914

The Registration Of Land Titles, John R. Rood

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It is proposed in this paper to consider some of the advantages and disadvantages of the older system of no registration, the later system of registering the instruments of conveyance, and the latest system of making the title depend entirely on a recorded adjudication that it is thus and so, which absolutely displaces all former titles, adjudicated or otherwise. It is also proposed to consider some of the reasons why the older systems persist.

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Legislating The Incumbent Out Of Office, W. Gordon Stoner Jan 1914

Legislating The Incumbent Out Of Office, W. Gordon Stoner

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Under the English common law the officer's right or interest in the office which he held was regarded as a property right, an incorporeal hereditament.1 Largely because of the inherent difference between the nature and incidents of the public office at common law and those of the public office in this country, this conception never gained general acceptance here.2 In a few cases,3 and particularly in the decisions of the courts of North Carolina,4 offices have been asserted to be the property of the rightful incumbent. In these decisions the officer's right has been regarded as less absolute, perhaps, than …

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Adverse Possession In The Case Of The Rights Of Way Of The Pacific Railroad Companies, Ralph W. Aigler Jan 1914

Adverse Possession In The Case Of The Rights Of Way Of The Pacific Railroad Companies, Ralph W. Aigler

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While the weight of authority is probably to the effect that railroad rights of way may be lost by adverse possession, the authorities are by no means agreed. See 12 MICH. L. REV. 144. The rights of way of certain of the Pacific Railroad Companies have been declared not to be subject to the ordinary rules as to adverse possession, on the ground that by the Congressional grants the four-hundred-foot-strips were conveyed only for railroad purposes with the ultimate possibility of reverter in the United States, which had the effect of making such lands inalienable by the railroad companies whether …

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The Right To Divert Water To Non-Riparian Land, Ralph W. Aigler Jan 1914

The Right To Divert Water To Non-Riparian Land, Ralph W. Aigler

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Though at one time in England there may have been some doubt as to the character of a riparian owner's rights in the waters of the stream, it must be considered as definitely settled by a series of cases that the doctrine of reasonable use by all the proprietors on the stream is the rule of the common law, and that the matter of priority of use or appropriation is, under that system, immaterial, unless, of course, a question of prescriptive right is involved. Wright v. Howard, 1 Sim. & S. 190; Mason v. Hill, 3 B. & Ad. 304, …

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Some Recent Developments In The Department Of Law, Henry M. Bates Jan 1914

Some Recent Developments In The Department Of Law, Henry M. Bates

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The present continues to be a period of rapid and interesting development in legal education. The criticisms to which the law and its administration by courts and lawyers have been subjected during the last few years very naturally and properly has led to a careful reconsideration of existing methods of legal instruction in the hope that they might perhaps be improved. The truth is that scientific legal education, comparatively speaking, is still in its infancy both in England and in the United States. Instruction in law of the dogmatic and supposedly purely practical kind has long been carried on efficiently …

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Jurisprudence: A Formal Science, Joseph H. Drake Jan 1914

Jurisprudence: A Formal Science, Joseph H. Drake

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Holland defines jurisprudence as "the formal science of positive law". The meaning of science is plain enough. A good many pages are devoted to the elucidation of the words "positive" and "law," but the term "formal" he explains only by analogy. As there is a formal science of grammar to which belongs, for example, the concept of possession, which has its material manifestation in Latin grammar in a genetive termination and in English grammar in the preposition "of," so there is a formal science of law, material manifestations of whose fundamental principles are found in various systems of actual legal …

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Defects In Our Legal System, Henry M. Bates Jan 1914

Defects In Our Legal System, Henry M. Bates

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That the practice of law and the administration of justice are under a fire of popular distrust and criticism of extraordinary intensity requires no proof. A fact of which there is evidence in numerous contemporary books, in almost every magazine, in the daily papers, in the remarks, or the questions, or it may be in the sneers, of one's friends, requires no further demonstration. The only questions of importance to be answered are to what extent this criticism and this distrust are well founded, what are the remedies for such defects as exist, and how and by whom should they …

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Interstate Commerce And State Control Over Foreign Corporations, Ralph W. Aigler Jan 1914

Interstate Commerce And State Control Over Foreign Corporations, Ralph W. Aigler

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Since Bank of Augusta v. Earle, 13 Pet. 519, there seems to have been no real occasion to doubt the power of a state totally to exclude foreign corporations seeking to engage in intrastate business only. The power to exclude being absolute, there has been no question as to the right of the state to allow the entrance of the foreign corporation for such business upon terms, and the terms may be of any sort, reasonable or unreasonable, except that the corporation seeking to enter cannot as a condition precedent to such entry be required to surrender a right or …

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Can Affidavits Of Jurors To Show Misconduct Be Admitted For The Purpose Of Setting Aside A 'Quotient Verdict'?, Grover C. Grismore Jan 1914

Can Affidavits Of Jurors To Show Misconduct Be Admitted For The Purpose Of Setting Aside A 'Quotient Verdict'?, Grover C. Grismore

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A recent Oklahoma case raises one phase of a question which has been perplexing the courts ever since jury trials were invented, and in regard to which there is a great contrariety of opinion. After a verdict had been rendered for the plaintiff in a personal injury suit, the defendant made a motion for a new trial on the ground of misconduct of the jury, and in support of his motion offered the affidavits of several of the jurors to the effect that the verdict was determined upon as the result of an agreement whereby each one of the jurors …

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The History Of Contract In Early English Equity, W. T. Barbour Jan 1914

The History Of Contract In Early English Equity, W. T. Barbour

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“Mr. Barbour’s contribution to the Studies is an attempt to characterize with some precision and detail the functions of the Chancery in the fifteenth century. The court was gradually differentiated from the King’s Council, and the writs of Edward III’s time calling on persons to appear under penalty of a fine or imprisonment (subpoena), and other special injunctions, was generally framed in terms which leave it undecided whether proceedings were to be taken by the King’s Council, or by the Council under the chairmanship of the Chancellor himself with or without the aid of assessors. By the time of Richard …

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Cases On Principal And Agent, Selected From Decisions Of English And American Courts, Edwin C. Goddard Jan 1914

Cases On Principal And Agent, Selected From Decisions Of English And American Courts, Edwin C. Goddard

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It is a striking proof of the fact that Agency is a modern subject in the law that Blackstone, in his Commentaries on the Laws of England, does not mention the subject by name, and barely makes a four-line reference to one sort of agent in his classification of servants. The old ca~es do, of course, sometimes deal with pure agency questions, but the agent is usually referred to as a servant or a factor, and the questions in issue are generally settled upon some principle of the law of Master and Servant. Agency is essentially a business- relation; hence …

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Corporations And Express Trusts As Business Organizations, Horace Lafayette Wilgus Jan 1914

Corporations And Express Trusts As Business Organizations, Horace Lafayette Wilgus

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PRESIDENT BUTLER of Columbia University is reported to have said in an address before the New York Chamber of Commerce in 1911, that "the limited liability corporation is the greatest single discovery of modem times, whether you judge it by its social, by its ethical, by its industrial, or, in the long run--after we understand it and know how to use it,--by its political, effects." 1

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Defects In Our Legal System, Henry M. Bates Jan 1914

Defects In Our Legal System, Henry M. Bates

Michigan Law Review

That the practice of law and the administration of justice are under a fire of popular distrust and criticism of extraordinary intensity requires no proof. A fact of which there is evidence in numerous contemporary books, in almost every magazine, in the daily papers, in the remarks, or the questions, or it may be in the sneers, of one's friends, requires no further demonstration. The only questions of importance to be answered are to what extent this criticism and this distrust are well founded, what are the remedies for such defects as exist, and how and by whom should they …

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Teaching Of Practice And Procedure In Law Schools, Edson R. Sunderland Jan 1914

Teaching Of Practice And Procedure In Law Schools, Edson R. Sunderland

Michigan Law Review

Criticism of the law, the courts, and the legal profession is one of the popular customs of the day. So constantly and so insistently are we told of the shortcomings of the Bench and Bar that it is hard to hold one's footing against the sweep of the current. One might well suppose from all the clamor that the ancient respectability of the law had suddenly been discovered to be a monstrous pretense, a fraud on the innocence and trustfulness of the people, a cloak for injustice and a mask for oppression.

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If The Lines Of A Junior Lode Location Be Laid Across The Surface Of A Valid Senior Location Will The Junior Location Acquire Extralateral Rights Based On A Portion Of The Vein Which Is Included Within The Senior Location As Against Another Earlier Location Covering The Dip Of The Vein, Myron A. Folsom Jan 1914

If The Lines Of A Junior Lode Location Be Laid Across The Surface Of A Valid Senior Location Will The Junior Location Acquire Extralateral Rights Based On A Portion Of The Vein Which Is Included Within The Senior Location As Against Another Earlier Location Covering The Dip Of The Vein, Myron A. Folsom

Michigan Law Review

It was decided in Del. Monte M. & M. Co. v. Last Chance M. & M. Co.,: that the lines of a junior lode location may be laid upon the surface of a valid senior location (if done openly and peaceably), for the purpose of securing extralateral rights on the dip of a vein the apex of which is within the second and outside of the first. But the court declined to decide whether the junior locator would acquire any extralateral rights based upon a portion of the apex covered by the senior location, saying "Perhaps the rights of the …

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Note And Comment, Albert V. Baumann Jr, Stannley E. Gifford, Donald F. Melhorn, Ralph W. Aigler Jan 1914

Note And Comment, Albert V. Baumann Jr, Stannley E. Gifford, Donald F. Melhorn, Ralph W. Aigler

Michigan Law Review

Interstate Commerce and State Control Over Foreign Corporations - Since Bank of Augusta v. Earle, 13 Pet. 519, there seems to have been no real occasion to doubt the power of a state totally to exclude foreign corporations seeking to engage in intrastate business only. The power to exclude being absolute, there has been no question as to the right of the state to allow the entrance of the foreign corporation for such business upon terms, and the terms may be of any sort, reasonable or unreasonable, except that the corporation seeking to enter cannot as a condition precedent to …

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Recent Important Decisions Jan 1914

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.

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On Uniformity In Judical Decisions Of Cases Arising Under The Uniform Negotiable Instruments Act, Amasa M. Eaton Dec 1913

On Uniformity In Judical Decisions Of Cases Arising Under The Uniform Negotiable Instruments Act, Amasa M. Eaton

Michigan Law Review

When the American Bar Association was formed in 1878, the first object stated in the call was "to assimilate the laws of the different states," and the first article of the Constitution stated that one of the principal objects of the Association was "to advance the science of jurisprudence, to promote the administration of justice and uniformity of legislation throughout the Union."

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Constitutionality Of Teachers' Pensions Legislation Ii:The Validity Of The Proposed Michigan Law, Continued, Horace L. Wilgus Dec 1913

Constitutionality Of Teachers' Pensions Legislation Ii:The Validity Of The Proposed Michigan Law, Continued, Horace L. Wilgus

Michigan Law Review

We considered the constitutionality of Sections I, and II, of the proposed act in the former paper.

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Recent Important Decisions Dec 1913

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.

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Debt Of The Modern Law Of Guardianship To Roman Law, Charles P. Sherman Dec 1913

Debt Of The Modern Law Of Guardianship To Roman Law, Charles P. Sherman

Michigan Law Review

The Roman law of guardianship grew out of the family organization. It is also quite closely connected with the law of inheritance. The power of a guardian is that form of family power which ordinarily takes the place of paternal power when there is no one to exercise the latter. It was originally at Rome but an extension of the paternal power. In this respect the conception of guardianship is different in English law -- English guardianship rests on the principle of protecting the bodily and mental immaturity of youth.

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Note And Comment, Gordon Stoner, Grover C. Grismore, Stanley E. Gifford, Stuart S. Wall Dec 1913

Note And Comment, Gordon Stoner, Grover C. Grismore, Stanley E. Gifford, Stuart S. Wall

Michigan Law Review

What is a Public Purpose Justifying the Expenditure Therefore of Money Raised From Taxation - A recent Ohio case raises a question which is frequently discussed in connection with the activities of cities, i. e., 'what is a municipal or public purpose for the accomplishment of which city funds raised from taxation may be expended. The council of the city of Toledo passed an ordinance authorizing the expenditure of $1000 for the purpose of establishing a municipal moving-picture theater. The auditor refused to pay over to the director of public service the fund thus appropriated and mandamus was sought by …

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Book Reviews, Evans Holbrook, Henry M. Bates Dec 1913

Book Reviews, Evans Holbrook, Henry M. Bates

Michigan Law Review

A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.

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Nature Of Legal Rights And Duties, Joseph W. Bingham Nov 1913

Nature Of Legal Rights And Duties, Joseph W. Bingham

Michigan Law Review

One cannot long talk on a legal topic without using the words right and duty or some synonyms. It is familiar hearsay that a purpose of law is to create, delimit, and protect rights and to define and enforce duties. Therefore it is of importance to inquire what is meant by "a right" and by "a duty" when we use these terms in legal discussion. The question is a linguistic one; but in the process of finding the proper answer, we shall have to analyze some of our common sorts of mental concepts and perhaps shall finish with a clear …

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Constitutionality Of Teachers' Pensions Legislation Ii: The Validity Of The Proposed Michigan Law, Horace L. Wilgus Nov 1913

Constitutionality Of Teachers' Pensions Legislation Ii: The Validity Of The Proposed Michigan Law, Horace L. Wilgus

Michigan Law Review

In the preceding paper, we considered pension legislation in general -- its extent, forms, purpose, and relation to the taxing power of the state and nation. It is proposed in this paper to discuss in detail the provisions of the proposed Michigan teachers' pension law in the light of the general principles, set forth in the former paper, with reference to specific constitutional provisions, and the decisions of the courts upon-the validity of pensions for firemen and policemen which are similar in many respects to teachers' pension systems, together with such decisions as have been made concerning the constitutionality of …

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Note And Comment, George E. Kennedy, Louis P. Lackey, John R. Rood, Gordon Stoner, Ralph W. Aigler Nov 1913

Note And Comment, George E. Kennedy, Louis P. Lackey, John R. Rood, Gordon Stoner, Ralph W. Aigler

Michigan Law Review

The Law School -As a result of the increased requirements for admission, which are now in their second year of operation, the attendance at the Law School is less than that of last year, though the decrease is less than was anticipated at the time of the adoption of the higher requirements. The entering class (the second, under the new standard) is about thirty larger than that of last year. There are no changes in the teaching staff, and none of great importance in the curriculum.

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Recent Important Decisions Nov 1913

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.

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Book Reviews, Henry M. Bates Nov 1913

Book Reviews, Henry M. Bates

Michigan Law Review

A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.

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University Of Michigan Department Of Law Annual Announcement 1913 - 1914 And Catalogue Of Students 1912-1913, University Of Michigan Law School Jun 1913

University Of Michigan Department Of Law Annual Announcement 1913 - 1914 And Catalogue Of Students 1912-1913, 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 1912; Students; Summary of Students;

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Relations Between Equity And Law, Wesley Newcomb Hohfield Jun 1913

Relations Between Equity And Law, Wesley Newcomb Hohfield

Michigan Law Review

At the last annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, Professor Walter W. COOK contributed an interesting address on Equity and its relation to Law. Taking as his more specific subject, "THE PLACE OF EQUITY IN OUR LEGAL SYSTEM," the speaker began his discussion with an extensive quotation from MAITLAND'S LECTURES ON EQUITY,--a work cordially welcomed by that distinguished scholar's many admirers upon its posthumous publication in the fall of 1909.

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