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Territorial Expansion Of The Common Law Ideal, John F. Simmons Nov 1905

Territorial Expansion Of The Common Law Ideal, John F. Simmons

Michigan Law Review

It is a truism to declare that we live in an age of evolution; but evolution is only growth and growth, however trite it may seem, is after all an ever-recurring miracle and a miracle implies the marvelous. Among the marvels which appear in the evolution of our times, none is more remarkable than the persistency of the expansion of the ideas and ideals of the Common Law. Before the dawn of history, the records which the tongues of mankind have kept, and which the persistency of certain tribal peculiarities has confirmed, teach us that the races which today dominate …

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Consideration V Causa In Roman-American Law, Joseph H. Drake Nov 1905

Consideration V Causa In Roman-American Law, Joseph H. Drake

Michigan Law Review

In the case of Mtembre v. Webster, decided recently (19o4) in the Supreme Court of Cape Colony, South Africa, the court (De VILLIERS, J.) says that the causa of Roman-Dutch Law* (oorsaak-German Ursache) has become for all practical purposes equivalent to the valuable consideration of the Common Law., The court says further, 'I can not find that in practice any gratuitous promises except donations-as to which there are especial rules were ever enforced by law.' Sir Frederick Pollock in commenting on this case says, "The power of the Common Law to impose its conceptions on foreign systems when opportunities occur …

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Uniform State Laws Governing Negotiable Documents Of Title, Francis B. James Nov 1905

Uniform State Laws Governing Negotiable Documents Of Title, Francis B. James

Michigan Law Review

Our forefathers, not foreseeing that the States would some day become one country for commercial purposes, failed to vest in Congress power to regulate all commerce, but limited that body to such as was interstate or foreign. An unexpected (and by many now believed erroneous) decision by the Supreme Court of the United States1 in 1869, that a contract between citizens of different states did not constitute interstate commerce, checked the growth of that unity of law so convenient in the development of industries, national in character. For one hundred years, from 1789, when the Constitution was adopted, to 1890, …

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Note And Comment, Harry B. Hutchins, Henry M. Bates, John R. Rood, John R. Rood, Charles R. Dibble, John R. Rood, Horace Lafayette Wilgus Nov 1905

Note And Comment, Harry B. Hutchins, Henry M. Bates, John R. Rood, John R. Rood, Charles R. Dibble, John R. Rood, Horace Lafayette Wilgus

Michigan Law Review

The Law School; Unauthorized Operation by Physician; The Kansas Oil Refinery Bill; Garnishment of Public Corporations; The rule in Wild's Case Today; Effect of a complicated Form of Ballot on the Elector's Freedom of Choice; Situs of Debts for Garnishment; Malicious Interference With the Contract of Employment

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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Nov 1905

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Banks--Equity--Insolvency--Preference of Creditors; Banks--Special or General Deposit; Constitutional law--Due Process of Law; Constitutional Law--Right of Property; Contract--Liability for Breach in Discharge of a Professor; Corporations--Liability of Directors for Excessive Indebtedness; Criminal Law--Larceny Distinguished from False Pretenses; Criminal Law--Remarks of District Attorney--Appeals to Race Prejudice; Damages--Proper Averment in an Action for Deceit in the Sale of Realty; Easement--Right of Way--Immemorial Custom--Easements Appurtenant; Elections--Constitutionality of Law Changing Date--Holding Over; Evidence--Personal Injury--Physical Examination of Plaintiff; Evidence--Physical Examination of Accused; Evidence--Privileged Communication--County Attorney; Execution--Premature--Collateral Attack; Foreign Corporations--Service of Process on Officer; Homestead--Oral Contract for Conveyance--Specific Performance; Husband and Wife--Liability of Husband for the Support …

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Recent Legal Literature, Joseph H. Drake, Victor H. Lane, John R. Rood, Victor H. Lane, John R. Rood Nov 1905

Recent Legal Literature, Joseph H. Drake, Victor H. Lane, John R. Rood, Victor H. Lane, John R. Rood

Michigan Law Review

Willard: Notes to the Spanish Civil Code; Howe: Studies in the civil Law and its relations to the jurisprudence of England and America, with references to the alw of our insular possessions; Judson: The Law of Interstate Commerce and its Federal Regulation; Bigelow: The Law of Crimes; Wheeler: Daniel Webster, The Expounder of the Constitution; Goodwin: A Treatise on the Law of Real Property

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Recent Legal Literature, Victor H. Lane, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Victor H. Lane, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, James H. Brewster Jun 1905

Recent Legal Literature, Victor H. Lane, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Victor H. Lane, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, James H. Brewster

Michigan Law Review

Wigmore: A Treatise on the System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law including the Statutes and Judicial Decisions of all Jurisdiction of the United States; Snyder: The Interstate Commerce Act and Federal Anti-Trust Laws, including the Sherman act, the act creating the Bureau of Corporations, the Elkins act, the act to expedite suits in the Federal courts, act relating to telegraph, military, and post roads, act affecting equipment of cars and locomotives of carriers engaged in interstate commerce, with all amendments, with comments and authorities, and rules of practice and forms used in practice before the Interstate Commerce …

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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jun 1905

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Banks, National--Stockholders' Liability--Statute of Limitations; Bills and Notes--Indorsements Procured by Fraud; Carriers--Drover's pass--Release from Liability; Carriers--Unreasonable Freight Rates--Interstate Commerce Act--Common Law Remedy; Chattel Mortgages--Failure to Record--Mortgagor in Possession--Estoppel; Connecting Carriers--Loss of Goods--Liability; Constitutional Law--Civil Rights--Discrimination in Licenses; Constitutional Law--Eight Hour Law--Police Power--Health Regulations; Corporations--Duplicate Stock Certificate--Indemnity; Corporations--Subscription to Stock--Liability of Subscriber; Equity--Specific Performance--Contract to Make Will; Evidence--Physicians of conflicting Schools--Competency as Witnesses; Evidence--Radiograph--X-ray; Garnishment--One Railroad as Debtor of Another; Husband and Wife--Application of Doctrine of Tenancy by Entireties to Personality; Husband and Wife--Indebtedness to Wife--Notes--Presumption of Payment; Judgment--Default--appearance; Libel--Publishing of a White Man that He is "Colored"; Master and Servant--Concurrent …

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Mandamus Against A Governor, Edward J. Myers Jun 1905

Mandamus Against A Governor, Edward J. Myers

Michigan Law Review

The question whether the courts have the power to issue he writ of mandamus against the chief executive of a state to compel the performance of a duty imposed upon him by law, has been answered in two irreconcilable lines of decision-the one being that the Governor is not answerable to the writ to compel the performance of his duty, be it either discretionary or ministerial in its character, the other, that he is liable to the writ to compel the performance of duties purely ministerial in nature. Mr. High, in his work on Extraordinary Legal Remedies, says: "The jurisdiction …

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Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review Jun 1905

Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

The Michigan Railroad Tax Cases; Is a vote by Machine a Constitutional Ballot?--Signing "At the End" of a Will; Another Attempt to Evade the Lottery Laws; Saving Exception on Overruling of Motion to Quash Summons; Wills Executed Without Animus Testandi; The Legal Status of a Participant in a Guessing Contest

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Liability Of Water Companies For Fire Losses Another View, Albert Martin Kales May 1905

Liability Of Water Companies For Fire Losses Another View, Albert Martin Kales

Michigan Law Review

In the Superior Court of Cook County, Illinois, before Judge Arthur H. Frost, there was recently presented in substance this case: A private corporation furnishing water to a municipality for fire protection had contracted with the town, in consideration of certain fire hydrant rentals, to keep at all times a pressure of water of at least thirty-five pounds per square inch on the water pipes connected with said fire hydrants, and, in case of a fire, to increase, at once, the pressure to forty pounds per square inch. A fire occurred. It was assumed that the water company had notice …

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Marriage And Divorce In State And Church, Benjamin Brewster May 1905

Marriage And Divorce In State And Church, Benjamin Brewster

Michigan Law Review

When, in 1831, the French philosopher De Tocqueville visited America, he was impressed with the stability of the marriage relation. In his great work, "Democracy in America," he thus sums up the results of his observations: "There is certainly no country in the world where the tie of marriage is so much respected as in America, or where conjugal happiness is more highly or worthily appreciated." And this acute and discerning reasoner makes a further reflection, from his stand-point as one interested in the maintenance of order and stability in the state: "Agitated by the tumultuous passions which frequently disturb …

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Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review May 1905

Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Lesson in Patriotism from Pennsylvania; The Effect of a Motion by Each Party for a Directed Verdict; The Right of Privacy; Mutual Mistake as to the Quantity of Land Conveyed; The Privilege; Riparian Owner's Title to Contiguous Islands;

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Recent Legal Literature, Edson R. Sunderland May 1905

Recent Legal Literature, Edson R. Sunderland

Michigan Law Review

Taylor: Jurisdiction and Procedure of the Supreme Court of the United States; The American State Reports, and Green: Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of last resort of the several states from 1887 to 1904, contained in the American State Reports, Vols. 1 to 96, inclusive, and of the notes to the cases reported therein, and Torbert: Table of Cases alphabetically arranged as to the several states in the American Decisions, 100 vols., American Reports, 60 vols., American State Reports, 100 vols.,showing the cases to which notes are appended, also what cases in these …

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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review May 1905

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bailments--Care Required of Agistor--Special Contracts; Bankruptcy--Trading Corporations--Hotels; Common Carriers--discrimination--Exclusive Depot Privileges; Conditional Sales--Street Railway Equipment--Rights of Vendor; Constitutional Law--Class Legislation--Equal Protection of the Amendment of the Federal Constitution and the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights; Constitutional Law--Interference with Civil rights--Power of Congress to Enforce the Fourteenth Amendment; Contempt of Court--Fraudulent Claims; Contract--Assignment; Contract to Indemnify Against negligence--Statutory Prohibition--Public Policy; Corporations--Sale of corporate Property to Directors--Validity; Damages--Remote; Deeds--Duress--Grantor in Possession; Deeds--Restriction Against Building Tenement House--Deeds--Standing Timber--Construction; Equity--Possession of Personal Property; Evidence--Hypothetical Question; Execution--Exemptions--Life Insurance; Fixtures--Mortgage--Distruction of Property; Foreign Corporations--Service of Summons of Officer of; Highway--Rights of Abutting Owner; Husband and Wife--Contracts--Effects of …

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University Of Michigan Department Of Law Annual Announcement 1905-1906 And Catalogue Of Students For 1904-1905, University Of Michigan Law School Apr 1905

University Of Michigan Department Of Law Annual Announcement 1905-1906 And Catalogue Of Students For 1904-1905, University Of Michigan Law School

Law School Announcement and Bulletins

Contents: Announcements for 1905-1906; Board of Regents; Faculty of Law; Department of Law; Work in the Department of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Students; Summary of Students; Officers of the Alumni Association.

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Curb-Stone Patent Opinions, Dwight B. Cheever Apr 1905

Curb-Stone Patent Opinions, Dwight B. Cheever

Michigan Law Review

Having been asked almost every day for the last nine years for offhand-commonly called curb-stone-opinions on one or more of certain very elementary propositions in Patent Law, it has occurred to me that perhaps a discussion of some of these questions would be of more practical value to the readers of this magazine than a comprehensive discussion of a more elaborate subject.

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Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review Apr 1905

Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Statute Requiring Examination and License as Prerequisites to Ownership or Management of a Dental Office Unconstitutional; Railroad Control of the Telegraph Business; The Need of Uniform Laws Governing "Conditional Sales"; Jurisdiction of Equity over Void Instruments; Quitclaim Deed as Affecting the Question of Good Faith; Competency of a child as a Witness; Compensation for Party Walls as Between Subsequent Grantees;

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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Apr 1905

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Attachment--Equity Decree in Support of; Bankruptcy--Attachment--Sheriff's Fees; Bankruptcy--title of Trustee--Validity and Preservation of Liens; Bills and Notes--Discharge of Endorser of Check--Waiver; Bills and notes--Indorsement of Payee Forged by Drawer--Recovery by Drawee; Constitutional law--Equal Protection of the Laws--master and Servant--Railroad Fellow Servants' Act; Corporate Stock--Statute Requiring Registration of Transfer--Attachment; Criminal law--Evidence--confidential Communications--Letters from Accused to Wife; Dead body--Action for Mutilation; Deeds--Delivery--Estoppel; Deeds--Fraudulent Conveyance--bona Fide Purchaser from Fraudulent Grantee; Domicil--Election--Residence and Intention; Ejectiment--By Railroad Company for Right of Way; Equity--navigable Waters--Obstruction--Special Injury; Equity--Personal Trespass--Injunction; Foreign Corporations--Failure to Comply with Laws--Effect on Contracts; Judicial Officer--Liability of Inferior Judicial Officer Acting Under a Void …

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Recent Legal Literature, Harry B. Hutchins, Robert E. Bunker, Harlow P. Davock, James H. Brewster Apr 1905

Recent Legal Literature, Harry B. Hutchins, Robert E. Bunker, Harlow P. Davock, James H. Brewster

Michigan Law Review

Langdell: A Brief Survey of Equity Jurisdiction; Vance: Handbook of the Law of Insurance; Collier: The Law and Practice in Bankruptcy Under the National Bankruptcy Act of 1898; Yearbook of Legislation, 1903;

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University Of Michigan University Bulletin, New Series Vol. Vi No. 4 March 1905 Summer Session Department Of Law Eleventh Annual Announcement, University Of Michigan Law School Mar 1905

University Of Michigan University Bulletin, New Series Vol. Vi No. 4 March 1905 Summer Session Department Of Law Eleventh Annual Announcement, University Of Michigan Law School

Law School Announcement and Bulletins

Contents: Faculty of the Summer Session; Summer Session of the Department of Law; Regular Session of the Department of Law of the University of Michigan; Departments of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and of Medicine and Surgery; Students Enrolled in 1904; Summary of Students.

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Constitutional Limitations On Primary Election Legislation, Floyd R. Mechem Mar 1905

Constitutional Limitations On Primary Election Legislation, Floyd R. Mechem

Michigan Law Review

In determining what aspect of the general question I should discuss in the brief time available, it seemed to me desirable that I should confine my attention to the constitutional aspect of the matter, leaving the discussion of the practical workings of the various laws actually enacted to those who have had more opportunity to observe them. The constitutional side of the matter has already been very ably discussed by Professor Tuttle in MICHIGAN LAW REVIEW and I do not hope to add materially to what is there said, though certain of the questions may be approached in a somewhat …

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Removal Of Public Officers From Office For Cause, Ii, Alonzo H. Tuttle Mar 1905

Removal Of Public Officers From Office For Cause, Ii, Alonzo H. Tuttle

Michigan Law Review

We have seen by the great weight of authority that removal for cause requires notice, charges and a chance to defend. It remains for us to discuss the most difficult question of all. What is the nature of this power? Is it judicial or executive in character? The importance of this question is two-fold. 1. If executive in nature, the courts have no power to review it by the writ of certiorari. If judicial, they have. 2. If judicial, the question arises, is it constitutional to confer such a power on an executive officer? Upon the question whether the power …

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United States Department Of Justice, John A. Fairlie Mar 1905

United States Department Of Justice, John A. Fairlie

Michigan Law Review

The Department of Justice has been developed from the English office of Attorney-General, with important features added in the course of American experience. As early as the reign of Edward I, almost contemporaneous with the appearance of a special legal profession in England, we find Crown Attorneys (Attornati Regis) employed for guarding the royal privileges in the courts. By the time of Edward IV the official title of Attorney-General appears for the first time. A little later, as the distinction between barristers and solicitors became established, the Crown lawyers are distinguished as the King's Attorney and the King's Solicitor. These …

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Ecclsiastical Jurisdiction In England, Edwin Maxley Mar 1905

Ecclsiastical Jurisdiction In England, Edwin Maxley

Michigan Law Review

Previous to the invasion of William the Conqueror the ecclesiastical jurisdiction in England was not at all clearly defined. Under the protection, and, as protection implies jurisdiction, under the jurisdiction of the bishops were the following: sacred persons and sacred things. Among the former were included men in orders, monks and nuns; and among the latter: churches and church-yards, books and furniture of churches, sacraments, ecclesiastical and marital rituals. So far as can be found, there were not at that time any separate ecclesiastical courts. The bishops, with the assistance of archdeacons and deans, exercised their ecclesiastical jurisdiction through the …

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Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review Mar 1905

Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

The Federal Safety Appliance Act as a Regulation of Interstate Commerce; Liability of Christian Science Healer for Negligence and Deceit; Iowa and the Rule in Shelley's Case; Are Conditions Imposed by the Vendor of Chattels Binding on Subsequent Purchasers? Necessity for the Personal Presence of the Accused Upon Arraignment; Unconstitutional Aids to Local Industries; Damages for Mental Suffering Unaccompanied by Physical Injury

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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Mar 1905

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Adverse Possession--Boundaries--Mistake; Attachment--Fraudulent Conveyance--Damages for Breach of Promise of Marriage; Bailments--Liability of Private Carrier on a Special Contract; Bailments--Loss of Goods Resulting from Violation of Ordinance; Constitutional Law--Equal Protection of the Laws--Due Process--State's control of Fish and Game; Contributory Negligence--Passenger on Car Platform; Conveyance--Standing Timber--Recording--Bona Fide Purchaser; Deeds--Building Restrictions--Easements; Deeds--Rule in Shelley's Case; Equity--Mistake of Fact--Negligence; Evidence--Photograph--X-Ray; Executors and Administrators--Liability of Executrix to Account fo rTrust Estate Held by Her Testator; Foreign Corporations--Interstate Commerce; Garnishment--Situs of Debt; Gift-Parent and Child--Undue Influence--Presumption; Guardian and Ward--Filling of Blank After Execution; married Women--Separate Estate--Note and Mortgage to Secure Husband's Debt; Master and Servant--Independent …

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Recent Legal Lit, Edson R. Sunderland, Henry M. Bates, Gustav Stein, Gustav Stein Mar 1905

Recent Legal Lit, Edson R. Sunderland, Henry M. Bates, Gustav Stein, Gustav Stein

Michigan Law Review

Willoughby: The American Constitutional System; Ingersoll: Handbook of the Law of Public Corporations; Gilbert (ed.): Street Railway Reports, Annotated; Patterson: The United States and the States Under the Constitution

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Removal Of Public Officers From Office For Cause, I, Alonzo H. Tuttle Feb 1905

Removal Of Public Officers From Office For Cause, I, Alonzo H. Tuttle

Michigan Law Review

Decidedly the most important and best considered debate in the history of Congress, is what Wm. Evarts calls the debate that took place in 1789 in the first session of Congress, under the Constitution, on the question of the nature of the power of the President to remove his appointees from office. The character of this debate is discussed elsewhere in this magazine." Suffice it to say that as a result it was decided then by Congress that under the Constitution the President has the absolute power of removal of all his appointees, without the assent of the Senate. This …

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Recent Legal Literature, Victor H. Lane, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Gustav Stein, Horace Lafayette Wilgus Feb 1905

Recent Legal Literature, Victor H. Lane, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Gustav Stein, Horace Lafayette Wilgus

Michigan Law Review

Bodington: An Outline of the French Law of Evidence; Tompkins: A Summary of the Law of Private Corporations and Cases on Corporations, prepared for use of Students in the University Law School (2nd ed.); Pollock: The Expansion of the Common Law; Parker: Where and How, A Handbook of Incorporation

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