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Minutes Of Reunion

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Minutes from the 30th Reunion of the Class of 1886.

Law Class, 1886: University Of Michigan: Record Of 1941 Meeting

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Report of the 55th reunion of the Law Class of 1886.

Minutes Of Reunion

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Minutes from the 35th reunion of the Law Class of 1886.

The Dartmouth College Case And Private Corporations: A Paper Presented By William P. Wells, Of Detroit, At The Ninth Annual Meeting, Auguest 19, 1886., William P. Wells

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The Dartmouth College Case and Private Corporations. Chancellor Kent, writing in 1826, thus expressed himself concerning the Dartmouth College case: "It contains one of the most full and elaborate expositions of the constitutional sanctity of contracts to be met with in any of the reports. The decision in that case did more than any other single act proceeding from the authority of the United States to throw .an impregnable barrier around all rights and franchises derived from the grant of government and to give solidity and inviolability to the literary, charitable, religious and commercial institutions of our country."

Law Department Of The University Of Michigan. Annual Announcement 1886-87., University Of Michigan Law School

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Improved and Extended Course of Instruction; The Lecture Course; Recitations and Examinations; Constitutional History and Political Science; Requirements for Admission; Assignment of Seats; Certificates of Attendance; Requirements for Graduation; Master's Degree; Moot and Club Courts; Prior Reading in Law; Libraries; Text Books and Books of Reference; Fees and Expenses; Students;

Directory Of The Law Class Of 1886

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Directory of the Class of 1886 at its 45th reunion.

Directory Of The Law Class Of 1886

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Directory of the Class of 1886 at its 50th reunion.

Minutes Of Reunion

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Minutes from the 50th Reunion of the Law Class of 1886.

In Re Law 1886, John T. Moffit

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Gossip from 1927 regarding members of the class of 1886.

Minutes Of Reunion

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Minutes from the 45th Reunion of the Law Class of 1886.

Directory Of The Law Class Of 1886

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Directory of the Law Class of 1886 for its 35th reunion.

Directory Of The Law Class Of 1886

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Directory of the Law Class of 1886 for its 40th reunion.

Minutes Of Quarter Centennial Reunion

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Minutes from the 25th reunion of the Law Class of 1886

Minutes Of Reunion

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Minutes from the 40th reunion of the Law Class of 1886

Annual Announcement Of The Department Of Law In The University Of Michigan. 1885-'86., University Of Michigan Law School

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Improved and Extended Course of Instruction; The Lecture Course; Recitations and Examinations; Constitutional History and Political Science; Requirements for Admission; Assignment of Seats; Certificates of Attendance; Requirements for Graduation; Master's Degree; Moot and Club Courts; Prior Reading in Law; Libraries; Text Books and Books of Reference; Fees and Expenses; Students;

Davey V. Aetna Life Ins. Co., Henry W. Rogers

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Professor Rogers considers a case where a life insurance policy appears to be voided by the use of alcoholic beverages by the insured, to the degree of cause of death. Rogers notes: "In the particular case the court was asked to give the following instruction: Th expression in the policy, 'became so far intemperate as to impair his health,' does not mean habitual intemperance; but an act of intemperance producing the impairment of health is within the condition of the policy, and renders the policy null and void except as therein provided...."

In the Application for Rule to Show Cause …

Commentaries On The Laws Of England : In Four Books, William Blackstone, Thomas M. Cooley

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From Editor's Preface, v.1: "Believing that the time has come when this work would be increased in value by discarding altogether the notes of English editors, and substituting matter more especially important to American practitioners and students, the editor has prepared this edition under that conviction.... To the Review of the recent progress of the law appended to the Fourth Book, there has been also added a summary account of the British Colonial System and the System of Local Government, and the means given for comparison of these with analogous institutions in the United States."

Commentaries On The Laws Of England : In Four Books, William Blackstone, Thomas M. Cooley

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"Believing that the time has come when this work would be increased in value by discarding altogether the notes of English editors, and substituting matter more especially important to American practitioners and students, the editor has prepared this edition under that conviction.... To the Review of the recent progress of the law appended to the Fourth Book, there has been also added a summary account of the British Colonial System and the System of Local Government, and the means given for comparison of these with analogous institutions in the United States."

The British Colonial System, Thomas M. Cooley

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Regarding the subject, Professor Cooley writes: "In a note to the first book of these Commentaries (p.109), the Colonial System of Great Britain is spoken of as the grandest in extent and power that the world has ever known. A more detailed account of the system, and of the countries and places embraced within it, than was given in the place referred to, will justify the statement there made, and at the same time will give us particulars of British Colonial government in all its varieties."

Annual Announcement Of The Department Of Law In The University Of Michigan. 1884-'85., University Of Michigan Law School

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Improved and Extended Course of Instruction; The Lecture Course; Recitations and Examinatons [sic]; Constitutional History and Political Science; Requirements for Admission; Assignment of Seats; Certificates of Attendance; Requirements for Graduation; Moot and Club Courts; Prior Reading in Law; Libraries; Text Books and Books of Reference; Fees and Expenses; Students;

The Territories Of The United States, Thomas M. Cooley

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Writing to flesh out the comparisons between the United States and Great Britain following previous such chapters, Professor Cooley writes: "In the common acceptation of those terms the United States has no colonies and no foreign possessions." Professor Cooley then gives a relatively brief history of the admission of new states in constitutional philosophy and history. Later in the chapter he asserts, "Before any states can be admitted to the union, there must be a state ready to admit; and this implies that there shall be a state with a constitution and laws, so when admitted, it can proceed at …

Local Government In The United States, Thomas M. Cooley

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Professor Cooley offers the readers of the Commentaries a brief statement regarding laws of the United States in local jurisdictions: "To present completely local government as it exists in the United States would require a volume.... What we shall say, therefore, will be aimed at an explanation of certain general features, which are to be met with in all the states, and of some of the most important peculiarities."

Local Government In Great Britain, Thomas M. Cooley

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Professor Cooley's brief overview of the subject as context for his editing of the Commentaries: "As the local institutions of Great Britain have very largely been remodeled in our day, it seems desirable to give some brief account of them, as they exist at the present time..."

Harboring Conspiracy, Henry W. Rogers

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That the American people should naturally sympathize with Ireland in its demand for home rule is to be expected from the very nature of our institutions and theory of government. We in this country are of the opinion that Ireland, in demanding from England the right to regulate its domestic affairs in its own way and by its own laws, presents an honorable and a just cause, which appeals to our sympathy and sense of right. But it makes no difference bow honorable and legitimate a cause may be in itself, if it be supported by means which are not …

Popular And Legal Views Of Traffic Pooling, Thomas M. Cooley

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“Perhaps nothing in respect to the relations between the railroad companies and the public attracts more attention at the present time than the arrangements to which the name of pooling is popularly given. In railroad circles these arrangements are looked upon as necessary to prevent all railroad property becoming absolutely worthless to the stockholders, as a very large part of it is now; and those managers who are hoping to earn dividends are therefore laboring earnestly to make these arrangements effectual…. What is said will refer especially to pooling in freight traffic, but in principle it will apply to passenger …

Labor And Capital Before The Law, Thomas M. Cooley

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The chief concern of every political society is the establishment of rights and of adequate securities for their protection. In America, it has been agreed that this shall be done by the people themselves; they shall make their own laws, and choose their own agents to administer them. But the obvious difficulty of doing this directly has been recognized, and the people, after formulating the charter of government, incorporating in it such principles as they deem fundamental, content themselves with delegating all powers of ordinary legislation to representatives. Notwithstanding this delegation, much direct legislation of a very effective and important …

University Of Michigan Department Of Law: Announcement For The Year 1883-'84., University Of Michigan Law School

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I. Improved and Extended Course of Instruction; II. The Lecture Course; III. Requirements for Admission; IV. Requirements for Graduation; V. Moot and Club Courts; VI. Libraries; VII. Prior Reading in Law; VIII. Fees and Expenses;

Sarony V. Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co., Henry W. Rogers

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Commenting in the Federal Reporter on this Opinion, Professor Rogers considers at length this case bearing on definitions of copyright and artistic properties. "This was an action at law for the violation of the plaintiff's copyright of a photograph of Oscar Wilde, which the defendant had copied by the process known as chromo-lithography.... A jury was waived, and the case was argued upon questions of law only, which appear in the opinion."

"The contention of the defendant, briefly stated, is this: That there was no constitutional warrant for this act; that a photographer is not an author, and a photograph …

Detroit Savings Bank V. Zeigler, Henry W. Rogers

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"Such interchanges of assistance between officers of a bank, as temporary need may require, is fairly within the contemplation of the appointment of such an officer, and the sureties on his bond are liable for a default made while he was temporarily filling the place of another officer.

"The receiving teller of the savings department of a bank, while filling the place of the general teller, during the latter's temporary absences, embezzled moneys of the bank: Held, that the sureties on a bond, given by him for so taken."

History Of Law Class Of 1883 Of Michigan University, Charles I. York

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The origin of this book, which is a "new departure," and ever to be remembered as a production of the La.w Class of 1883 of the Michigan University, without a precedent from which to conceive its peculiarities of style, is as follows: In a convention hel1882, to put in nomination Senior Officers, the author was nominated for Class Historian, to be balloted for in about a week thereafter. During the time intervening between nomination nnd election day, the author imagined his election and began to inquire of the oflice, which led to his conception that a departure from the usual …