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May An Action For Damages Be Brought In A State Court By A Seaman Injured In The Course Of His Duty, Or By His Personal Representatives In Case Of His Death, Under Section Thirty-Three Of The Jones Act?, Clifford M. Langhorne

Washington Law Review

Section 33 of the Jones Act, amending Section 20 of the Seamen's Act of 1915,2 gives to a seaman injured in the course of his duty, or his personal representatives in case of his death, the right to proceed at his election under the provisions of the Employers' Liability Act. The last sentence of the Jones Act, it will be noticed, reads as follows: "Jurisdiction in such actions shall be under the court of the district in which the defendant employer resides or in which his principal office is located." The question is, what is the meaning of the words …

Recent Cases, W. B. W.

Washington Law Review

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The Judicial Council Movement, Charles H. Paul

Washington Law Review

Out of the chaos of ill conceived reform legislation, piecemeal attempts at judicial improvement, and general failure to achieve concrete results in remedying the defects in our legal procedure, there has evolved a nation wide movement for the formation of Judicial Councils to aid in solving our procedural problems. Knowledge of this movement is important to Washington lawyers because the Washington State Bar Association at its convention in August recommended the creation of a Judicial Council for Washington, and a special committee of the bar will be appointed to secure the passage of a Judicial Council act at the next …

The Right Of A Married Woman To Bring An Action For Damages For Personal Injuries Where The Husband Has Refused To Join, Edward Starin

Washington Law Review

One of the interesting developments in the law of community property has been the rule which declares that a married woman while living with her husband has no right to prosecute an action for personal injuries caused by the negligence of a third person without procuring her husband to join as a party plaintiff in the action. While, under the statute, the common law disabilities of a married woman are completely removed and while under the same statute the wife has the same right to appeal to the courts for redress for any unjust usurpation of her natural or property …

A Selection Of Cases Under The Interstate Commerce Act, By Felix Frankfurter (1922), C. R. Atkinson

Washington Law Review

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May A Man Provide In His Will That His Wife Shall Not Take Under It Unless She Shall Survive Him For A Period Of Forty-Eight Hours?, Stephen Darden Brown

Washington Law Review

The advantages are apparent that might be gained by a man including in his will the provision that his wife should not take under it unless she should survive him for a period of, say, forty-eight hours. As an example, there is the famous French case of Fair v. Vanderbilt, in which both spouses were killed, the wife surviving the husband fifty-nine seconds, and of which a learned author once remarked, "It was the first time in history that a man and his wife were ever killed while riding together." No provision had been made in contemplation of either co-accidental …

Dual Sovereignty And The Supreme Court, Overton G. Ellis

Washington Law Review

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Rights And Estates Of Vendor And Vendee Under An Executory Contract For The Sale Of Real Property, P. John Lichty

Washington Law Review

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The Assignment Of Merchants' Book Accounts As Security, Robert B. Porterfield

Washington Law Review

Repudiating the rule commonly attributed to the famous case of Dearie v. Hall, a rule which for at least 70 years had been understood to be the rule of the Federal courts, the United States Supreme court decided in 1924 that as between successive assignees of the same chose in action, mere priority of notice did not give priority of right.

The Administration Of The Property Of A Deceased Partner, Burton J. Wheelon

Washington Law Review

The descent of property to heirs or devisees is a right conferred by society and the statutes governing administration and distribution must, as a general rule, be strictly complied with. The case of the administration of a deceased member of a partnership, however, deals with property which does not belong to the deceased alone, but in which the surviving partners have a common and often equal or superior interest. Furthermore, the obligations incurred by the firm, through its members, bind the members jointly, it being remembered that a partnership is not an entity in the eyes of the law, but …

The Admissibility Of Testimony Concernng Transactions With Decedents, Elwood Hutcheson

Washington Law Review

It is the purpose of this article to provide a means of ready reference to all of the Washington cases, up to and including the 133rd Washington, which have construed, applied or discussed the statute of this state which excludes testimony in certain cases by interested parties as to transactions with persons since deceased.

The Federal Trade Commission, By Gerard C. Henderson (1924), K. E. Leib

Washington Law Review

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Cases On The Law Of Public Service, Including The Law Peculiar To Common Carriers And Innkeepers, By Charles K. Burdick, 2d Ed., Harvey Lantz

Washington Law Review

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Brief-Making And The Use Of Law Books, By Roger W. Conley, 4th Ed., Arthur Beardsley

Washington Law Review

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Dumpor's Case: Its Status, Robert S. Macfarlane

Washington Law Review

Dumpor's Case holds, according to the syllabus in Sir Edward Coke's Reports (4 Coke 119b) that "a condition in a lease that the lessee or his assigns shall not alien without the special license of the lessor, is determined by an alienation by licence, and no subsequent alienation is a breach of condition, nor does it give a right of entry to the lessor." The same case more properly titled "Dumpor v Symms" (Coke) or "Dumper v Syms" is reported by Sir George Croke (Croke's Eliz. 815) The head note there reads: "On a proviso that a lessee and his …

Principles Of Corporation Law, By William W. Cook (1925), Ivan W. Goodner

Washington Law Review

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The Washington Statute On Nuncupative Wills, Edward Starin

Washington Law Review

In the old days of our common law, when the art of writing was limited to but a comparative few, the idea of a nuncupative or oral will gained a fairly firm footing. But with the spread of the ability to write, such wills came to be looked upon with disfavor owing to the opportunities presented for fraud and perjury Hence as early as the reign of Henry VIII. important restrictions were imposed on the right and power to make a nuncupative will. Contemporary legal writers expressed the idea that such a will could be made only when the testator …

Recent Cases, J. W.

Washington Law Review

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Book Review, Arthur Beardsley

Book Reviews

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The Law School Library—A Library Of Research For Lawyer, Layman, And Legislator, Arthur S. Beardsley

Articles

We will probably agree that the college or university as a seat of learning must develop and maintain library facilities commensurate with the standing before the world which the institution's progress has earned. The library, and of course we include the law school library, is one of the indices of an educational institution's efficiency, and as such, we expect it to grow and expand by adding to the richness of its collections, material of ever increasing importance and usefulness. We expect the college library to take the lead in gathering for future reference the materials valuable for research which, on …

Washington's First Constitution, 1878, And Proceedings Of The Convention

Selected Books and Theses

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The Constitutions Of The Northwest States, John D. Hicks

Selected Books and Theses

Covers subjects such as the statehood movement; constitutional conventions; the organization of state governments; education and state lands; banks, corporations, and trusts; labor and social legislation; taxation; suffrage and other miscellaneous topics; and admission to the Union. Includes a bibliography. A study in partial fulfillment for a degree of doctor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin (1916) and reprinted in University Studies, January-April 1923.

The Constitution Of The State And Its Effects Upon Public Interests, Theodore L. Stiles

Selected Articles on Washington State Constitution History

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The Origin Of The Constitution Of The State Of Washington, Lebbeus J. Knapp

Selected Articles on Washington State Constitution History

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The Federal And State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, And Other Organic Laws Of The States, Territories, And Colonies Now Or Heretofore The United States Of America

Selected Books and Theses

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[All Of The State Officers Elect Will Assume Their Functions Following The Proclamation Of The President That The Washington Constitution Complies With The Enabling Act] (Oct. 12, 1889)

Newspapers

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Constitution Makers [Propositions And Motions] (July 19, 1889)

Newspapers

Lists propositions and motions that were read for the first and second times and referred to committee. Describes the judicial system as being modeled on California's.

A Constitution Adapted To The Coming State: Suggestions By Hon. W. Lair Hill: Main Features Considered In Light Of Modern Experience: Outline And Comment Together, 1889, William Lair Hill

Selected Books and Theses

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Treaty With The Quinaielt, Etc., 1855 (Treaty Of Olympia)

Treaties with Tribes in Washington State

Articles of agreement and convention made and concluded by and between Isaac I. Stevens, governor and superintendent of Indian of the Territory of Washington, on the part of the United States, and the undersigned chiefs, headmen, and delegates of the different tribes and bands of the Qui-nai-elt and Quil-leh-ute Indians on the part of said tribes and bands, and duly authorized thereto by them.

ARTICLE 3. The right of taking fish at all usual and accustomed ground stations is secured to said Indians in common with all citizens of the Territory, and of erecting temporary houses for the purpose of …

Treaty With The Yakima, 1855

Treaties with Tribes in Washington State

ARTICLE 3 . And provided, That, if necessary for the public convenience, roads may be run through the said reservation; and on the other hand, the right of way, with free access from the same to the nearest public highway, is secured to them; as also the right, in common with citizens of the United States, to travel upon all public highways.

The exclusive right of taking fish in all the streams, where running through or bordering said reservation, is further secured to said confederated tribes and bands of Indians, as also the right of taking fish at all …