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Bowen: John Adams And The American Revolution, Michigan Law Review Dec 1950

Bowen: John Adams And The American Revolution, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of JOHN ADAMS AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. By Catherine Drinker Bowen.


Powell: Real Property, Allan F. Smith Dec 1950

Powell: Real Property, Allan F. Smith

Michigan Law Review

A Review of REAL PROPERTY. Vol. 1. By Richard R. Powell.


De Toledano And Lasky: Seeds Of Treason, Michigan Law Review Jun 1950

De Toledano And Lasky: Seeds Of Treason, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of SEEDS OF TREASON. By Ralph de Toledano and Victor Lasky.


Origin And Development Of The Directed Verdict, William Wirt Blume Mar 1950

Origin And Development Of The Directed Verdict, William Wirt Blume

Michigan Law Review

Recent decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States have aroused a new interest in the familiar motion for a directed verdict. In this discussion the writer will undertake a brief examination of the antecedents of the motion, and then will trace its short but significant history.


The Privy Council And Private Law In The Tudor And Stuart Period: Ii, John P. Dawson Mar 1950

The Privy Council And Private Law In The Tudor And Stuart Period: Ii, John P. Dawson

Michigan Law Review

In a previous instalment an attempt was made to describe the main subjects of private litigation dealt with by the English Privy Council under the Tudors and early Stuarts. It was suggested that the subjects were most heterogeneous and that the total volume of such litigation was large. In the present instalment will be discussed, first, the methods used to reduce the volume of private litigation by direct and indirect means; then the powers of coercion possessed by the Privy Council; and finally, its relations to the ordinary courts.


The Privy Council And Private Law In The Tudor And Stuart Periods: I, John P. Dawson Feb 1950

The Privy Council And Private Law In The Tudor And Stuart Periods: I, John P. Dawson

Michigan Law Review

It has been often said that the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in England were pre-eminently the age of conciliar government. The activities of the Tudor Privy Council extended into every phase of national life and were responsible, more than any other single factor, for the effective organization of an English national state. These activities continued under the first two Stuarts, with no break in institutional development, though they widened the gulf between Crown and people and hastened a revolution.


Wormser: The Law, Michigan Law Review Feb 1950

Wormser: The Law, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

a Review of THE LAW By Rene A. Wormser.


Keeney: Judgment By Peers, Michigan Law Review Jan 1950

Keeney: Judgment By Peers, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of JUDGMENT BY PEERS. By Barnaby C. Keeney.