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Roman Law And Mohammedan Jurisprudence, Part 3, Theodore P. Ion Mar 1908

Roman Law And Mohammedan Jurisprudence, Part 3, Theodore P. Ion

Michigan Law Review

After having, in a summary manner, reviewed the historical connection existing between the Roman and Mohammedan laws, and examined the social condition of their respective people, we now come to our last theme, namely, the comparison of their laws proper, which will show their similarity in more than one point. This examination-which will be preceded by an explanation of jurisprudence in both systems and an attempt to show the likeness of their respective jurisconsults-will be limited to certain subjects of personal law and contracts, and concluded with a few observations on judicial organization.

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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Mar 1908

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

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Bankruptcy--Assignment--Validity--Possession of Res.; Carriers--Assaults by Employees on Passengers; Constitutional Law--Judicial Powers--Legislative Action of City Council Not Enjoined; Constitutional Law--Privileges and Immunities; Constitutional Law--Taxation of Imports; Contracts--Accord and Satisfaction--Consideration; Corporations--Liability of Bondholders on "Bonus Stock"; Covenants--Creation by Acceptance of Deed Poll; Criminal Law--Habeas Corpus--Want of Jurisdiction; Damages--For Wrongful Cutting of Timber--Value of the Manufactured Lumber; Evidence--Admissions of a Tenant in Common; Evidence--Effect of Plaintiff's Refusal to Submit to Physical Examination; Equity--Laches; foreign Corporations--What Constitutes "doing Business" in the State--Restrictions on State in Case of Interstate Commerce; Injunction--Suspension of Operative Force Pending Appeal; Judgment--conclusiveness--Matters Concluded; Judgment--foreign Judgment--Enforcement; Landlord and Tenant--Trade Fixtures--Right of …

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May Congress Levy Money Exactions, Designated "Taxes," Solely For The Purpose Of Destruction?, John Barker Waite Feb 1908

May Congress Levy Money Exactions, Designated "Taxes," Solely For The Purpose Of Destruction?, John Barker Waite

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The questions of taxation have furnished a cause of warfare, armed or wordy, since the meaning of government has been known. The possibility of our Constitution was due, superficially, to the imposition of a tax; its adoption, in great measure, to the absence of a tax, to the lack of a taxing power in the Confederation. Since the adoption of the Constitution with its grant of a taxing power, much of our legislative disagreement has centered on the interpretation of that grant. The case of McCray v. United States, opens up a comparatively untrammeled field of dispute. The basis of …

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Recent Legal Literature, Victor H. Lane, Joseph H. Drake Feb 1908

Recent Legal Literature, Victor H. Lane, Joseph H. Drake

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Van Dyne: a Treatise on the Law of Naturalization of the United States; Various: Select Essays in Anglo-american Legal History;

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The Work Of The Second Hague Conference, W. F. Dodd Feb 1908

The Work Of The Second Hague Conference, W. F. Dodd

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The second Hague Conference came to an end on October 18, 1907, after sitting for more than four months. In the popular mind the Conference has been dismissed as a failure. No sensational actions were taken, and the quiet and solid work of a group of international lawyers has had little attraction for the general public. It is, however, worth while to make a plain statement of what the Conference did and did not accomplish. The first Hague Conference in 1899 was essentially a peace conference. The question of partial disarmament was put at the head of the Russian program …

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Is A Provision For The Initiative And Referendum Inconsistent With The Constitution Of The United States?, W. A. Coutts Feb 1908

Is A Provision For The Initiative And Referendum Inconsistent With The Constitution Of The United States?, W. A. Coutts

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We are told today that the Constitution of the United States forbids the adoption of the Initiative and the Referendum, as these involve such purely democratic principles as to be inconsistent with the republican form of government guaranteed by the fourth section of the fourth article of the Federal Constitution. The special interests that are opposed to the Initiative tell us that we must find some other cure for the evils at which it aims; that the Initiative is a purely democratic principle and, as such, it is forbidden by the fourth section of the fourth article of the Federal …

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Note And Comment, Henry M. Bates, Harry B. Hutchins, Frank B. Fox, John C. Howell, Clyde A. Dewitt Feb 1908

Note And Comment, Henry M. Bates, Harry B. Hutchins, Frank B. Fox, John C. Howell, Clyde A. Dewitt

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The Proposed Code of Legal Ethics for the American Bar Association; The Power of a court of Equity to Order the Exhumation of a Dead Body for Examination in Aid of the Defense of a Civil Action at Law; The Consolidation of Municipal Corporations and the Federal Constitution; The Scalper in Law and in Equity; The Basis of Equitable Jurisdiction in Cases of Fraud;

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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Feb 1908

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

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Attachment--Property Subject to--Goods Conditionally Sold; Bankruptcy--Receiver and Manager--Insufficient Estate--Priorities; Bankruptcy--Solicitor and Client--Account Stated Bankruptcy of Client--Trustee's Right to Go Behind Stated Account, and Require Details; Banks and Banking--Receivers in Proceedings for Dissolution--Sufficiency of Bill; Bills and Notes--Foreign Bill of Exchange--Failure to Protest; Constitutional law--Equal Protection of the Law--Regulation of Common Carrier; Contracts--Mutuality of Obligation; Corporations--Agreement to Take Shares of Stock; Damages--Mental Suffering--Wanton Wrong; Deeds--Date--Presumption as to Time of Delivery; Deeds--Description--Statement of Quantity Controlling; Elections--Certificates of Nomination--Time of Filing--Accident and Mistake Causing Delay; Evidence--Admissibility of Conversation by Telephone; Evidence--Proof of Value--An Exception to the Hearsay Rule; Husband and Wife--Estate by Entirety--application …

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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jan 1908

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

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Acknowledgement--Impeachment--Examination of Married Woman; Bankruptcy--Discharge--Libel; Bankruptcy--Selection of Trustee--Right of Creditors to Elect; Bills and Notes--Genuine Draft with Forged Bill of Lading; Bills and Notes--Release of Indorsers; Carriers--Refulsal to Give Transer--Passenger's Motive in Requesting; Covenants--covenant Against Incumbrances--Runs with the Land; Deeds--Parties--One Not Names as Grantor Signing; Elections--Corrupt Practices Act--who is a Candidate; elections--voting Machines--Statute Unconstitutional; Eminent Domain--Taking of railroad Right of Way for Street Purposes--Measure of Damages; Equity--maxims--application in Suit for Divorce on Statutory Grounds; Evidence--Opinion as to One's Physical Condition--Expert Testimony; Foreign Corporations--Right to do business in State can Become Vested; Foreign Corporations--Service of Process on--What Constitutes "Doing Business"; Foreign …

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Notice To, Or Knowledge Of, An Agent, Floyd R. Mechem Jan 1908

Notice To, Or Knowledge Of, An Agent, Floyd R. Mechem

Michigan Law Review

In general-the question frequently arises whether the principal may be affected not only by the agent's acts and contracts, but also by the knowledge which he may possess, or the notice which may come to him, respecting the subject matter of the agency, and which would have affected the principal had it come to him while he was acting in person. The question has arisen in a great variety of forms, but the answer has been substantially uniform, and is commonly found stated in the language of the following section. Many reasons have been assigned, but they are all predicated …

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Roman Law And Mohammedan Jurisprudence, Part 2, Theodore P. Ion Jan 1908

Roman Law And Mohammedan Jurisprudence, Part 2, Theodore P. Ion

Michigan Law Review

In examining the early life of the Romans and comparing it with the social condition of the people of the Arabian peninsula in the pre-Islamic times, who are rightly considered the best type of the race, amongst those who embraced the faith of Mohammed, we are immediately struck with the great similarity that existed between the Roman gens; or the Greek ϒένος; and the Arabian Akila, though it cannot thereby be concluded that this likeness necessarily denotes a descent from the same stock. A distinguished French orientalist, in observing this striking similarity, ventured to conjecture that both …

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Historical Lights From Judicial Decisions, Edward Cahill Jan 1908

Historical Lights From Judicial Decisions, Edward Cahill

Michigan Law Review

The history of a nation is to be looked for in a great variety of places. Its traditions, its public and private records, its religious and social orders, its literature and its laws, each yield copious results to the researches of the historian. The social, religious and economic conditions of a nation at any period of its history, the state of the· domestic relations, the rights of property and of succession, the growth of personal liberty, all these and many more find their accurate expression sooner or later, in the written or unwritten laws of the land. And the movement …

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Are Too Many Executive Officers Elective?, Bradley M. Thompson Jan 1908

Are Too Many Executive Officers Elective?, Bradley M. Thompson

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Michigan manage and conduct state affairs. No one would ship a dead dog over that line without having taken the precaution to skin the animal and save his hide. Listen to the conclusion of the whole matter. Give the people an opportunity to govern the state. Amend the constitution and provide for the election of just two state executive officers, a governor and a lieutenant governor. Give the governor power to appoint by and with the advice and consent of the senate, the other state officers now elected, with power to remove at will such officers to constitute his counsel …

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Note And Comment, Harry B. Hutchins, Ross F. Moore, John E. Winner Jan 1908

Note And Comment, Harry B. Hutchins, Ross F. Moore, John E. Winner

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The International Law Association and Its Last Meeting; The Extent to Which the Action of Medical Boards may be Controlled By Mandamus; The Effect Upon An Illegal marriage of Cohabitiation After the Removal of the Impediment;

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Recent Legal Literature, Victor H. Lane, Victor H. Lane, Horace Lafayette Wilgus Jan 1908

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

Michigan Law Review

McKelvey: Handbook of the Law of Evidence (2nd ed., rev.); Wigmore: A Supplement to a Treatise on the System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law, Containing the Statues and Judicial Decisions. 1904-1907.; Wood: Modern Business Corporations, including the organization and management of private corporations, with financial principles and practices.;

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The Constitution Of Oklahoma, John A. Fairlie Dec 1907

The Constitution Of Oklahoma, John A. Fairlie

Michigan Law Review

The constitution of the latest state to be admitted to the Federal Union contains many interesting features, some significant of recent tendencies in state government, and others distinctly novel, which suggest queries as to the probable trend of future development. Public attention has already been attracted to some of the most striking provisions; and a more careful analysis of the constitution as a whole should be of value to those concerned in the problems of American government. At the outset, one familiar with the constitution of the older states will be struck by the length of the Oklahoma document. It …

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Note And Comment, Harry B. Hutchins, Frank B. Fox, Frank P. Helsell, Burns A. Henry, Clyde Dewitt Dec 1907

Note And Comment, Harry B. Hutchins, Frank B. Fox, Frank P. Helsell, Burns A. Henry, Clyde Dewitt

Michigan Law Review

Liability of Carriers for Injuries Arising from Failure to Have Waiting Rooms Properly Heated; Special Assessments and Railroad Rights of Way; State and Federal Regulation Rates; Duty Toward Trespassing Children Where a Dangerous Article is Left in the Street; Collateral Attack on Injunctional Orders;

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The Position Of The Law Of Torts In The Spanish System, Clyde Alton Dewitt Dec 1907

The Position Of The Law Of Torts In The Spanish System, Clyde Alton Dewitt

Michigan Law Review

The penal and civil codes of Spain, together with its procedural codes, its commercial and notarial codes, and its mortgage law combine to form as highly developed a system of jurisprudence as that enjoyed by any of the civilized nations of today. Under it, the people of our insular possessions have carried on an extensive domestic and foreign commerce, and have developed an organized social and political life. Our government has adopted the commendable policy of interfering as little as possible with the local laws and institutions of the Philippines and Porto Rico, it being evident that any extensive attempt …

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American Law School Degrees, James Parker Hall Dec 1907

American Law School Degrees, James Parker Hall

Michigan Law Review

Last August, at the annual meeting of the American Bar Association held at Portland, Maine, the Committee on Legal Education made a report proposing that the Association should recommend to the various state legislatures the adoption of certain rules suggested by the committee to secure uniformity in law degrees. These rules provided that an L.B. should be conferred by law schools maintaining a two years course; an LL. B. for three years of legal study; an LL. M. for four years, of which one should be postgraduate; and a D. C. L. or J. D. for five years, of which …

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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Dec 1907

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Agency--Evidence of Performance--right to Compensation--Acting for both Parties; Assignment for Benefit of Creditors--Marshaling Assets; Bonds--Bona Fide Purchasers--Mandamus--Redemption of Bonds; Carriers--may, as Lessors, Contract for Total Exemption from Liability for Negligence; Constitutional law--Jurisdiction of Federal Courts to Review Contempt Proceedings in State Court; Contracts--Accord and Satisfaction--Consideration; Criminal Law--Venue--Statutes--Validity; Damages--Conversion; Deeds--Construction--Intent of Parties; Deeds--Seal Essential; Dower--rights of Widow Pending Assignment--Possession of Lands; Eminent domain--Interurban Railways; Evidence--Presumption as to Foreign Law; Fee Simple Estate--Restraints on Alienation; Fraudulent Conveyances--Sales in Bulk--Validity as Between the Parties--Lien for Price; Husband and Wife--Separation Agreements--Validity; Insurance--Fire--Concurrent Insurance; Insurance--Mutual Benefit--Unreasonable Change of By-Laws; Judgment--Res Judicata; Master and Servant--Liability of …

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Recent Legal Literature, Henry M. Bates, Henry M. Bates, Evans Holbrook Dec 1907

Recent Legal Literature, Henry M. Bates, Henry M. Bates, Evans Holbrook

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Calvert: Regulation of Commerce, Under the Federal Constitution; Prentice: The Federal Power over Carriers and Corporations; McCall: the Clerk's Assistant, containing a large variety of legal forms and instruments adapted not only to county and town officers, but to the wants of professional and business men throughout the United States;

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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Nov 1907

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

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Adoption--Who is a "Child"; Agency--Ratification--Act Must Have Been Done as Agent--Trusts--Pretended Agent as Constructive Trustee; Bankruptcy--Assets--Commissions of Agent on Policies Written Prior to Adjudication; Bankruptcy--Property Held Under conditional Sale--Right to Reclaim; Banks and Banking--Usury Laws--Notes Purchased in Good Raith--Power of Congress to Regulate National Banks; Bills and Notes--Execution in Blank--Statutory Provisions; Constitutional Law--Inheritance Tax--due Process of Law; Contracts--Abandonment--Recovery;

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Recent Legal Literature, Charles A. Kent, Joseph H. Drake Nov 1907

Recent Legal Literature, Charles A. Kent, Joseph H. Drake

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Brown: The Austinian Theory of Law; Schuster: the Principles of German Civil Law

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Case Of The Monopolies Some Of Its Results And Suggestions, Sydney T. Miller Nov 1907

Case Of The Monopolies Some Of Its Results And Suggestions, Sydney T. Miller

Michigan Law Review

Apparently the monopolistic idea is as old as the history of man. That great and good man, Job, may be counted as the earliest recorded "trust-buster," if we read between the lines of his story, and Solomon said, "He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him; but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it." Doubtless, by exhaustive search, we could find some record of attempts to monopolize during each century from Biblical days to the time of printing, and as surely there must have been a countermovement. But not until the last five hundred years …

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Federal Treaties And State Laws, Charles Noble Gregory Nov 1907

Federal Treaties And State Laws, Charles Noble Gregory

Michigan Law Review

The rights of foreigners, in case of conflict between federal treaties with their several countries and laws enacted by the states, have been recently much considered. Such questions are undoubtedly to be solved by constitutional law under our frame of government, but they so directly affect our international obligations and relations that they are habitually treated as proper topics to be discussed in our best works on International Law.

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Roman Law And Mohammedan Jurisprudence (Part 1), Theodore P. Ion Nov 1907

Roman Law And Mohammedan Jurisprudence (Part 1), Theodore P. Ion

Michigan Law Review

A comparison of the Roman law with Mohammedan jurisprudence, is a task not easy to accomplish, nor can an essay on that theme be made comprehensive enough to embrace all the ramifications of both legal systems. The object, therefore, of the present article, is to make only a cursory comparison of them; and to demonstrate their similarity in more than one point, showing the close analogy existing between them, and the influence that the laws of Rome exercised in the development of the Islamic legislation. As in the early days of Rome, law and religion had a close connection with …

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Note And Comment, Henry M. Bates, Robert M. See, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Clyde A. Dewitt Nov 1907

Note And Comment, Henry M. Bates, Robert M. See, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Clyde A. Dewitt

Michigan Law Review

Courts--Jurisdiction of Circuit Court--Enjoining Writ of Error; Criminal Law--Arraignment--Waiver; Damages--Personal Injuries--Expense of Nursing; Deeds--Boundaries--Navigable Waters; Deeds--Variance Between Granting Clause and Habendum--Construction; Eminent Domain--Use of Urban Street Car Lines by Interurban Cars; Evidence--Admissibility of Statement of One Partner to a Commercial Agency as to Asset and Liabilities; Evidence--Admission of a Carbon Copy of a Contract as a Duplicate Original; Federal Courts--jurisdiction--Action Against State Officers; Foreign Corporations--Liability to be Sued; Homicide--Self-Defense--Provoking Difficulty; Insurance--Certificate Silent as to Suicide; Joint Stock Associations--have they at Common law Powers and Privileges of a Corporation not Possessed by Individuals or Partnerships?; Municipal corporations--Protecting Against Fraud by Ordinance--Sale …

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A Written Constitution In Some Of Its Historical Aspects, Andrew C. Mclaughlin Jun 1907

A Written Constitution In Some Of Its Historical Aspects, Andrew C. Mclaughlin

Michigan Law Review

That an institution of government, like an institution or practice of society, is a growth and not a creation is now an accepted proposition. No one seeks to argue for it; no one endeavors to deny it. The introduction of this idea into our political thinking strongly influenced our methods and our ideas. In no field of study has the evolutionary idea shown itself more strongly than among workers in history and political science. And yet occasionally one is surprised by seeing how recently this idea has manifested itself in the examination of some historical problems. Until a short time …

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The Beveridge Child Labor Bill And The United States As Parens Patriae, Andrew Alexander Bruce Jun 1907

The Beveridge Child Labor Bill And The United States As Parens Patriae, Andrew Alexander Bruce

Michigan Law Review

Although strenuous opposition has been encountered in the courts whenever an attempt has been made by the legislatures to interfere with the contractual freedom of adults in matters pertaining to the contract of employment, the right of interference in the case of children has been always conceded. From an early time minors have been placed under contractual disability by the law and have been looked upon as wards of the State. Having denied to them a full measure of contractual freedom, the State can hardly deny an equivalent protection; in fact the rule of contractual disability is in a large …

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Note And Comment, Harry B. Hutchins, Edwin C. Goddard Jun 1907

Note And Comment, Harry B. Hutchins, Edwin C. Goddard

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The Liability of Charitable Corporations for the Torts of Their Servants; the Powers of General and Special Agents; Municipal Ordinances Licensing Trades and Occupations; "Sic Utere Tuo Ut Alienum Non Laedas"; Interference with the Formation of Contracts; The Right of Directors to Use Corporate Funds in Getting Proxies From the Stockholders; Sales Void for Uncertainty and Lack of Mutuality; The Negotiable Instruments Law as Affecting the Discharge of Accommodation Maker and Surety by Extension of Time of Payment

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