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Contracts -- 1961 Tennessee Survey (Ii), Paul J. Hartman
Contracts -- 1961 Tennessee Survey (Ii), Paul J. Hartman
Vanderbilt Law Review
Statutes may impose a tax upon the transaction of certain business merely for the purpose of raising revenue, and not with any view of regulating the business itself. Even though such statutes impose a penalty for failure to comply with their provisions, contracts made without paying the requisite tax or obtaining the requisite license generally are not thereby made unenforceable. Of course, the legislature may provide that the failure to comply with a revenue statute will invalidate a bargain. But where, as in the Acuff case, the purpose of the statute is the protection of the public, a bargain made …
Trade Regulation -- 1961 Tennessee Survey (Ii), Leo I. Raskind
Trade Regulation -- 1961 Tennessee Survey (Ii), Leo I. Raskind
Vanderbilt Law Review
This field of law, not previously treated independently in the annual survey, is designated as Trade Regulation or alternatively as Government or Public Control of Business. In the limit, this body of doctrine is an amalgam of tort and contract principles bearing the impress of the equity practice. These distinct principles are now embodied in both state and federal statutes as the foundations of legal control over competitive commercial conduct. Their scope extends, with different emphasis, from public utility rate regulation to a variety of aspects of market structure and conduct in the unregulated sector of the economy. The principal …
Book Reviews, Law Review Staff
Book Reviews, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Law Review
Decision at Law
By David W. Peck.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.,1961. Pp. vii, 303.
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Corporation Lawyer: Saint or Sinner? By Beryl Harold Levy.
Philadelphia and New York: Chilton Co., 1961. Pp. x, 175.
reviewer: Elliott E. Cheatham
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Criminal Psychology Edited by Richard W. Nice. New York: Philosophical Library, Inc., 1962. Pp. 284.
reviewer: J. Paschall Davis
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Symposium on the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 Edited by Ralph Slovenko. Baton Rouge: Claitor's Bookstore, 1961. Pp. xliv, 1237. $20.00.
reviewer: Robert N. Covington
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Handling Accident Cases, Vol. 3
By Albert Averbach.
Rochester: The Lawyers …