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Compensation For Victims Of Crimes, Law Review Staff
Compensation For Victims Of Crimes, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Law Review
The steadily increasing number of crimes in the United States and other Western countries brings about not only the destruction of property and the expenditure of money and effort to apprehend and punish the criminals, but also physical injury to thousands of innocent victims.' Although our society has established elaborate safe-guards for the rights of the accused criminal, the injured victim is left to shoulder the responsibility of paying his own medical bills and providing for his own living expenses while he is unable to work. Because of the extremely high cost of medical and hospital care, even a well …
Condominium: A Reconciliation Of Competing Interests?, James C. Clark
Condominium: A Reconciliation Of Competing Interests?, James C. Clark
Vanderbilt Law Review
This note will first examine some of the operative provisions of the condominium statutes. Particular emphasis will be placed upon those provisions which are basic to the creation, existence, and dissolution of this unique form of property ownership. The FHA Model Statute For Creation of Apartment Ownership will be the principal vehicle of analysis, for it is the basis of many of the state condominium statutes. State provisions which differ from the Model Act will then be examined to discover the best statutory answer to the needs of condominium housing. Finally, attention will be focused on the tax implications of …
Right Of First Refusal--Homogeniety In The Condominium, Ira E. Parker, Iii
Right Of First Refusal--Homogeniety In The Condominium, Ira E. Parker, Iii
Vanderbilt Law Review
The condominium, a newly popular but relatively old' concept in real property law, is defined basically as an apartment project involving individual fee ownership of a family unit in a multi-unit structure or structures. To complete the ownership picture, the individual fee owners are also tenants in common, with undivided interests, in the land on which the structure is built, and in other parts of the structure which are not part of an individual unit. Due to the anticipated popularity of this unconventional real estate ownership,state legislation has blossomed in the past four years, and today, all but a few …
Decedents' Estates, Trusts And Future Interest -- 1964 Tennessee Survey, Herman L. Trautman
Decedents' Estates, Trusts And Future Interest -- 1964 Tennessee Survey, Herman L. Trautman
Vanderbilt Law Review
Validity of Instrument Which Only Appoints Fiduciary--Is an instrument which makes no testamentary gift, but only designates or appoints the personal representative to administer the estate and provides certain special powers of fiduciary administration entitled to probate as a valid will? While it has been said that there need be no dispositive gift of property to entitle a testamentary writing to probate as a will,' there seems to have been no definite court decision in Tennessee so holding until the recent case of Delaney v. First Peoples Bank of Johnson City. In that case a writing properly executed with the …
Insurance -- 1964 Tennessee Survey, Robert N. Covington
Insurance -- 1964 Tennessee Survey, Robert N. Covington
Vanderbilt Law Review
In Phoenix Ins. Co. v. Brown,' the named insured in a fire policy was Walter Brown. Walter had at one time owned the property insured. He had, however, conveyed it to his divorced wife Elsie, for whom he "was looking after the property," prior to the taking out of this policy. It was not alleged that the defendant's agent (who had previously written other policies on the property in Walter's name at the time Walter was the title-holder) knew of the conveyance to Elsie. After total destruction by fire the defendant refused to pay on the grounds of the lack …