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Common Sense About The Age Of Statutes, Steve Macisaac
Common Sense About The Age Of Statutes, Steve Macisaac
Michigan Law Review
A Review of A Common Law for the Age of Statutes by Guido Calabresi
Domestic Relations - Statutory Abolition Of Certain Causes Of Action, George A. Rinker S.Ed.
Domestic Relations - Statutory Abolition Of Certain Causes Of Action, George A. Rinker S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
ln response to widespread and vigorous criticism of the abuses practiced through the use of the action at law for breach of promise to marry, and to a lesser extent, the actions for alienation of affections, criminal conversation, and seduction, several states enacted legislation designed to eliminate the evils complained of by abolishing some or all of those causes of action. The purpose of the present discussion is to analyze and compare the various statutes, and to indicate how they have fared in the courts; in short, to survey the whole reform program as it stands twelve years after the …