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Books Received, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Law Review

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Commercial Law, Cases on

By Robert Braucher

Brooklyn: The Foundation Press, Inc., 1951. Pp. 709. $8.00

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Commercial Transactions, Cases and Materials, Temporary Edition

By Arthur E. Sutherland, Jr. and Bertram F. Willcox

Brooklyn: The Foundation Press, Inc., 1951. Pp. 1251. $9.50

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Conflict of Laws, Cases and Materials, Third Edition

By Elliott E.Cheatham, Herbert F. Goodrich, Erwin N. Griswold and Willis L. M.Reese

Brooklyn: The Foundation Press, Inc., 1951. Pp. 960. $9.00

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Constitution of Powers in a Secular Statte, A.

By Edward S. Corwin

Charlottesville: The Michie Co., 1951. Pp. 126

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Evidence, Cases …

Partnerships-Dissolution-Sufficiency Of Notice To Prior Creditors, Paul M.D. Harrison S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff brought suit on account for merchandise sold and delivered, alleging that the defendants were liable as partners. The defendants admitted that they had dealt with the plaintiff while they were a partnership, but averred that a corporation was formed which took over the partnership and that the merchandise in question had been purchased by the corporation. The trial judge instructed the jury that plaintiff must have notice or knowledge of the dissolution of the partnership to relieve defendants of personal liability, and that mere notice of the formation of the corporation was immaterial. Held, judgment for plaintiff affirmed. …

Fiduciary Duty Owed Creditors By Director Of Insolvent Corporation

Indiana Law Journal

Recent Cases: Corporations

Corporations-Effect Of Merger Upon Apparent Rights Of Stockholders Under Preferred Stock Contracts, Charles M. Soller S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

It is the purpose of this comment to examine the effect of merger upon some of the provisions of the preferred stock contract.

Business Organizations, Ben F. Small Jr.

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Service Of Process On Foreign Corporations Not Admitted To Do Business In The State

Indiana Law Journal

Legislative Comment

What Constitutes Doing Business By A Foreign Corporation, William J. Kinnally

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Uniform Corporation Laws Through Interstate Compacts And Federal Legislation, Robert S. Stevens

Michigan Law Review

It is the purpose of the present article to suggest that another means of accomplishing the end exists in the possibility of an interstate compact for uniform corporate legislation, coupled with supplementary federal legislation appropriate to make the interstate compact effective.

Monopolies--Producers' Coal Sales Agency And The Sherman Act, Donald F. Black

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Foreign Corporations-Jurisdiction Resulting From Business Done Within State

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Immunity Of Foreign States When Engaged In Commercial Enterprises: A Proposed Solution, John G. Hervey

Michigan Law Review

Do governments which engage in commercial undertakings assume the civil and criminal liabilities imposed upon private corporations engaged in similar enterprises, or do governments confer sovereign privileges upon their undertakings? Can governments engage in commercial enterprises and thereby escape the liabilities imposed upon private individuals? More particularly, are foreign governments engaged in such undertakings exempt from process in the American courts?

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.

Liabilities Of Organizers, Members And Officers Of A Private Corporation In Indiana (Pt. 2), Robert W. Miller

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.

Announcements: A New Corporation Act, Paul V. Mcnutt

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews

Michigan Law Review

A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

No abstract provided.

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Admiralty - Workmen's Compensation - Is a Hydroplane a Vessel? - Claimant was employed in the care and management of a hydroplane which was moored in navigable waters. The hydroplane began to drag anchor and drift toward the beach, where it was in danger of being wrecked. Claimant waded into the water and was struck by the propeller. Held, claimant is not entitled to compensation under the Workmen's Compensation Law, since a hydroplane while on navigable waters is a vessel, and therefore the jurisdiction of the admiralty excludes that of the State Industrial Commission. Reinhardt v. Newport Flying Service Corp. …

Code Civil Suisse Y Compris Le Code Fédéral Des Obligations, Virgile Rossel

Civil Codes (1800-1923)

Édition annotée renfermant en outre les complémentaires (loi féd. du 25 Juin 1891, conventions internationales, ordonnances et arrêtés des autorités fédérales, etc.), ainsi que des notes explicatives, de la jurisprudence, la conférence des articles, des renvois aux textes correspondants des Codes français et allemands, aux messages du Conseil fédéral, a l"Expose des motifs et au Bulletin sténographique des Chambres fédérales, etc.

3a. édition, revue et considérablement augmentée.

Public Utility Valuation - Cost Of Reproduction Theory And The World War, Edwin C. Goddard

Articles

The very grave objections to the cost-of-reproduction theory of valuation of public utilities was pointed out at large in 15 MICH. L. REV. 205. The violent price changes following the World War have greatly increased the weight of these objections to calling anything a base which rests on such uncertainties and fluctuations as cost-of-reproduction. A base should be stable, but this has the stability Of a flying machine. There had been a rising curve of costs from 1893 to 1916, but since that date the rise has been almost vertical. The public utilities by- the thousands desire to take advantage …

Interstate Commerce Commission - Intrastate Rates, Edwin C. Goddard

Articles

The marvelous possibilities for collision between State and Nation involved in our dual form of government are nowhere better or more often exhibited than in commerce regulation. We have long been learning the definition of the commerce which the constitution gives Congress power to regulate. It is only recently that we are finding how this power reaches over into purely intrastate business done by a carrier also engaged in interstate commerce. That nearly all rail carriers are now engaged in such business, even when their lines are wholly intrastate, has been often illustrated under the Second Employer's Liability Act. In …

Código De Comercio, Panamá

Mario Diaz Cruz Library

Edición oficial.

At head of title: República de Panamá.

State Regulations Affecting Interstate Commerce, Horace Lafayette Wilgus

Articles

The line between regulations of intrastate and interstate commerce is difficult to draw and hard to maintain. This is well illustrated in the recent case of St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company v. Arkansas, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States April 4, 1910, Advance Sheets, May I, 1910, p. 476, 30 Sup.Ct. 476.

What Is Interstate Commerce?, Horace Lafayette Wilgus

Articles

In the case of International Text-book Company v. Pigg, Advance Sheets May 1, 1910 (30 Sup. Ct. 481) the Supreme Court of the United States, decided April 4, 1910, that a "corporation engaged in imparting instruction by correspondence, whose business involves the solicitation of students in other states by local agents, who are to collect and forward to the home office the tuition fees, and the systematic intercourse between the corporation and its scholars and agents, wherever situated, and the transportation of the needful books, apparatus, and papers," is engaged in interstate commerce, and a state statute which makes the …

Elements Of The Law Of Partnership, Floyd R. Mechem

Books

Several years ago the writer printed for the use of his class a brief course of lectures on Partnership. A wider demand for them having sprung up, they have been revised and reprinted in the hope that they may be useful to students elsewhere. They pretend to be nothing more than the mere elements of the subject, and the endeavor has been to keep them in small compass. The citation of authorities has been purposely limited to the leading and most readily accessible cases, and those cited have been selected rather as illustrations of the text than as authorities for …