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Constitutional Law-Due Process-Punishment For Acts Done Without Consciousness Of Wrongdoing, Benjamin M. Quigg, Jr. S.Ed. Jun 1944

Constitutional Law-Due Process-Punishment For Acts Done Without Consciousness Of Wrongdoing, Benjamin M. Quigg, Jr. S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

In the recent case of United States v. Dotterweich the United States Supreme Court (four justices dissenting) held the president of a drug jobbing company personally liable for violation of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act on informations charging misbranding and adulteration of products. There was no evidence of any personal guilt on the defendant's part, nor was there any proof or claim that he ever knew of the introduction into commerce of the adulterated drugs in question. The disagreement among the members of the court was essentially one of statutory interpretation, but in view of the fact that …

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Rights In Land - Lateral Support - Statute Increasing Common Law Rights And Duties - Constitutionality Mar 1935

Rights In Land - Lateral Support - Statute Increasing Common Law Rights And Duties - Constitutionality

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff sued for damages to his building which collapsed during excavating operations on defendant's adjoining land. A Michigan statute makes it the duty of land owners excavating to a depth of 12 feet or more below grade level to furnish sufficient lateral support to protect adjacent land and structures thereon from injury "due to the removed material in its natural state, or due to the disturbance of other existing conditions caused by such excavation," and imposes liability for injuries due to failure to comply with the act. The excavation on defendant's land, reaching a depth of 14 feet below grade …

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Recognition Of Validity And Incidents Of Marriages Between Blacks And Whites, Lewis F. Powell Jr. Apr 1931

Recognition Of Validity And Incidents Of Marriages Between Blacks And Whites, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Powell Writings

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Note And Comment, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, John R. Rood Mar 1911

Note And Comment, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, John R. Rood

Michigan Law Review

Power of the Governor General to Expel Resident Aliens from the Insular Territory of the United States; Confusion of the Doctrine of Estoppel with that of Bona Fide Purchase for Value without Notice; The Way of the Transgressor is Easy; Duty of the Mortgagee to Give Notice and Proff of Loss Under Standard Policy

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Note And Comment, Henry M. Bates, Edson R. Sunderland, Harry W. Isenberg, James H. Brewster Jan 1910

Note And Comment, Henry M. Bates, Edson R. Sunderland, Harry W. Isenberg, James H. Brewster

Michigan Law Review

The Right of Privacy at Common Law; Limitation of a Carrier's Liability for Negligence; Validity of Corporate By-Law Vesting in Directors the Discretionary Power of Denying Stockholders the Right to Examine the Corporate Books; A Single Action of Successive Actions for a Nuisance; Status of One Holding Office Under an Unconstitutional Statute; Two Recent Decisions Preventing the Presbyterian Re-Union

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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Nov 1905

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Banks--Equity--Insolvency--Preference of Creditors; Banks--Special or General Deposit; Constitutional law--Due Process of Law; Constitutional Law--Right of Property; Contract--Liability for Breach in Discharge of a Professor; Corporations--Liability of Directors for Excessive Indebtedness; Criminal Law--Larceny Distinguished from False Pretenses; Criminal Law--Remarks of District Attorney--Appeals to Race Prejudice; Damages--Proper Averment in an Action for Deceit in the Sale of Realty; Easement--Right of Way--Immemorial Custom--Easements Appurtenant; Elections--Constitutionality of Law Changing Date--Holding Over; Evidence--Personal Injury--Physical Examination of Plaintiff; Evidence--Physical Examination of Accused; Evidence--Privileged Communication--County Attorney; Execution--Premature--Collateral Attack; Foreign Corporations--Service of Process on Officer; Homestead--Oral Contract for Conveyance--Specific Performance; Husband and Wife--Liability of Husband for the Support …

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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jun 1905

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Banks, National--Stockholders' Liability--Statute of Limitations; Bills and Notes--Indorsements Procured by Fraud; Carriers--Drover's pass--Release from Liability; Carriers--Unreasonable Freight Rates--Interstate Commerce Act--Common Law Remedy; Chattel Mortgages--Failure to Record--Mortgagor in Possession--Estoppel; Connecting Carriers--Loss of Goods--Liability; Constitutional Law--Civil Rights--Discrimination in Licenses; Constitutional Law--Eight Hour Law--Police Power--Health Regulations; Corporations--Duplicate Stock Certificate--Indemnity; Corporations--Subscription to Stock--Liability of Subscriber; Equity--Specific Performance--Contract to Make Will; Evidence--Physicians of conflicting Schools--Competency as Witnesses; Evidence--Radiograph--X-ray; Garnishment--One Railroad as Debtor of Another; Husband and Wife--Application of Doctrine of Tenancy by Entireties to Personality; Husband and Wife--Indebtedness to Wife--Notes--Presumption of Payment; Judgment--Default--appearance; Libel--Publishing of a White Man that He is "Colored"; Master and Servant--Concurrent …

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Freedom Of Contract, Jerome C. Knowlton Jan 1905

Freedom Of Contract, Jerome C. Knowlton

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The liberty mentioned in the Fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution "means not only the right of the citizen to be free from the mere physical restraint of his person, as by incarceration, but the term is deemed to embrace the right of the citizen to be free in the enjoyment of all his faculties; to be free to use them in all lawful ways; to live and work where he will; to earn his livelihood by any lawful calling; to pursue any livelihood or avocation, and for that purpose to enter into all contracts which may be proper, necessary …

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Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review Dec 1902

Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Constitutional Law--Unlawful Delegation of Legislative Power; Fraudulent Conveyances--Estoppel Against Married Woman; Ackknowledgment Taken and Certified by a Stockholder of Corporation Mortgage or Grantee; Constitutional Law--Power of the Legislature to Abridge the Authority of Courts to Punish for Contempt; Special Assessments--right of Taxpayer to Defent Upon the Ground that IMprovements were not Properly Made; Judgements--Estoppel to Maintain Subsequent Action for Different Cause; Anti-Trist Act--Discrimination in Favor of Certain Classes; Courts--Conflict of Jurisdiction--Creditor's Bill; Garnishment--Possession to Charge Garnishee; Judgements--Satisfaction by Levy; Jugements--Execution Sales--Right of Defendant on Reversal

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