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The Attaint, John M. Zane Nov 1916

The Attaint, John M. Zane

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The practice of attainting a jury was the method by which for centuries the English law corrected an erroneous finding of fact by the body of men who, in course of time, came to be called a jury. Today this necessary corrective of judicial administration is very inadequately performed by the judge or judges presiding over the trial. The proceeding is now called a motion for a new trial. The new trial is inadequate for the reason that it does not, as did the attaint, substitute a correct verdict for the one given. It merely reverses or sets aside the …

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Civil Law And The Common Law A World Survey, R W. Lee Dec 1915

Civil Law And The Common Law A World Survey, R W. Lee

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In universities and other seats of learning, where men devote themselves to the pursuit of truth, certain great events or movements in the world's history claim attention as essentially and always proper subjects of investigation. Whatever the future may bring, we can hardly suppose a time when the art of Greece, the literature of England, the religions of the East will not be studied. Nor before an assembly of lawyers is it necessary to urge the claims of a great system of law as a subject which may well engage the amplest resources of the human intellect. For many centuries …

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Note And Comment, Henry Rottschaefer, Walter Mckenzie, Karl J. Mohr, John G. Cedergren, J G. Tucker Jr Dec 1914

Note And Comment, Henry Rottschaefer, Walter Mckenzie, Karl J. Mohr, John G. Cedergren, J G. Tucker Jr

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The Use of Multiple in Determining the Value of Railroad Lands - The case of Chicago & N. W. Ry. Co. v. Smith et al., decided by the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota and reported in 21o Fed. 632, contains an interesting suggestion as to the means to be employed in determining the value of lands used for railway purposes, which 'Was not, however, accepted by the court.

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Some Myths Of The Law, Walter Clark Nov 1914

Some Myths Of The Law, Walter Clark

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When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things." These words of the great Apostle to the Gentiles apply to every calling and to every profession under the sun save only that of the law.

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Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, Robert L. Mayall Nov 1912

Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, Robert L. Mayall

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The Law School; Possession Under Mistake, as Adverse Possession; Limitation of Carrier's Common-Law Liability; The Force and Effect of State Insolvency Laws Under the Bankruptcy Act of 1898;

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Note And Comment, Gordon W. Stoner, Sigmund W. David, Victor R. Jose Jr. Nov 1911

Note And Comment, Gordon W. Stoner, Sigmund W. David, Victor R. Jose Jr.

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The Law School; Pleading Estoppel; Libels on Person and on Property; The Conflict Between a Patentee's Right to Monopoly and a State Anti-Monopoly Statute

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

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

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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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The Reasons For Some Legal Fictions, Sidney T. Miller Jun 1910

The Reasons For Some Legal Fictions, Sidney T. Miller

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In this age of fact, fancy is at a discount. Consequently legal fictions, which required the play of some fancy in their beginning, have fallen not only into disuse but also into disfavor. Many of them, however, have done good work in the past, and some are doing it now. Therefore it may not prove uninstructive to consider some in a discursive way. A legal fiction is probably best defined as "a legal assumption that something is true which is, or may be, false-being an assumption of an innocent and beneficial character, made to advance the interests of justice."1 From …

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Note And Comment, Edson R. Sunderland, Frederick H. Schmidt, John R. Rood, Ralph W. Aigler, Robert T. Hughes Mar 1910

Note And Comment, Edson R. Sunderland, Frederick H. Schmidt, John R. Rood, Ralph W. Aigler, Robert T. Hughes

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The Work of the Commissioners on Uniform State Laws; Some Difficulties of Code Pleading; Applicability of Ordinances to the Distribution of Liquors by Social Clubs; Capias in Execution Without Prior Order or Arrest; The Degree of Care Required in the Operation of a Scenic Railway; Who Can Complain of Ultra Vires Acquisition of Real Estate by a Corporation?; The Heinrich Brunner Memorial;

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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

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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 Mar 1909

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

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Assignment for Creditors--Validity of Common Law Assignment Under State Statutes--Assignee May Maintain Replevin; Bills and Notes--Fraud--Ability to Read; Bills and Notes--Signature by Agent or Representative--Personal Liability; Boundaries--Meander Line as Boundary in Government Grants--Mistake in Survey; Carriers--Liability as Carriers of Live Stock; Contracts--Antenuptial Agreements--Performance Prevented by Party; Courts--Supreme Court--Review of Decisions of State Courts; Courts--United States Courts Enjoining Proceedings in State Courts--establishment of Railroad Rates by Commission; Criminal Law--Larceny--Fraudulent Use of Legal Process; Criminal Law--Reception of Verdict--Accused's Right to be Present; Dead Bodies--Power of Court to Order Exhumation to Procure Evidence; Evidence--Burden of Proof; Evidence--compelling Accused to Criminate Himself--Waiver of Privilege; …

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Professor Kales And Common Law Remainders, Joseph W. Bingham May 1907

Professor Kales And Common Law Remainders, Joseph W. Bingham

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In an article in Vol. 22 of the Law Quarterly Review, Professor Albert M. Kales presents a reclassification of future interests in land, the salient feature of which is an attempt to overthrow the conventional conception of a contingent remainder as a future estate given, not presently, but on condition precedent, and to substitute an entirely new conception of his own. This effort, by its boldness and novelty commands something more than a mere passing mention. It is my purpose, first to present as briefly as is consistent with clearness what I conceive to be the common law theory of …

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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Nov 1905

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

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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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Territorial Expansion Of The Common Law Ideal, John F. Simmons Nov 1905

Territorial Expansion Of The Common Law Ideal, John F. Simmons

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It is a truism to declare that we live in an age of evolution; but evolution is only growth and growth, however trite it may seem, is after all an ever-recurring miracle and a miracle implies the marvelous. Among the marvels which appear in the evolution of our times, none is more remarkable than the persistency of the expansion of the ideas and ideals of the Common Law. Before the dawn of history, the records which the tongues of mankind have kept, and which the persistency of certain tribal peculiarities has confirmed, teach us that the races which today dominate …

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Consideration V Causa In Roman-American Law, Joseph H. Drake Nov 1905

Consideration V Causa In Roman-American Law, Joseph H. Drake

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In the case of Mtembre v. Webster, decided recently (19o4) in the Supreme Court of Cape Colony, South Africa, the court (De VILLIERS, J.) says that the causa of Roman-Dutch Law* (oorsaak-German Ursache) has become for all practical purposes equivalent to the valuable consideration of the Common Law., The court says further, 'I can not find that in practice any gratuitous promises except donations-as to which there are especial rules were ever enforced by law.' Sir Frederick Pollock in commenting on this case says, "The power of the Common Law to impose its conceptions on foreign systems when opportunities occur …

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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jun 1905

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

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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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Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review Mar 1905

Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review

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The Federal Safety Appliance Act as a Regulation of Interstate Commerce; Liability of Christian Science Healer for Negligence and Deceit; Iowa and the Rule in Shelley's Case; Are Conditions Imposed by the Vendor of Chattels Binding on Subsequent Purchasers? Necessity for the Personal Presence of the Accused Upon Arraignment; Unconstitutional Aids to Local Industries; Damages for Mental Suffering Unaccompanied by Physical Injury

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The Old Roman Law And A Modern American Code, Joseph H. Drake Jan 1905

The Old Roman Law And A Modern American Code, Joseph H. Drake

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In Book II, on Property, Ownership, and its Modifications, the Porto Rican Code follows closely its Spanish prototype. The main variation in general outline is the omission from the American code of the special property in minerals and in intellectual productions.

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Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review Jan 1905

Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review

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A New Instance of the Power of Congress to Destroy by Taxation; Pleading Contributory Negligence Under the Code; Presumptions as to Delivery of Deeds; Jurisdiction of Equity to Restrain Threatened to Wrong; The Power of Courts to Allow Amendments Under the Common Law and Code Procedure; Situs of Debts; The Time Limit for Presentations of Railroad Tickets

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The Old Common Law And The New Trusts, Ditlew M. Frederiksen Dec 1904

The Old Common Law And The New Trusts, Ditlew M. Frederiksen

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T HE Civil Code of Porto Rico, our latest Roman American code, gives interesting proof of the fact that the two systems of law, the Roman and the English, which control most of the nations of the civilized world and their dependencies, are, in their essence, but slightly different enunciations of the same principles of natural justice. The parent of the Civil Code of Porto Rico1 is the Spanish Civil Code,2 in force in Spain since May I, 1889, and extended to Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines on July 31, 1889. The Spanish Civil-Code is the result of the …

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Doctrine Of Waiver, Colin P. Campbell Nov 1904

Doctrine Of Waiver, Colin P. Campbell

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There is probably no doctrine of our law so much neglected in scientific discussion, and in legal text-books, as this principle which forms the theme of our essay. The reason for this is difficult to assign, for in point of importance this doctrine takes first rank; and while its boundaries are somewhat confused with the lines of demarcation between the law of contracts and the doctrine of equitable estoppel, it is in reality based upon a body of well established principles. Although much confusion among the cases in which this doctrine has been applied must be conceded, this disorder may …

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The Law Of Reason, Fredrick Sir Pollock Dec 1903

The Law Of Reason, Fredrick Sir Pollock

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If there is one virtue that our books of authority claim for the Common Law more positively than another, it is that of being reasonable. The law is even said to be the perfection of reason. Not that the meaning of that saying is exhausted by the construction which a layman would naturally put upon it. For, as Coke had to tell King James I., much to his displeasure, there is an artificial reason of the law. Certainty is among the first objects of systematic justice. General principles being once fixed, the only way to attain certainty is to work …

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The Liability Of The Custodian Of Public Funds Lost Without His Fault, Gustav Stein Apr 1903

The Liability Of The Custodian Of Public Funds Lost Without His Fault, Gustav Stein

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In a work on Public Offices and Officers, the writer characterizes the question of the liability of an officer and his sureties for loss of public funds by the officer without default on his part, as ''of great interest and importance, but one upon which the authorities are in conflict." Since the publication of that work in 1890, a con­ siderable number of cases has arisen continuing the conflict, and llustrating its importance. It is proposed in this article, to state the views entertained by the courts, the extent to which they have been applied, the reasons advanced to support …

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Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review Dec 1902

Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review

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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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The Genesis And Development Of The Law Of Waters In The Far West, John B. Clayberg Nov 1902

The Genesis And Development Of The Law Of Waters In The Far West, John B. Clayberg

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The law of waters, as now settled on the Pacific Coast and the adjacent states is such a distinct departure from the common law of waters, that an investigation of the cause and reasons for such departure cannot fail to be interesting to every lawyer who cares to informed with reference to such peculiarities. There is no occasion to more than. briefly refer to the common law of running waters and inland lakes, because it is well settled by a long line of decisions practically Uniform, and every lawyer is familiar with it. It will be sufficient to state the …

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Note And Comment, Floyd R. Mechem Nov 1902

Note And Comment, Floyd R. Mechem

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The Law School; Trade-Mark -- Invented Word -- Words Expressing Character or Quality; State Quarantine Laws as Affecting Inter-State or Foreign Commerce; Druggist - Liability for Negligence; Constitutional Law -- Inter-State Commerce -- Charging More for Shorter Than for Longer Haul; Malicious Prosecution of Purely Civil Action Without Arrest of Person or Seizure of Property; is it Fraud for a Plaintiff to Conceal Defenses to his own Action?; Wills--Withnesses Signing Before Testator, Effect; Impeachment of Witness--Privileged Communication; Evidence--Dying Declaration; Partnership by Estoppel in Tort Cases; Color Distinctions--Separations of Passengers upon Street Cars; Mortgage of Furture Offspring of Animals owned by …

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Note & Comment, Michigan Law Review Jun 1902

Note & Comment, Michigan Law Review

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Announcement; Note and Comment: The Right of a De Jure Officer to Recover Salary or Fees Paid to a De Facto Officer; Exemplary Damages Where Acutal Damages Merely Nominal; Seduction--Fiction of Service; Negligence--Druggist Selling Proprietary Medicine Without Knowing Contents; Physician--Duty to Respond to Call; Wills--Contract to Make--Fraud in Obtaining Charity--Relief in Equity; Sale--Bank Cashing Draft Drawn Against consignment of Goods as Purchaser--Liability Upon Express or Implied Warranty of Title or Quality; Voters--Right to Vote for Candidate whose Name is not on the Official Ballot; Constitutional Law--Fourteenth Amendment--Due Process--Equal Protection; Statute of Limitations--Failure to Leave Subjacent Support in Mining--When Statute begins …

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