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Wills-Validity Of Attestation On Separate Sheet Of Paper Not Physically Attached To Will, Myron J. Nadler

Michigan Law Review

Testatrix drew an instrument consisting of a single sheet of paper, intending it as her will. In the presence of a notary public, three witnesses observed the instrument with testatrix' signature thereon and her acknowledgment of it as her will, but did not sign it. The document was then placed in an envelope. A separate instrument of attestation which referred to the will was prepared by the notary and signed by the testatrix and the attesting witnesses. This instrument and the envelope containing the will were both placed in another folder which was then deposited with the proper officials. Probate …

Fiduciary Administration -- Deviation From Terms Of Trust--Invasion Of Principal For Benefit Of Life Tenant, W. Stirling Maxwell S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

By a will executed in 1932 testator, who died in 1944, made outright bequests of $2,500 and his personal goods to his widow and $5,000 to each of his sons. He then devised the residue of his estate to trustees to pay the income to his widow for life and, upon her death, to distribute the corpus to his then living issue in equal shares by right of representation, and, in default of such issue, to those who would take if he had died intestate when his widow died. The will gave the trustees broad investment and management powers but …

Recent Cases, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Law Review

CONFLICT OF LAWS--FULL FAITH AND CREDIT--DOMESTIC SEPARATE MAINTENANCE DECREE SURVIVES FOREIGN DIVORCE

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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--DUE PROCESS--USE OF PEREMPTORY'CHALLENGE TO EXCLUDE ALL MEMBERS OF ACCUSED'S RACE FROM TRIAL JURY

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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--FREEDOM OF SPEECH--USE OF AMPLIFICATION DEVICE IN PUBLIC PARK HELD WITHIN CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEE

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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--SEARCHES AND SEIZURES--EVIDENCE OBTAINED WITHOUT SEARCH WARRANT INADMISSIBLE THOUGH SEIZED IN PROCESS OF LAWFUL ARREST

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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--RACIALLY RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS--JUDICIAL ENFORCEMENT AS STATE ACTION

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CONTRACTS--BROKER'S COMMISSIONS--RIGHT TO RECOVER UNDERDOCTRINE OF SUBSTITUTED PERFORMANCE

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CONTRACTS--COMMERCIAL FRUSTRATION--REQUIREMENT THAT A BASIC PURPOSE OF THE CONTRACT BE FRUSTRATED

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CRIMINAL LAW--CUMULATIVE SENTENCES--EFFECT OF STATE PAROLE UPON COMMENCEMENT OF …

Constitutional Law-Due Process-Freedom Of Speech-Limitations On The Used Of Sound Amplification Devices, Bernard Goldstone

Michigan Law Review

Appellant, a minister of Jehovah's Witnesses, used, without a permit, sound equipment mounted on his truck to amplify lectures on religious subjects. He was convicted in a police court for violating a municipal ordinance of Lockport, New York. which prohibited the use of sound amplification devices without the permission of the chief of police. The ordinance provided no standards for the guidance of the local officer in the issuance of the permit. The conviction was affirmed by the county court and by the appellate court. On appeal, held, reversed, four justices dissenting. The ordinance violated the due process clause …

The Bill Of Rights, The Fourteenth Amendment And The Supreme Court, John Raeburn Green

Michigan Law Review

The first enforcement of any of the First Amendment freedoms against the states, through the Fourteenth Amendment, was in 1927. In the twenty years since, these freedoms have, one by one, been brought within the protection of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, as integral parts of the "liberty" which is safeguarded against state denial-the process having been completed in 1947 by the dictum that the prohibition of the establishment of religion ran against the states. The chronology of the struggle to enforce the Bill of Rights against the states, as well as other circumstances, suggests that the …

Conflict Of Laws-Effect Of Foreign Divorce Decree On Husband's Duty Of Support In Marital Domicile

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

Domestic Relations-Application Of Estoppel To Prevent Party Obtaining A Foreign Divorce From Subsequently Attacking Its Validity

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

An Interim Account On Comparative Conflicts Law, Ernst Rabel

Michigan Law Review

Under the sponsorship of the American "Law Institute and subsequently of the University of Michigan, with the efficient assistance of the Faculty, notably of Hessel E. Yntema as editor, I published the first volume of a work on conflicts law in 1945. A second volume has just followed, after a long delay caused by the vicissitudes of postwar printing. The greater part of a third volume has been readied in the meantime, but its date of publication is not yet fixed.

The task consists in surveying the existing and proposed conflicts rules of the world and in ascertaining their background, …

Constitutional Law--Due Process And The Bill Of Rights--Self-Incrimination, F. William Hutchinson

Michigan Law Review

In the course of evolving workable doctrines which give substance and meaning to the skeletal phrase "due process of law" as used in the Fourteenth Amendment to limit state action, the Supreme Court has frequently been called on to determine the scope of the several prohibitions and guarantees of the Bill of Rights of the federal Constitution. This general problem, and more particularly the application of the Fifth Amendment self-incrimination clause to state criminal proceedings, was again presented in a recent case and resulted in a sharp division of opinion within the Court.

Conflict Of Laws-Constitutional Law-Full Faith And Credit-Fraternal Benefit Society's Constitution Controlling Over Statute Of Limitations Of Forum State, Bruce L. Moore S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

In an action against an Ohio fraternal benefit society to recover insurance benefits resulting from the death of an insured member, the defense was that the constitution of the society prohibited the bringing of an action on such a claim more than six months after disallowance of the claim. This provision was valid under the statutes and court decisions of Ohio. The statute of limitations of the state of the forum, South Dakota, was six years on contract actions. Another statute of South Dakota declared void every stipulation in a contract limiting the time within which a party may enforce …

Conflict Of Laws-Limitation Of Actions-Determination Of Place Of Accrual Of Action To Enforce Liability Of Stockholders In Insolvent National Banks, Edwin F. Uhl S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Suits in equity were brought in the federal district courts of Ohio and Pennsylvania against resident shareholders of Banco Kentucky Company, a bank-stock holding corporation. The purpose of the litigation was to enforce an assessment under the National Bank Act on the shares of an insolvent national bank which Banco owned. Ohio and Pennsylvania have six year statutes of limitations on such an action. They also have borrowing statutes, barring suit on a cause of action no longer enforceable in the jurisdiction in which it arose. The bank had been authorized to conduct its activities in Louisville, Kentucky, had engaged …

The Conflict Of Laws: A Comparative Study. Volume Two. Foreign Corporations: Torts: Contracts In General, Ernst Rabel

Michigan Legal Studies Series

Full application of comparative methods to the law of conflicts requires a working plan of some magnitude. We ought to take stock of the conflicts rules existing in the different countries of the world, state their similarities or dissimilarities, and investigate their purposes and effects. The solutions thus ascertained should moreover be subjected to an estimation of their usefulness, by the standards appropriate to their natural objective. Conflicts rules have to place private life and business relations upon the legal background suitable to satisfactory intercourse among states and nations. They are valuable to the extent that their practical functioning, rather …

Some Aspects Of Conflict Of Laws In The Old Spanish Jurisprudence, William Q. De Funiak

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Supreme Court And The Conflict Of Laws, Fowler V. Harper

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Policy Bases Of The Conflict Of Laws: Reflections On Rereading Professor Lorenzen's Essays, Fowler V. Harper

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

The Accumulation Of Contact Points Theory

Indiana Law Journal

Notes and Comments:Conflicts of Laws

Conflict Of Laws--Apparent Trends In Jurisdiction, Rosanna A. Blake

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Conflict Of Laws-Statute Of Limitations-State Statute Binding On Federal Court In Equity Case When Sole Ground Of Jurisdiction Is Diversity Of Citizenship, Samuel D. Estep S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Defendant trust company was trustee for enforcing the rights of noteholders of the Van Sweringen Corporation. When it became apparent that the Corporation could not meet its obligations, defendant company gave an option to noteholders to sell the notes for 50 per cent cash plus stock in the Van Sweringen Corporation. The donor from whom the plaintiff had received some of these notes as a gift had not accepted the exchange. Plaintiff brings suit for an alleged breach of trust. The circuit court of appeals held, reversing the summary judgment of the district court, "that in a suit brought on …

A Comparative Study Of Conflict Of Laws: A Review Of Volume One, Elliott E. Cheatham

Michigan Law Review

This is a notable book. It is the first volume of a comparative study of conflict of laws, undertaken at the invitation of the American Law Institute and completed with the support of the University of Michigan Law School. The author, Dr. Rabel, is a man whose great learning has been tempered and made fruitful by a distinguished and varied career as lawyer and as judge on national and international tribunals, as director of an institute of comparative law and conflict of laws serving practical as well as scholarly aims, and as author and professor of law.

Abstracts, Mary Jane Plumer

Michigan Law Review

The abstracts consist merely of summaries of the facts and holdings of recent cases and are distinguished from the notes by the absence of discussion.

What Of The World Court Now?, C. Sumner Lobingier

Michigan Law Review

The Permanent Court of International Justice was expressly provided for in the League of Nations Covenant (Article XIV) of 1919 and the "Statute" creating it was drafted by an advisory committee of the League, meeting at the Hague, and opened for signature in the following year. By 1921 the ratifications of twenty-eight states put it into effect and the Court was formally opened, with a full quorum of judges, on February 15 (Bentham's birthday) 1922. For nearly twenty years it continued to function and its sessions were suspended only by the presence of the Nazi invaders of the Netherlands.

The Conflict Of Laws: A Comparative Study. Volume One. Introduction: Family Law, Ernst Rabel

Michigan Legal Studies Series

Full application of comparative methods to the law of conflicts requires a working plan of some magnitude. We ought to take stock of the conflicts rules existing in the different countries of the world, state their similarities or dissimilarities, and investigate their purposes and effects. The solutions thus ascertained should moreover be subjected to an estimation of their usefulness, by the standards appropriate to their natural objective. Conflicts rules have to place private life and business relations upon the legal background suitable to satisfactory intercourse among states and nations. They are valuable to the extent that their practical functioning, rather …

Conflict Of Laws--The Migratory Divorce--Williams V. State Of North Carolina, Ira G. Stephenson

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Conflict Of Laws--Physical Presence And Appearance As Bases Of Jurisdiction, Rosanna A. Blake

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Conflict Of Laws--Securing Service On Corporations, Rosanna A. Blake

Kentucky Law Journal

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Conflict Of Laws--The Doing Of An Act As The Basis For Jurisdiction, Rosanna A. Blake

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Workman's Compensation Award Held Res Judicata As To Second Recovery In Another State

Indiana Law Journal

Conflict of Laws Note

Inapplicability Of Erie V. Tompkins To Suits In Which The United States Is Drawee Of A Check

Indiana Law Journal

Notes and Comments: Conflict of Laws

Foreign Exchange Restrictions And Public Policy In The Conflict Of Laws: Part Ii, Evsey S. Rashba

Michigan Law Review

Political Laws have been the subject of a much disputed doctrine. It has been stated by Dicey, and by other authoritative writers in various countries, that a court has no jurisdiction to entertain an action for the enforcement of a "political law" of a foreign state. The term "political law" is not limited to the field of public law. It is, of course, only exceptionally that rules governing the relations between a state and its citizens are given extraterritorial effect. The doctrine goes further. It holds that rules which are technically a part of private law, but which are designed …

Foreign Exchange Restrictions And Public Policy In The Conflict Of Laws, Evsey S. Rashba

Michigan Law Review

The general movement towards national economic planning and away from the freedom of the liberal age has brought about unprecedented state interference with international trade. These interferences have vastly increased during the past twenty-five years and have grown at a rapid pace during the last decade.