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Eminent Domain - Public Housing And Slum Clearance As A "Public Use", Wayne E. Babler Dec 1937

Eminent Domain - Public Housing And Slum Clearance As A "Public Use", Wayne E. Babler

Michigan Law Review

The recent legislation providing for housing and slum clearance raises the interesting and practical problem of whether a taking of land for such housing and slum clearance purposes by means of an eminent domain proceeding is condemnation for a "public use," within the meaning of that term in eminent domain proceedings. Such a taking was held to be for a public use in the recent case of Spahn v. Stewart.


Bankruptcy - Corporate Reorganization - Plan - Adequate Protection Of Claims - Due Process, Erwin S. Simon Apr 1937

Bankruptcy - Corporate Reorganization - Plan - Adequate Protection Of Claims - Due Process, Erwin S. Simon

Michigan Law Review

In proceedings for reorganization under Section 77B of the Bankruptcy Act, the debtor held real property valued at $245,025, while outstanding against the property there were first mortgage bonds of $445,000, second mortgage notes for $40,250 and a third mortgage note for $27,000. The court confirmed a plan which made no provision for junior lienors or stockholders, and to which they had not given their consent. On certiorari, granted by the Supreme Court, it was held, that since there was no equity in the property above the first mortgage, the claims of the junior lienors and stockholders had no …


Constitutional Law - Anti-Deficiency Judgment Statutes In Foreclosure Actions - Impairment Of Contract, Elbridge D. Phelps Mar 1937

Constitutional Law - Anti-Deficiency Judgment Statutes In Foreclosure Actions - Impairment Of Contract, Elbridge D. Phelps

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff instituted a proceeding on a judgment bond which was secured by a real estate mortgage, both of which had been executed by defendants, caused judgment to be entered on the bond, and procured the issuance of a writ of execution under which the mortgaged premises were sold. Thereafter, under the provisions of the state Mortgage Deficiency Judgment Act, defendants procured a satisfaction of the judgment in toto. After entry of such satisfaction, plaintiff filed a petition upon which the court granted a rule on defendants to show cause why the satisfaction should not be stricken. From an order dismissing …


Constitutional Law--Impairing Obligation Of Contracts--Statute Of Limitations On Enforcement Of Lien Of Trust Deed Jun 1936

Constitutional Law--Impairing Obligation Of Contracts--Statute Of Limitations On Enforcement Of Lien Of Trust Deed

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Land Book Assessment Amendment--Enabling Legislation, William H. Waldron Jr. Jun 1935

The Land Book Assessment Amendment--Enabling Legislation, William H. Waldron Jr.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


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 …


Constitutional Law--Eminent Domain-Public Use Jan 1935

Constitutional Law--Eminent Domain-Public Use

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Taxation--Constitutional Law--Due Process Of Law As Prescribing Maximum Limits For Direct Property Taxes, Charles W. Caldwell Apr 1934

Taxation--Constitutional Law--Due Process Of Law As Prescribing Maximum Limits For Direct Property Taxes, Charles W. Caldwell

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Minnesota Mortgage Moratorium Case, Joseph V. Heffernan Mar 1934

The Minnesota Mortgage Moratorium Case, Joseph V. Heffernan

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Law - Moratory Legislation Feb 1934

Constitutional Law - Moratory Legislation

Michigan Law Review

A Minnesota statute, in view of the economic emergency, provided, among other things, that courts might, upon petition of a mortgagor, extend the period of redemption from mortgage foreclosure sales for a definite time not beyond May 1, 1935. If a court took such action, the mortgagor was to remain in possession of the premises and pay a reasonable rental to the mortgagee. Held, by the United States Supreme Court in a five-to-four decision, that this statute did not violate the contracts, or due process, or equal protection clauses of the Constitution. Home Building and Loan Association v. Blaisdell …


Constitutional Law--Tax-Exemption Of Realty Purchase With War Insurance Payments, Jack C. Burdett Feb 1933

Constitutional Law--Tax-Exemption Of Realty Purchase With War Insurance Payments, Jack C. Burdett

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Legal Concepts In Cases Of Eminent Domain, Joseph M. Cormack Jan 1931

Legal Concepts In Cases Of Eminent Domain, Joseph M. Cormack

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Tax Exception Of Property Used For Educational, Religious And Charitable Purposes, Kendall H. Keeney Dec 1928

Tax Exception Of Property Used For Educational, Religious And Charitable Purposes, Kendall H. Keeney

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Law-Eminent Domain-Judcial Review By Certiorari Apr 1928

Constitutional Law-Eminent Domain-Judcial Review By Certiorari

Michigan Law Review

In a previous number of this volume the holding of the supreme court of Michigan was discussed wherein sections 1 and 2, article 13, of the constitution of 1908 were held to make necessity as well as compensation a judicial question in eminent domain cases. Accordingly, in that case, the court held that the feature of the statute (P. A. 1925, No. 352) authorizing the state highway commissioner to make a conclusive determination of necessity, without notice and hearing to the landowner, and without judicial review, was unconstitutional.


Constitutionality Of Municipal Zoning And Segregation Ordinances, George D. Hott Jun 1927

Constitutionality Of Municipal Zoning And Segregation Ordinances, George D. Hott

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Aliens-Right To Own Or Lease Land-Effect Of "Equal Protection" Clause Feb 1924

Aliens-Right To Own Or Lease Land-Effect Of "Equal Protection" Clause

Michigan Law Review

Right of alien residents under the "equal protection" clause of- the federal Constitution received further delimitation in the Alien Land Law Cases, decisions handed down last November. Terrace v. Thompson (U. S. 1923), Adv. Ops. 35, and Porterfield v. Webb, Adv. Ops. 42. In the former case the court was concerned with a Washington statute passed to enforce a provision in the Washington constitution that forbade the ownership of land by any aliens other than those who had in good faith declared their intention to become citizens. The California statute in the second case differed chiefly in limiting its …


Real Property-Alienation-Limitation Feb 1924

Real Property-Alienation-Limitation

Michigan Law Review

In the field of property as in that of personal rights (including contract) we still encounter occasionally the specter of certain supposedly absolute rights. The courts have had to declare often enough that the owner's rights of use are limited by the like rights of other owners, by considerations of public policy, public convenience, etc.; it is not so often that a court deals explicitly with the limitations upon an owner's power of disposing and leasing his property. In Terrace v. Thompson, recently decided by the United States Supreme Court (Nov. 12, 1923) it was urged by a United …


Constitutional Law--Police Power, Regulation, And Confiscation Mar 1923

Constitutional Law--Police Power, Regulation, And Confiscation

Michigan Law Review

Whether the power be taken away directly, or be deadened and atrophied in its action by adverse criticism and demagogic clamor, when the judiciary no longer feel at liberty to construe the provisions of the fundamental Law 'in the light of reason,' constitutional government, in the sense in which it has been understood for a century and a half, will be at an end, and the doctrine of the police power will have been swallowed up in the capacious maw of unrestrained democracy." 27 HARV. L. REV. 316. Mr. Wickersham penned this warning during the period when the swell of …


Compulsory Construction Of New Lines Of Railroad, Kenneth F. Burgess May 1922

Compulsory Construction Of New Lines Of Railroad, Kenneth F. Burgess

Michigan Law Review

In the half century of public regulation of railroads in the United States, regulatory legislation has dealt primarily with functions incident to the operation of existing enterprises. The basic concept has been that railroad corporations as common carriers have voluntarily assumed obligations to the public which the public has a right to require to be performed.


Note And Comment, Edgar N. Durfee, Cyril E. Bailey, Edwin B. Stason, William C. O'Keefe, Clyde Y. Morris Apr 1922

Note And Comment, Edgar N. Durfee, Cyril E. Bailey, Edwin B. Stason, William C. O'Keefe, Clyde Y. Morris

Michigan Law Review

The Basis of Relief from Penalties and Forfeitures - The equitable principle of relief from penalties and forfeitures is so far elementary as almost to defy analysis. Many, perhaps most, of the judicial explanations of the principle have based it upon interpretation or construction, appealing to the doctrine that equity regards intent rather than form. Yet a logical application of this doctrine would lead to results very different from those which have actually been arrived at in the decisions. Thus, a stipulation in a mortgage that the mortgagor waives his equity of redemption can hardly be interpreted as meaning that …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Apr 1922

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. …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Mar 1922

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Carriers of Passengers - Duty to Stop at Station to Permit Passenger to Alight-Contributory Negligence of Passenger Plaintiff's intestate was riding in the front end of a crowded vestibule car in the coach next to the tender of the eengine. When the train stopped at his station he tried to leave by the front end, but found the door from the vestibule closed. As he did not know how to open it, or was unwilling to be carried by his station, he stepped from his platform to the bumper of the tender and tried to follow it to the side …


Constitutionality Of Emergency Rental Regulation, Walter F. Dodd Jan 1922

Constitutionality Of Emergency Rental Regulation, Walter F. Dodd

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Changes In Eminent Domain In Illinois, William E. Britton Jan 1920

Constitutional Changes In Eminent Domain In Illinois, William E. Britton

Articles by Maurer Faculty

The purpose of this article is (1) to review the constitutional changed that have taken place in 'the law of eminent domain in Illinois; (2) to discuss the proposals which have been introduced in the present Constitutional Convention; and (3) to indicate some of the more important constitutional changed which, in recent years, have occurred in other states.


Recent Important Decisions; Book Reviews, Edwin C. Goddard, John R. Rood May 1916

Recent Important Decisions; Book Reviews, Edwin C. Goddard, John R. Rood

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions and book reviews.


Recent Important Decisions Nov 1915

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


Recent Important Decisions Jun 1915

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


Note And Comment, Hollis Harshman Feb 1915

Note And Comment, Hollis Harshman

Michigan Law Review

Breach of Landlord's Covenant as Defense to Action for Rent - It is undoubtedly well settled that if the agreement to pay rent is dependent upon the performance by the landlord of some undertaking on his part, the failure by the landlord so to perform is a good defense to an action for the rent. It is equally well settled that if the agreements are independent such failure by the landlord is no defense. The difficulty arises in determining whether the agreements are dependent or independent. That question is one of construction, and it cannot be expected that all the …


Recent Important Decisions Dec 1914

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


Note And Comment, Albert V. Baumann Jr, Stannley E. Gifford, Donald F. Melhorn, Ralph W. Aigler Jan 1914

Note And Comment, Albert V. Baumann Jr, Stannley E. Gifford, Donald F. Melhorn, Ralph W. Aigler

Michigan Law Review

Interstate Commerce and State Control Over Foreign Corporations - Since Bank of Augusta v. Earle, 13 Pet. 519, there seems to have been no real occasion to doubt the power of a state totally to exclude foreign corporations seeking to engage in intrastate business only. The power to exclude being absolute, there has been no question as to the right of the state to allow the entrance of the foreign corporation for such business upon terms, and the terms may be of any sort, reasonable or unreasonable, except that the corporation seeking to enter cannot as a condition precedent to …