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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Reivew Feb 1906

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Reivew

Michigan Law Review

Acknowledgment--Notary Agent of Grantee--Extra Compensation for Securing Acknowledgment; Attachment of Real Property--Conflict of Jurisdiction--Federal and State Courts; Attorney and Client--Contract Between--Fraudulent Conveyance; Bankruptcy--Preferences--Securing Attorney's Fee; Banks--Liability of Private Banker; Common Carriers--Duty to Receive Helpless Persons as Passengers--Degree of Care Required When Accepted; Common Carriers--duty Toward Hackmen at Depots--May Discriminate; Constitutional Law--Impairing Obligation of Contract--Contracts with Waterworks Companies; Constitutional Law--License for Issuing Trading Stamps; Constitutional Law--Trading Stamp Laws; Corporations--amendment of Charter--Service on--Liberty to Contract; Corporations--Constitutional Law--Pools and Trusts--Foreign Insurance Companies; Criminal law--Written instructions to Jury; damages--Fright Unconnected with Physical Injury; Deed--description--Conveyance to Trustee--Necessity of Word "heirs"--Rule in Shelley's Case--Adverse Possession; Evidence--Corporations--Books …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jan 1905

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Attorney--Disbarment--Procedure; Carriers--Injury to Passenger From Strike Sympathizers; Constitutional Law--Reasonable Classification--Regulation of Insurance Companies--Discrimination in Favor of Foreign Corporations; Constitutional law--Use of Trading Stamps--Police Police Power; Contract--Breach--Damages; Corporation--Notes Given in payment for its own Stock--Bankruptcy--Provable Debts; Damages--Measure--Contribution; Deeds--construction--Description of Subject Matter; Easements--Recital in Deed--Injunction; Election--Candidates--Oath--Constitutionality of Primary Law; Equity--Jurisdiction to Restrain Injunction Proceeding Denied; Estates of Decendents--Funeral Expenses of Married Woman--Liability of Surviving Husband; Executor de Son Tort--Right to Equitable Relief; Foreign corporations--doing Business in State--Failure to Comply with State Laws--Validity of Contract; Garnishment--Situs of Debt; Husband and Wife--Separation Agreements--Validity--Defenses; Insurance--Employer's Liability--Notice of Injury; Intoxicating Liquors--License Non-Transferable; Judgments--dormancy--Effect of Special Execution; …


Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review Jan 1904

Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Sarah Caswell Angell; The Students of the Law Department; The Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws; Royal Prerogative--Treasure Trove; The Erie Canal A navigable Water of the United States; Partnership Name--An Asset of the Partnership--Right of the Purchaser to it Use; Maliciously Inducing a Breach of Contract--Lumley v. Gye;


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Nov 1903

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Acknowledgement--Who May Take--Competency Affected by Interest; Acknowledgement of Mortgage before Stockholder in Mortgage Corporation--Stockholder as Witness; Agency--Distinguished from Trust; Agency or Service--Telegraph Companies--Knowledge of Operator; Carrier--Refusal of Passenger to Pay Extra Fare--Assault by Conductor on Passenger While Enforcing the Company's Rules; Constitutional Law--Free Speech--Distribution of Circulars; Constitutional Law--Master and Servant--Weekly Payment of Wages; Constitutional Law--Municipal Corporations--Minimum Wage Law; Corporations--Partnership with an Individual; Corporations--Ultra Vires--Replevin Undertaking; Deed--Consideration--Bona Fide Purchaser; Eminent Domain--Appropriation of Railroad Property--compensation; Fraudulent Conveyances--Fraud on Creditors--Withholding Mortgage from Record; Fraudulent Conveyances--Loan by Wife to Husband; Garnishment--Rolling Stock--Rights of Garnishee; Guardian and Ward--Testamentary Guardian; Insurance--Pleading--Waiver--Failure of Notice and Proof--General and …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jun 1903

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Agency--Authority to Appoint Sub-Agents; Agency--right to Compensation; Bankruptcy--Discharge; Bankruptcy--Discharge; Banks and Banking--Crediting Depositor--Check of Another Depositor; Conflict of Laws--Legitimation of a Bastard--Status Fixed by Domicile of his Parents; Conflict of Laws--Lex Loci Fori--Right of Action in England for Acts in Foreign Country--Territorial Waters; Constitutional Law--Summary Sale of Trespassing Animals; Contract--Public Policy--General Restraint of Trade; Contract--Validity--Release of Employer for Liability to next of Kin for Injury to Employee; Elections--Right of a Party Committee to Question Eligibility of a Candidate; Fraudulent Conveyances--Contingent Fees; Insurance--Condition for Immediate Notice--Excuse; Married Women--Power to Enter into Partnership with Husband--Set off of Debt Due by Partner in …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review May 1903

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Agency--Action by Undisclosed Principal; Agency--Authority to Sell Land--Notice of Revocation by Record; Agency--Good Faith--Commissions; Bankruptcy--Intent of Insolvent; Carriers--Damages for Loss of Market--Carriage of Goods Destined for Enegies--Seizure of Ships; Constitutional Law--Cigarettes--Original Package; Constitutional Law--Municipal Corporations--Validity of Ordinance Requiring Union Label; Constitutional Law--Vested Rights--Alimony; Contract--Rescission as Affecting Rights of a Stranger to the Consideration; Contract--Public Policy--Agreement to ASsist Attorney to Secure Clients; Courts--contempt--Publication of Evidence in Newspapers; Criminal law--burglary--Sufficient Breaking; Criminal Law--Embezzlement; Damages--Exemplary--Parol License--Revocable--Trespass; Damages--Reversing Judgment for Defendant in Order to Give Plaintiff Nominal Damages; Deeds--Grantees--Constructions; Deeds--Reservation--Construction--Extent of Property; Deeds--Reservation--effectin Equity--Implied Trust; Fraudulent Conveyance--Who are Creditors--claimant in Tort Action; Highways--Street Car …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Apr 1903

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Agency--Nature of Relation--Distinguished from Lease; Bankruptcy--discharge--Judgment Recovered for Alienation of Affections; Banks and Banking--Savings Banks--Pass Books--Payment to Wrong Party--By-Law; Carriers--Passenger Ejected at Wrong Place--Sickness Caused by Act of Carrier; Conflict of Laws--foreign Trustees--Right to Sue; Constitutional Law--Insterstate Commerce--Tax on a Delivering Agent; contracts--Labor Union--Inducing Employer to Break Contracts; Contracts--Validity of Insurance--Property of Alien Enemy--Public Policy; Corporation--Service of Process on Agent; Descent and Distribution--To Illegitimates on the Part of their Mother; Evidence--Defective Sidewalk--Jury--Magnifying Glass; Executors and Administrators--Enforcement of Claims--Limitations; Fraudulent Conveyances--Creditor's Right to Subject Wife's Property to Payment for Improvements Made Thereon by Husband; Fraudulent Conveyances--Personal Liability of Wife for Property …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Feb 1903

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Administrators--deduction of Debts--Statute of Limitations; Agency--Authority to Indorse Negotiable Paper; Agency--Notice--Adverse Interest; Carriers--United States Mail--Liability of Railroad Company for Negligent Loss of Registered Letter; Corporation--Capital Stock--Contracts to Repurchase; Criminal law--Contempt of Court--Concerted Action to Influence Trial; Damages--Sale of Realty--Breach of Vendor's Contract; Equity--Mistake of Law--Recovery of Money Paid for Improvements on Another's Land; Landlort and Tenant--Insolvent Corporation--Accruing Rent; Limitation of Actions--Mortgages; malicious Prosecution--Abuse of Process--Sending Claim to Anothe rState for Collection to Avoid Local Exemptions; Malicious Prosecution--Cevil Cases; Malicious Prosecution--Probable Cause; Marriage--Common Law--present Consent; master and Servant--Assumption of Risk--Neglect of Statutory; Master and Servant--Assumption of Risk--Neglectof Statutory Duty; Municipal Corporations--Local …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Dec 1902

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Agency--Liability of Pincipal for Unknown Deceit of Agent; Action--Splitting Causes of--Injury to Person and Property; Attorney and Client--Jurisdiction of Equity over; Banks and Banking--Cashier--Notice; Carriers--Limiting Liability--Effect of Limitation in Case of Delivery After Notice to Stop in Transit; Carriers--Tort--Ejection of Passenger for Failure to Produce Ticket; Confict of Laws--Bona Vacatia--Rigth of Succession--"Mobilia Sequuntur Personam"; Conflict of Laws--Italian marriage--Deceased Husband's Brother; Conflict of Law--Equal Protection--Refusing Barbar's License to an Alien; Constitutional Law--Equal Protection--Requiring Examination of Graduate of Medical School of other States; Constitutional Law--Insurance Companies---Equal Protection of the Laws; Constitutional Law--Vested Right of Defense--Deprivation of Property Rights; Contract--Performance--Legal Holiday; Contract--Public Policy--Sale …


The American Mutuum, Jerome C. Knowlton Jan 1892

The American Mutuum, Jerome C. Knowlton

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The delivery of goods that may be accurately designated by number, weight or measure, such as corn or wine, on an undertaking that goods of like kind and quality shall be returned, creates what is known in the civil law as the contract of mutuum, a kind of bailment contract. Text writers on the common law regard such a transaction as a sale and not a bailment. "Where there is no obligation to return the specific article, and the receiver is at liberty to return another thing of equal value, he becomes debtor to make the return, and the title …


Subscriptions, Henry W. Rogers Jan 1887

Subscriptions, Henry W. Rogers

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One cannot expect, within the limits of a single article, to exhaust the law relating to Subscriptions. But within the limits assigned, I propose to consider some portions of the law relating to this subject, which seem to me to be of sufficient interest and importance to merit attention in these pages. The subject of Subscriptions is seemingly a narrow one, and yet it has given rise to very considerable litigation, and out of it have come many interesting questions, upon the determination of which large pecuniary interests have often-times depended, especially in the case of Stock Subscriptions.