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Nature Of American Religious Corporations, Carl Zollman Nov 1915

Nature Of American Religious Corporations, Carl Zollman

Michigan Law Review

From the earliest period of our history it has been recognized that corporate existence and capacity is desirable if not indispensable in order to carry on the affairs of the various church societies in the most efficient manner. Accordingly various forms of religious corporations have been developed. Of these the earliest, namely the territorial parish and the corporation sole, grew out of the then existing union of church and state. They were public municipal corporations and passed away with the system which had given them birth. Their place was taken by other church corporations of which there are three principal …


Recent Important Decisions Nov 1915

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


Powers Of American Religious Corporations, Carl Zollmann Jun 1915

Powers Of American Religious Corporations, Carl Zollmann

Michigan Law Review

Religious corporations in the United States have assumed various shapes. The original two forms, (corporation sole and territorial parish) being unsuited to our conditions, have completely passed away. In their stead have grown up four other classes, the aggregate corporation, the trustee corporation, the modern form of the corporation sole, and the Roman Catholic Church in our insular possessions. These four kinds of corporations, however diverse they may be in their history and otherwise, have a number of important qualities in common. None of them are ecclesiastical corporations in the European sense of the word. All of them owe their …


Note And Comment, John B. Waite, Henry Rottschaefer, Roswell B. O'Harra, Leslie C. Mcclelland, Russell B. James, Hollis Harshman Jun 1915

Note And Comment, John B. Waite, Henry Rottschaefer, Roswell B. O'Harra, Leslie C. Mcclelland, Russell B. James, Hollis Harshman

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The Completion of a Contract by Posting of Acceptance - In the recent case of Kennedy Mcrcantile Co. v. Western Union Telegraph Co., the court says, "It is well settled law in this state that,where an offer is submitted by letter, an acceptance is conclusive and binding when a letter is deposited in the post-office accepting the same. The delivery to the one making the offer is not the test; for when the offer is submitted in that way it is equivalent to an invitation to accept by the same means, and when the acceptance is delivered to the agency …


Recent Important Decisions May 1915

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


Conveyancing In The Province Of Quebec, Howard S. Ross Apr 1915

Conveyancing In The Province Of Quebec, Howard S. Ross

Michigan Law Review

A solicitor who has had experience as a conveyancer in any of the other Canadian provinces is at first disappointed when he finds on coming to Quebec to practice that in Quebec the bulk of the conveyancing is done by Notaries who, as is well known, belong to a distinct profession founded on the French Notarial system. An Advocate may not be a Notary or a Notary an Advocate, at one and the same time. In a few cases young men take the examinations and qualify as Advocates and Notaries and then elect. Occasionally after practicing a number of years …


Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, John R. Rood, Henry Rottschaefer, Allen M. Reed Mar 1915

Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, John R. Rood, Henry Rottschaefer, Allen M. Reed

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Revocability of Licenses - The Rule of Wood v. Leadbitter - That a mere license purporting to create in the licensee a new right or privilege is revocable at law at the will of the licensor seems to have been definitely settled in England by Wood v. Leadbitter. It was there held that the plaintiff who had entered the close of the defendant's master after the purchase of a proper ticket could be -forcibly ousted, notice having been first given that he should leave. The only remedy open to the ousted ticket holder-in law at least-no excessive violence having been …


Recent Important Decisions Mar 1915

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


Early History Of Equity, W S. Holdsworth Feb 1915

Early History Of Equity, W S. Holdsworth

Michigan Law Review

Mr W. T. BARBOUR'S Essay on the History of Contract in early English Equity, which has been published this year in Oxford Studies in Social and Legal History, is one of the most, if not the most, valuable of the contributions to English Legal History which has yet appeared in that series. Mr. BARBOUR is to be congratulated on his first appearance in a field in which the harvest, though somewhat difficult to collect, is very abundant,-- in a field in which the labourers are all too few. I think too that the Essay is important not only because it …


Recent Important Decisions Feb 1915

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


Recent Important Decisions Jan 1915

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


Note And Comment, Joseph H. Drake, Hollis Harshman, Marcy K. Brown, Leslie C. Mcclelland Nov 1914

Note And Comment, Joseph H. Drake, Hollis Harshman, Marcy K. Brown, Leslie C. Mcclelland

Michigan Law Review

The Law School opens with an attendance of 500, the decrease from last year's numbers (on account of the increased requirements for admission) being less than was anticipated.


Recent Important Decisions Nov 1914

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


Note And Comment, Harry W. Lippincott, John S. Kelley Jr, George E. Kennedy, Louis R. Lackey Jun 1914

Note And Comment, Harry W. Lippincott, John S. Kelley Jr, George E. Kennedy, Louis R. Lackey

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Mutuality in Automobile Agency Contracts - Within the past few years several courts have had to pass upon and construe argreements between the manufacturers and the selling-agents of automoobiles, which have necessitated a thorough discussion of the principles of mutuality of obligation of contracts. The attempt to reach a correct solution has developed a vigorous difference of opinion on the subject in some recent cases which it may be of interest to discuss and compare.


Recent Important Decisions Jun 1914

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


Note And Comment, George E. Kennedy, Paul B. Barringer Jr, John S. Kelley Jr May 1914

Note And Comment, George E. Kennedy, Paul B. Barringer Jr, John S. Kelley Jr

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The Constitutionality of the Webb-Kenyon Act - In the constitutional history of the commerce clause, by virtue of which absolute control of interstate commerce was given to the Federal Government, there is no question which has caused so much difficulty and has resulted in so many unsatisfactory and contradictory. statements of the law as that problem arising through the attempts of many States effectively to enforce prohibition laws. The power over interstate commerce, delegated to the Federal Government, and the police power, reserved to the States, have not seriously conflicted except in this one instance. But the delegation of power …


Recent Important Decisions May 1914

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


Trusts Based On Oral Promises To Hold In Trust To Convey Or To Devise Made By Voluntary Grantees, George P. Costigan Jr Apr 1914

Trusts Based On Oral Promises To Hold In Trust To Convey Or To Devise Made By Voluntary Grantees, George P. Costigan Jr

Michigan Law Review

Where a trust is claimed because a grantee has violated some oral promise in reliance upon which the conveyance to him was made, it is customary to say that he took upon an oral trust. That, however, is often not a correct statement of the situation unless an oral promise to convey or to devise to a third person, or to reconvey or to devise to the grantor, is necessarily to be deemed an oral promise to hold in trust. Many of the so-called oral-trust deed cases are really cases of contracts analogous to bailment contracts, made for the benefit …


Recent Important Decisions Apr 1914

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


Recent Important Decisions Mar 1914

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


Recent Important Decisions Feb 1914

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


Recent Important Decisions Jan 1914

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


Recent Important Decisions Nov 1913

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


Recent Important Decisions May 1913

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

Banks and Banking - Right to Set-off Deposit Against Debt Due Bank - L. Bank set off a matured debt due to it by a depositor against the amount due by the bank to the depositor, all of which was done after the death of the depositor and after appraisers appointed to set apart a year's support to his widow had made a return, setting apart the amount due by the bank to the decedent. Held, that the bank exercised its right of setoff too late, Luthersville Banking Co. v. Hopkins (Ga. 1913) 77 S. R: 589.


Is The Doctrine Of Consideration Senseless And Illogical, Henry Winthrop Ballantine Apr 1913

Is The Doctrine Of Consideration Senseless And Illogical, Henry Winthrop Ballantine

Michigan Law Review

In a recent article Dean ASHLEY, a distinguished authority on contracts, takes the somewhat paradoxical position of being at the same time counsel for the defense and also prosecutor of the doctrine of consideration. While defending it against various relaxations and modifications which have been suggested to accomplish more rational and just results, which he denounces as subterfuge and unwarranted usurpation of legislative power by the courts, he also, as it were, saws off the branch he is sitting on, by contending that the time has now come, either for the courts themselves to overrule the entire doctrine, or for …


Recent Important Decisions Apr 1913

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

Bankruptcy - Jurisdiction Depending on Principal Place of Business, Residence or Domicile - B, a domiciled resident of New York, employed by an express company in New York City in the capacity of a rate clerk, moved to New Jersey in igo8 for the purpose of acquiring a residence which would give the courts of that state jurisdiction of a contemplated divorce proceeding against his wife. He retained his position with the express company in New York, and in 1911 he secured a divorce in New York, the sole ground of jurisdiction of the New York court being that the …


Debt, Assumpsit, And Consideration, W S. Holdsworth Mar 1913

Debt, Assumpsit, And Consideration, W S. Holdsworth

Michigan Law Review

Lord Mansfield is said to have remarked that "nothing in law is so apt to mislead as a metaphor;"' and if the remark is applied to branches of the law, the principles of which are fully developed and abundantly illustrated by decided cases, it is doubtless very true. But the historian of law, who looks at the efforts of the courts to create these principles 'by the expansion and adaptation of a few narrow remedies, will not be inclined to undervalue the use of the metaphor or analogy, 'when used to give effect to the requirements of public policy, and …


Recent Important Decisions Mar 1913

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

Bankruptcy - Judgment for Breach of Promis, Aggravated by Seduction, Not Dischargeable - Petitioner 'had secured a judgment against the bankrupt for the breach of a promise to marry, seduction under such promise having been pleaded in aggravation of damages; the common law rule prevails in New York and a woman may not maintain an action for her own seduction. The District Court (196 Fed. 571), viewing this as a judgment grounded solely in contract, and not in tort as "for -will-ful and malicious injury to the person or property of another," or for "seduction of an unmarried female," held …


Note And Comment, George S. Burgess, Samuel H. Morris, William T. Hoffman Feb 1913

Note And Comment, George S. Burgess, Samuel H. Morris, William T. Hoffman

Michigan Law Review

Ten-Hour Labor Laws - The United States Supreme Court will soon have another opportunity to pass on the questions involved in that thorn. in the flesh of social reformers-the Bakeshop Case-if, as is probable, a case recently decided by the Mississippi Supreme Court is carried higher. Last year Mississippi enacted a sweeping ten-hour law making it unlawful for persons, firms or corporations engaged, in manufacturing or repairing "to work their employees more than ten hours per day except in cases of emergency or -where public necessity requires." Defendant, engaged in the manufacture of lumber and in the repair of its …


Note And Comment, Joseph J. Kennedy, Samuel H. Morris, Burke W. Shartel, George S. Burgess Dec 1912

Note And Comment, Joseph J. Kennedy, Samuel H. Morris, Burke W. Shartel, George S. Burgess

Michigan Law Review

Attendance at the Law School; An Extreme Case in the Application of the Safety Appliance Act; Advisory Opinions; Refusal of Specific Performance Where Subsequent Unexpected Events Render it Inequitable; Is Vasectomy a Cruel Punishment