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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

Michigan Law Review

Administrator--Debt Due From Him to the Estate--Effect of Administrator's Insolvency; Agency--Action by Undisclosed Principal--Abstractoer's Liability; Agency--Liability for Acting Without Authority; Agency--duty to Exercise Good Faith--Commissions; Bankruptcy--Preferences; Banks and Banking--Subagent--Collection; Conflict of Laws--Married Women--Note made in One State but Payable in Another, and Action Brought in the Third; Constitutional Law--bill of lading--Conclusive Evidence; Constitutional law--Eminent Domain--Right to Compensation Before Entry; Constitutional Law--Legislative Control of Municipal Contracts--Eight Hour Law; Constitutional Law--Privileges and Innumities of citizens--Statute Authorizing Personal Judgment on Constructive Service; Corporations--Notice to Corporators; Court--disturbance--Power to Prevent; Criminal Law--Commencement of Term of Imprisonment; Criminal Law--Depriving of Necessary Sustenance--Medicine; Deeds--Covenants that Run witht …

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Administrator--Debt Due From Him to the Estate--Effect of Administrator's Insolvency; Agency--Action by Undisclosed Principal--Abstractoer's Liability; Agency--Liability for Acting Without Authority; Agency--duty to Exercise Good Faith--Commissions; Bankruptcy--Preferences; Banks and Banking--Subagent--Collection; Conflict of Laws--Married Women--Note made in One State but Payable in Another, and Action Brought in the Third; Constitutional Law--bill of lading--Conclusive Evidence; Constitutional law--Eminent Domain--Right to Compensation Before Entry; Constitutional Law--Legislative Control of Municipal Contracts--Eight Hour Law; Constitutional Law--Privileges and Innumities of citizens--Statute Authorizing Personal Judgment on Constructive Service; Corporations--Notice to Corporators; Court--disturbance--Power to Prevent; Criminal Law--Commencement of Term of Imprisonment; Criminal Law--Depriving of Necessary Sustenance--Medicine; Deeds--Covenants that Run witht …

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 …

Cases On The Law Of Succession To Property After The Death Of The Owner, Floyd R. Mechem

Books

“The following cases have been printed at the request of Professor Mechem, of the Law Department of the University of Michigan, for use in connection with his lectures in that law school. They have been chiefly selected from Reeves’ Cases on Wills and Abbott’s Cases on Descent, Wills, and Administration.” Title page.

Testamentary Promises To Pay, Nathan Abbott

Articles

The New York Law Journal for May 23, 1892, contains a suggestive editorial headed "A Will or Not a Will," in which the writer says "Interesting questions are constantly arising in the classification of instruments which, although expressing wishes or intentions to be carried out after death, are open to criticism on the score of testamentary execution." As is intimated by the writer, the difficulty of placing an instrument in either the class of contracts or wills is considerably diminished if the statutory provisions as to execution of wills are elaborate. Where holographic wills are allowed, or wills of personal …

David Maynard Et Al V. Fractional School District, & C., Thomas M. Cooley

Articles

"A bequest to the members composing the School District by name, and to their successors in office, of moneys to be expended in the purchase of books for a district library -- thy being the officers designated by law to preform similar duties for the district -- is in effect a bequest to the district."

Lucy M. Maynard by her last will directed the residue of her estate be sold and the monies be placed at the disposal of the District Board of the Fractional School District in Milan and York, Michigan, and used for library supplies. "The validity of …