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Recent Important Decisions Jan 1926

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.

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Recent Important Decisions Mar 1925

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.

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Recent Important Decisions Jun 1924

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.

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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. …

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Documents And Their Scientific Examination, Victor H. Lane Jan 1922

Documents And Their Scientific Examination, Victor H. Lane

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Professor Lane's short review of a "little work" that touches on "the composition and behavior of inks, pencil pigments, sealing wax, and other writing materials in connection with their use upon documents." Lane feels that "A study such as this is of material importance in presenting expert evidence in civil and criminal cases..."

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Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, Robert L. Mayall, Sidney E. Doyle, Burke W. Shartel Mar 1913

Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, Robert L. Mayall, Sidney E. Doyle, Burke W. Shartel

Michigan Law Review

The Character of User In Prescription - As the possession of the claimant in a case of adverse possession must be shown to have been adverse in order to ripen into title, so also must the user in prescription be shown to have been adverse during -the endure prescriptive period. As to the burden of proving the adverse character of the possession in the first case there seems to be doubt whether there is a presumption of adverseness by showing open possession and acts of ownership, or whether there is a burden upon the claimant to go further. See 2 …

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Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, Langdon H. Larwill, Walter R. Metz Mar 1912

Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, Langdon H. Larwill, Walter R. Metz

Michigan Law Review

The Rule of Certainty in Damages and the Value of a Chance; Is a Bank Check an Assignment Pro Tanto of the Fund on Deposit?; The "Finger-Print" Case; Right of Husband to Recover Alimony Independent of an Action for Divorce;

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Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, Thomas L. O'Leary, Harry W. Isenberg, Samuel R. Williams, Karl B. Goddard May 1910

Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, Thomas L. O'Leary, Harry W. Isenberg, Samuel R. Williams, Karl B. Goddard

Michigan Law Review

Interstate Commerce and State Control of Foreign Corporations; Quantum of Evidence Necessary to Sustain a Plea of Justification, to a Civil Action of Libel or slander, for charging the Plaintiff with a Crime; Statutes Requiring the Appointment of Public Officers from Certain Political Parties; Proximate Cause; Police Regulation of the Business of Plumbing

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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Mar 1908

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bankruptcy--Assignment--Validity--Possession of Res.; Carriers--Assaults by Employees on Passengers; Constitutional Law--Judicial Powers--Legislative Action of City Council Not Enjoined; Constitutional Law--Privileges and Immunities; Constitutional Law--Taxation of Imports; Contracts--Accord and Satisfaction--Consideration; Corporations--Liability of Bondholders on "Bonus Stock"; Covenants--Creation by Acceptance of Deed Poll; Criminal Law--Habeas Corpus--Want of Jurisdiction; Damages--For Wrongful Cutting of Timber--Value of the Manufactured Lumber; Evidence--Admissions of a Tenant in Common; Evidence--Effect of Plaintiff's Refusal to Submit to Physical Examination; Equity--Laches; foreign Corporations--What Constitutes "doing Business" in the State--Restrictions on State in Case of Interstate Commerce; Injunction--Suspension of Operative Force Pending Appeal; Judgment--conclusiveness--Matters Concluded; Judgment--foreign Judgment--Enforcement; Landlord and Tenant--Trade Fixtures--Right of …

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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Feb 1908

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Attachment--Property Subject to--Goods Conditionally Sold; Bankruptcy--Receiver and Manager--Insufficient Estate--Priorities; Bankruptcy--Solicitor and Client--Account Stated Bankruptcy of Client--Trustee's Right to Go Behind Stated Account, and Require Details; Banks and Banking--Receivers in Proceedings for Dissolution--Sufficiency of Bill; Bills and Notes--Foreign Bill of Exchange--Failure to Protest; Constitutional law--Equal Protection of the Law--Regulation of Common Carrier; Contracts--Mutuality of Obligation; Corporations--Agreement to Take Shares of Stock; Damages--Mental Suffering--Wanton Wrong; Deeds--Date--Presumption as to Time of Delivery; Deeds--Description--Statement of Quantity Controlling; Elections--Certificates of Nomination--Time of Filing--Accident and Mistake Causing Delay; Evidence--Admissibility of Conversation by Telephone; Evidence--Proof of Value--An Exception to the Hearsay Rule; Husband and Wife--Estate by Entirety--application …

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Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review May 1905

Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Lesson in Patriotism from Pennsylvania; The Effect of a Motion by Each Party for a Directed Verdict; The Right of Privacy; Mutual Mistake as to the Quantity of Land Conveyed; The Privilege; Riparian Owner's Title to Contiguous Islands;

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Examination Of The Medical Expert, Harry B. Hutchins Jan 1905

Examination Of The Medical Expert, Harry B. Hutchins

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The expert witness differs essentially from the ordinary witness in at least two particulars; first, in that the field of his testimony is outside the range of ordinary knowledge and experience; and, secondly, in that his testimony in the great majority of cases is in the form of opinions or conclusions that are deemed necessary for the proper guidance of the jury. It goes without saying that the 'lawyer who undertakes the examination of the expert should have such familiarity with the subject of inquiry as will enable him to develop it through the expert logically and clearly, but unfortunately …

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Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review Feb 1904

Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

The American Political Science Association; The Bill of Rights and The Right to Labor; Right to Impeach the Consideration of a Judgment Rendered in Another State; the Function of the "Exhibit" in Copde Pleading; Lapse of Residuary Gifts; "Voluntary Confessions"; The Competency of the Conduct of Bloodhounds as Evidence in Criminal Cases; The "Reasonable Use" of Subterranean Waters

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The Physician As An Expert, Harry B. Hutchins Jan 1904

The Physician As An Expert, Harry B. Hutchins

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Expert evidence is evidence of a scientific or technical character in regard to a matter that is outside the domain of ordinary experience and knowledge. The evidence is usually in the form of opinions or conclusions based upon facts that for the purposes of an opinion are assumed to be true, although it may be in regard to scientific facts. The expert is one who has had special training or opportunities in a particular subject that the ordinary witness has not enjoyed, and who has thereby acquired certain habits of judgment.that render his explanations and opinions in the field of …

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