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Aesthetic Zoning Regulations, Newman F. Baker

Michigan Law Review

The court house of Sangamon county, Illinois, is situated in the center of a block or square, known as Lincoln Square, in the city of Springfield. The building is of architectural beauty and great historical interest, the corner stone having been laid in 1837 and the building used as the Capitol building for the state of Illinois until 1876. The buildings on the four sides of the Square were all two or more stories in height until January, 1926, when a three- story building, located on the north-east corner of the Square was practically destroyed by fire. The owners planned …

Law Of Zoning In Missouri, The, Frederick V. Wells

University of Missouri Bulletin Law Series

The term "Zoning" is used in this article only in its broad sense to mean a comprehensive scheme for the districting of a city by law to accomplish certain ends. Zoning for cities has been defined as: "The creation by law of districts, in which regulations, differing in different districts, prohibit injurious and unsuitable structures and uses of structures and land." The zone plan helps to coordinate the various parts of the city plan in accordance with a predetermined city-wide scheme for development.3 It is in the essence the exercise of the community right to regulate to a limited degree …

Book Reviews

Michigan Law Review

A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.

The Remedies Of A Landlord Against A Subtenant

Michigan Law Review

As against the assignee of the lessee the landlord at common law has practically the same remedies that he had against the original lessee. He can distrain on goods found on the leased premises, to secure rent which is in arrears, 2 TIFFANY, LANDLORD AND TENNANT, § 328; and he has the right to re-enter on breach of expressed condition. 2 TIFFANY, LANDLORD AND TENANT, § 194h. As there is privity of estate between the parties, the landlord can recover for breaches of those covenants in the lease, which run with the land. These primarily are those which touch and …

Constitutionality Of Zoning Ordinances, George W. Meuth

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Rylands Vs. Fletcher Rule In West Virginia, Edmund C. Dickinson

West Virginia Law Review

The apparent tendency of recent legislation to recur to the early conception of liability regardless of fault has called attention again to that much discussed subject, and particularly to that manifestation of it which we call the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher. It is not the purpose of the writer to discuss the theoretical merits of that rule or to engage in any controversy as to its scope or utility. Assuming its existence and recognition in some jurisdictions, the purpose of this article is to analyze the West Virginia cases involving the doctrine with a view to ascertaining the extent …

Legal Limitations Of Municipal Beatification, T. P. H.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Assignability Of Easements In Gross In American Law, Lewis Mallalieu Simes

Michigan Law Review

In an admirable comment in the Yale Law Journal for June, 1923, signed W. R. V., it was proposed to explain the American cases on the assignability of easements in gross on the ground that those easements which are admeasurable are assignable; while others are not. This explanation is said to be derived from the law of profits. From that view of the American cases the writer respectfully dissents, and desires to show in this article that no good reason exists why easements in gross should not be held to be assignable.

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 …

Private Ownership -- Its Characteristics And Legal History In The United States, Hugh Evander Willis

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Dedication To Public Use--What Constitutes--Acceptance, R. J. R.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews

Michigan Law Review

A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.

Equitable Restrictions--Restrictions As The Use Of Land--Statutes Of Fraud, M. T. V.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Dedication--Effect Of--Revocability Of Dedication, W. F. K.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Law Of Oil And Gas, Iv, James A. Veasey

Michigan Law Review

This clause follows the grant, and is one of the most distinctive features of the modern oil and gas lease. Occasionally the duration of the lease is fixed by the granting clause; some times by a miscellaneous provision appearing therein. But generally speaking, the habenduin defines the term of the present-day oil and gas lease. At any rate a discussion of the legal effect of the habendum clause which now characterizes these instruments will involve the treatment of every important question which arises under this heading. At the outset we should observe that the clause is the direct result of …

Law Of Oil And Gas, James E. Veasey

Michigan Law Review

The lessor hereby grants to the lessee, his heirs and assigns, the exclusive right to mine and produce from the following described land petroleum and natural gas, with possession of so much of such land as may be necessary for such purpose.

Law Of Oil And Gas, James A. Veasey

Michigan Law Review

The questions heretofore considered are general in their scope, and were treated for the purpose of providing a background for the more intensive study upon which we must now enter. While commentators refer to this branch of jurisprudence as the "Law of Oil and Gas," it is more exact to say that .we are dealing with the law pertaining to oil and gas leases. This is true because the oil and gas lease characterizes and distinguishes the subject throughout. For reasons which inhere in the very nature of the business a lease yielding the lessor a royalty on the quantity …

Law Of Oil And Gas, James A. Veasey

Michigan Law Review

No thoughtful observer will presume to gainsay the all-important part which the oil business plays and will continue to play in the industrial, commercial and social life of the civilized world. Long before the great war this fact was deeply impressive, and was generally recognized. At the end of that conflict it was said with much truth that the Allies had floated to victory upon a sea of oil. Now, standing as we are at the threshold of a new era rich in industrial and commercial promise, no man can foresee nor even approximate the mighty expansion which will characterize …

Municipal Corporations--Police Power--Height Of Buildings

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Manual On Land Registration, Arthur Gray Powell

Historical Treatises

Excerpt from the preface:

I decided that my labors would prove most useful if I attempted to write a practical, rather than a learned treatise on the subject. While the subject is one that might bear much fruit under learned treatment, still what the present moment most demands is a practical handbook which will inform the profession and the officers who are to administer the law what to do and how to do it, when a landowner comes seeking to register his land.

There has been no effort at style, except that I have striven to state matters in a …

Church Cemeteries In The American Law, Carl Zollmann

Michigan Law Review

One of the most usual sights in any rural community in the United States is a church edifice with a cemetery in the immediate neighborhood. This condition of affairs, where a church society antedates the municipal corporation within whose limits it exists, can even occasionally be found in populous cities. Such cases, however, are fast disappearing. The demands of commerce and the doctrines of modern sanitation are too strong to be resisted. When a cemetery situated in the heart of a city is not abandoned on account of the monetary inducements held out by commercial interests, the law-making power of …

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

Michigan Law Review

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

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.

Note And Comment, Henry Rottschaefer, Walter Mckenzie, Karl J. Mohr, John G. Cedergren, J G. Tucker Jr

Michigan Law Review

The Use of Multiple in Determining the Value of Railroad Lands - The case of Chicago & N. W. Ry. Co. v. Smith et al., decided by the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota and reported in 21o Fed. 632, contains an interesting suggestion as to the means to be employed in determining the value of lands used for railway purposes, which 'Was not, however, accepted by the court.

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.

Ordenanzas De Construcción Para La Ciudad De La Habana Y Pueblos De Su Término Municipal, Aurelio Sandoval Y García

Cuban Law

(Vigentes para las Poblaciones de Cuba). Brevemente anotadas y comentadas.

4a edición.

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.

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.

Note And Comment, Sigmund W. David, Newton K. Fox, Harold R. Curtis, Aquilla C. Lewis, Albert R. Dilley

Michigan Law Review

Civil Liability for False Testimony; Review by the Courts of the Decisions of the Land Department; Right of One Partner to Sue His Co-Partners in Conversion; Does a Tax Deed, Void on it Face, Give Color of Title; Interference With Employment by Trade Union;