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Law As A Culture Study, Edson R. Sunderland

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That acute observer and commentator on American institutions, James Bryce, in an oft-quoted statement in his American Commonwealth, pays a high tribute to the efficiency of American law schools. "I do not know if there is anything," he writes, "in which America has advanced more beyond the mother country than in the provision she makes for legal education." In passing this generous judgment, in which many other eminent Englishmen have concurred, he views our law schools simply as institutions for developing technical proficiency among students destined to fill the ranks of the legal profession. And this is, indeed, the principal …

Thomas Mcintyre Cooley, Harry B. Hutchins

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The Department of Law of the University was opened in the fall of 1859. The wisdom of the step was doubted by many, and it cannot be said to have had the hearty support of the profession of the State. Systematic legal education through the instrumentality of formal instruction was in its infancy. It was practically unknown in the west, for outside of New England and New York there was at the time no law school of standing and influence. The profession generally, the country over, had little sympathy with any method of training for the bar excepting the historic …

University Of Michigan Department Of Law Annual Announcement 1905-1906 And Catalogue Of Students For 1904-1905, University Of Michigan Law School

Law School Announcement and Bulletins

Contents: Announcements for 1905-1906; Board of Regents; Faculty of Law; Department of Law; Work in the Department of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Students; Summary of Students; Officers of the Alumni Association.

University Of Michigan University Bulletin, New Series Vol. Vi No. 4 March 1905 Summer Session Department Of Law Eleventh Annual Announcement, University Of Michigan Law School

Law School Announcement and Bulletins

Contents: Faculty of the Summer Session; Summer Session of the Department of Law; Regular Session of the Department of Law of the University of Michigan; Departments of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and of Medicine and Surgery; Students Enrolled in 1904; Summary of Students.

Cases On The Law Of Partnership, Floyd R. Mechem, Frank L. Sage

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Note to First Edition [1896]: "The following collection of cases has been made primarily for use in connection with the writer's lectures on Partnership in the Law School of this University and to accompany his 'Elements of Partnership' recently published."

Note to Third Edition: "In this edition the number of cases has again [from Second Edition] been considerably increased." F.R.M. ... October 1, 1905

University Of Michigan Department Of Law Annual Announcement: 1904-1905 And Catalogue Of Students From 1903-1904, University Of Michigan Law School

Law School Announcement and Bulletins

Contents: Announcements; Board of Regents; Faculty of Law; Department of Law; Work in the Department of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Students; Summary of Students; Officers of the Alumni Association.

University Of Michigan Summer Session Department Of Law Tenth Annual Announcement 1904, University Of Michigan Law School

Law School Announcement and Bulletins

Contents: Summer Session of the Department of Law; Regular Session of the Department of Law of The University of Michigan; Departments of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and of Medicine and Surgery; Students Enrolled in 1903.

Illustrative Cases On Equity Jurisprudence, Harry B. Hutchins, Robert E. Bunker

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This second edition (1904) retains the same arrangement and chapters of the previous edition (1902) about which was written, in a contemporary review: "These cases cover the entire subject of Equity Jurisprudence, and are classified according to the arrangement that is followed in Eaton on Equity….”

Law Class Of 1904

Yearbooks & Class Year Publications

Directory of the Law Class of 1904.

Michigan '04 Law

Yearbooks & Class Year Publications

The Michigan '04 Law no. 3. Published January, 1907.

Michigan 1904 (Law) News And Directory

Yearbooks & Class Year Publications

The Michigan '04 Law no. 1. Published January 1, 1905.

Michigan 1904 (Law) News And Directory

Yearbooks & Class Year Publications

The Michigan '04 Law no. 2. Published September 1, 1905.

A Treatise On The Law Of Wills: Including Also Gifts Causa Mortis And A Summary Of The Law Of Descent, Distribution And Administration, John R. Rood

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“The present work was undertaken with the purpose of furnishing a substantial treatise on the whole law of succession in one volume. Within this scheme were comprehended the separate topics following: 1, gifts causa mortis, by reason of their resemblance to legacies; 2, wills, including all legal questions and doctrines peculiar to wills; 3, the substantive law of descent and distribution; and 4, the adjective law of succession, including the administration of both testate and intestate estates.”--Preface.

Outlines Of The Law Of Bailments And Carriers, Edwin C. Goddard

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The Outlines of Bailments and Carriers form part of a complete work on that subject intended for the use of classes in law schools. The other part, which is nearly ready for publication, consists of select cases illustrating and amplifying principles stated in the Outlines. It is the purpose of the Outlines not only to state the foundation principles of the subject, but to put these in orderly and consecutive form in order that the student may have an opportunity to see the subject as a whole. It is believed that any study of the cases without some such connected …

Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

The Law School-Changes in the Faculty--Readjustment of Courses of Study; Sir Frederick Pollock's Visit to Michigan; The Second Lecture--The Scales of Justice; The Development of Criminal Law; The Law of Reason; Corporations--railroads--Stockholding Corporations--Combinations in Restraint of Trade and Commerce--consolidation of Parallel and Competing Lines; Constitutional law--Classification--Limit of Judicial Construction;

University Of Michigan Department Of Law Annual Announcement: 1903-1904 And Catalogue Of Students For 1902-1903, University Of Michigan Law School

Law School Announcement and Bulletins

Contents: Department of Law; The Department Building; Libraries; Directions to Candidates for Admission; Requirements for Admission; Admission to Advance Standing; Class Rating; Admission of Special Students; Examinations for Admission; Course of Instruction; Oratorical Associations; Literary Societies; Requirements for Graduation; Certificates of Attendance; Work in the Department of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Text-Books and Books of Reference; Fees and Expenses; Summer Session; Students.

University Of Michigan Summer Session Department Of Law: Ninth Annual Announcement. 1903, University Of Michigan Law School

Law School Announcement and Bulletins

Contents: Department of Law; Libraries; Registration; Requirements for Admission; Tuition Fees; Location, Expenses, Board, Etc.; credit for Work Done; Courses of Study; Regular Session of the Department of Law of the University of Michigan; Course of Free Lectures; Students; Summary of Students.

University Of Michigan: A Directory Of The Law Class Of 1903

Yearbooks & Class Year Publications

Directory of the Law Class of 1903.

Law Class Of 1903

Yearbooks & Class Year Publications

Directory of the Law Class of 1903.

A Directory Of The Law Class Of Nineteen Hundred Three

Yearbooks & Class Year Publications

Second edition of the directory of the Law Class of 1903.

Cases On Equity Pleading And Practice, Bradley M. Thompson

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The cases contained in this volume have been selected with a view of assisting both the student and the instructor, with illustration of the practical application of the general principle and rule of equity pleading and practice. Only so much of the statement of fact and of the opinion of the court have been retained in each case as is sufficient to make the decision upon the question of pleading before the Court intelligible and clear. As far as possible all padding has been excluded. Littleton ha aid: "And know, my son, that it is one of the most honorable, …

Cases On The Law Of Partnership, Floyd R. Mechem, Frank L. Sage

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A casebook with selected cases to aid the teaching of partnership law.

The Law Library, Victor H. Lane

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It has been thought that a brief sketch of the library of the law department which should furnish information as to its present condition and of the more important of the incidents of its history would be of sufficient general interest to warrant its publication in the ALUMNUS, and I have been requested to prepare such an article.

The Practice Court, Edson R. Sunderland

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The law department of the University of Michigan has always proceeded upon the theory that the chief function of a law school is to fit men for the practice of the law. An aim to make professional instruction as thoroughly practical as possible is by no means a narrow one, nor is it out of accord with the liberalizing tendencies of university culture. The age is insisting with more and more emphasis that nothing is valuable which is not useful, a doctrine which does not put culture upon a money basis but does insist that all knowledge is but a …

Conveyancing In The Law Department, James H. Brewster

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There was a time when the young man "studied law" in the private office of some successful practicing lawyer. Much time was spent by the student in copying legal papers the real meaning of which was seldom understood and seldom explained. Fundamental legal principles were but little considered. Only under the most exceptional circumstances was this method educational. There was little, if any, systematic and orderly study of law as a science. That young men, after serving such an apprenticeship, ever became good lawyers was rather in spite of this manner of training them than because of it. As the …

Cases On The Law Of Damages, Floyd R. Mechem

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Note to the Second Edition: “The following selection of cases in the law of Damages has been made primarily for use in connection with the lectures upon that subject given in the Law department of the University of Michigan. The purpose has been particularly to supply illustration of the application of principles referred to in the lectures, and partly to supplement the lectures by rounding out the view of certain fields not otherwise completely developed.”

Note to the Third Edition: “While the general features remain the same, the number of cases in this edition has been considerably increased in the …

Directory Of Living Members Of The 1902 University Of Michigan Law Class

Yearbooks & Class Year Publications

Directory of the Law Class of 1902 at its 50th reunion.

Directory Of The 1902 Law Class

Yearbooks & Class Year Publications

Second edition of the directory of the Law Class of 1902.

Cases On The General Principles Of The Law Of Private Corporations, Volume 2, Horace L. Wilgus

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In the first volume, and in the first two titles of the second volume, are considered the doctrines relating to the birth, life, powers, acts, obligations, and death of a corporation, effort being made to get a view of the general principles of the whole.

This second volume, with the exception of the first two titles, deals with the Corporation as a Subject and Source of Peculiar Rights and Obligations in its twofold aspect of Corporate Relations and Individual Relations.

University Of Michigan Department Of Law Annual Announcement 1902-1903, University Of Michigan Law School

Law School Announcement and Bulletins

Department of Law; The Department Building; Libraries; Directions to Candidates for Admission; Requirements for Admission; Admission to Advanced Standing; Class Rating; Admission of Special Students; Examinations for Admission; Course of Instruction; Recitations and Examinations; Theses; The Practice Court; Club Courts; Conveyancing; The Graduate Course; Roman Law; Elocution and Oratory; Oratorical Associations; Northern Oratorical League; Central Debating League; Pennsylvania-Michigan Contest; University Oratorical Association; Literary Societies; Requirements for Graduation; The Degree of Bachelor of Laws; The Degree of Master of Laws; Certificates of Attendance; Work in the Department of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Constitutional History and Political Science; Combined Course in …