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Bar Endorsement Of Judicial Candidates, Oscar Haney

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Constitutional Law-Court Of Claims-Legislative Courts-Reducing Judge's Salary

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews

Michigan Law Review

Six brief book reviews of various law topics.

Tenure Of Office Under The Constitution, Everett S. Brown

Michigan Law Review

A review of TENURE OF OFFICE UNDER THE CONSTITUTION By James Hart.

Portrait Is Given I. U. Law School (Banta Portrait Article)

David Banta (1889-1896)

1927 Indiana Daily Student article, describing the gift of a portrait of David Banta to the Law School.

Book Reviews, Nathan Isaacs, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Arthur H. Basye, Leonard D. White, Victor H. Lane, Edwin D. Dickinson

Michigan Law Review

What does a judge do when he decides a case? It would be interesting to collect the answers ranging from those furnished by primitive systems of law in which the judge was supposed to consult the gods to the ultra-modern, rather profane system described to me recently by a retrospective judge: "I make up my mind which way the case ought to be decided, and then I see if I can't get some legal ground to make it stick." Perhaps the widespread impression is the curiously erroneous one lampooned by Gnaeus Flavius (Kantorowitz). The judge is supposed to sit at …

Note And Comment, Ralph W. Aigler, Edgar N. Durfee, Werner W. Schroeder, Arthur A. Morrow, Harry B. Sutter, Russell H. Neilson

Michigan Law Review

Estates in Fee Tail - Quite generally estates in fee tail under the STATUTE DE DONIS were recognized by the states as a part of the common law. Statutory provisions in the way of modification and abolishment of such estates, however, are very common. The nature and scope of the statutory provisions have varied. See the states classified according to the character of the legislation in BREWSTER, CONVEYANCING, § § 142, 143.

David Demaree Banta

David Banta (1889-1896)

Memorial of David Demaree Banta

In Memoriam, W. P. Rogers

David Banta (1889-1896)

Obituary of David Demaree Banta, published in the Arbutus Yearbook and authored by Dean William Perry Rogers.

Banta, David D., T. W. Woollen

David Banta (1889-1896)

Biographical Profile of Judge David Demaree Banata

Is The Pride Of Indiana - The State University

David Banta (1889-1896)

Newspaper article profiling several Indiana University faculty and administrators, including David Demaree Banta.

Journal Of David Mcdonald, David Mcdonald

Historic Documents

Handwritten journal of David McDonald who is recognized as the first Professor of Law at Indiana University. The journal is undated but contains a transcribed article from the Cincinnati Gazette dated April 17, 1865.

McDonald was born in Millersburg, Kentucky and moved to Indiana when he was 14, in 1817. He eventually became a school teacher in Washington, before meeting a local lawyer who encouraged him to study law. He was licensed to practice in the Circuit Courts in 1830. He served as a member of the Indiana Legislature (1833-34) as well as being elected judge of the 10th Circuit …