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A Guide To Federal Warranty Legislation-The Magnuson-Moss Act, Richard H. Matthews

University of Richmond Law Review

One of the primary causes of concern in the recent movement toward greater consumer protection has been in the area of product warranties. Limited express warranties, liability disclaimers and ambiguous remedy

procedures often have been used by manufacturers and merchants to strip the consumer of all but a bare minimum of protection against defective products. Finding state laws incapable of adequately solving this problem, Congress preempted the field by enacting the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act.' This Act makes major changes in the law of warranties and places much heavier legal burdens upon manufacturers and other warrantors. This comment will attempt to …

State Legislative Ratification Of Federal Constitutional Amendments: An Overview, Philip L. Martin

University of Richmond Law Review

Article V of the United States Constitution sets out the amend- ment procedure, which consists of two stages, proposal and ratification. Each stage, in turn, offers two alternative procedures which can be interchanged to provide four means of effecting constitutional alteration. An amendment may be proposed either by a two-thirds vote of each house of Congress or by a national convention assembled upon proper application by the legislatures of two-thirds of the states; and an amendment may be ratified, as Congress decides, either by three-fourths of the state legislatures or by conventions in three-fourths of the states. To date, the …

The General Assembly And Local Government: Legislating A Constitution 1969-1970, Jack Spain Jr.

University of Richmond Law Review

Counties, cities, towns, sanitary districts and authorities-these are the building blocks of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The operations of these units directly affect the day-to-day activities of every Virginian. The Virginia Constitutional Revision Commission (the Commission), in proposing its recommended changes to the Virginia Constitution of 1902, therefore, considered the area of local government most carefully. Its recommendations contained in Article VII of the proposed Revised Constitution of 1971, set forth in the Commission's Report. When the proposed Constitution was considered by the General Assembly in the special session of 1969 before its final adoption by the General Assembly and …

The Abolition Of Dower In Virginia: The Uniform Probate Code As An Alternative To Proposed Legislation, J. Rodney Johnson

University of Richmond Law Review

Elsewhere in the pages of this issue the reader will find a discussion of some of the more important legislation enacted by the 1972 session of the General Assembly of Virginia.' This article is concerned with one of the bills that did not pass-the bill to abolish dower and curtesy. Why all this concern with a dead bill, especially since the dower problem is one of long standing which has sustained attacks before? The answer is that the forces of opposition have grown stronger each year among Virginia lawyers. The Virginia Advisory Legislative Council has recommended the conversion of dower …