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Involuntary Psychiatry In Nova Scotia: The Review Board Reports (1979-1983) And Recent Proposals For Legislative Change, H Archibald Kaiser

Dalhousie Law Journal

The Nova Scotia Psychiatric Facilities Review Board, appointed under s. 53 of the Hospitals Act1, fulfils many vital functions affecting the treatment and liberty of the patient involuntarily confined in the psychiatric hospitals of the Province.2 Although its proceedings are held in camera,3 the Board fortunately publishes an Annual Report which is tabled in the House of Assembly.4 Neither lay persons aor lawyers are likely to scrutinize these documents and this Comment is intended in part to redress this regrettable disregard as well as to offer some critical remarks. They contain material which will both hearten and disturb the reader, …

Family Responsibilty Under The American Poor Laws: Ii, Daniel R. Mandelker

Michigan Law Review

No substantive statutory provision fulfills the purpose for which it was enacted unless fair and efficient procedures are provided for its enforcement. Under the Elizabethan family responsibility law, enforcement was confined to the parish justices of the peace, who at that time exercised both administrative and judicial functions. The blending of administrative and judicial functions no longer being the rule in American local government, practically all of the American family responsibility statutes provide for some judicial procedure by which the support duty may be enforced. The basic issue with which the courts have been concerned in applying these statutory remedies …

Family Responsibilty Under The American Poor Laws: I, Daniel R. Mandelker

Michigan Law Review

Ever since the enactment of the statute quoted above, first passed in 1597 as part of the original Elizabethan Poor Law, the concept of family responsibility has been linked with the public relief of the poor. Today, more than three-and-a-half centuries later, the basic, residual program of poor relief has survived in the statutes of every American jurisdiction, and practically all the states still have family responsibility provisions based on the English model. Although some jurisdictions have abandoned the family responsibility requirement, the tendency in recent years seems to be toward strengthening the law where it exists.

In spite of …

Descent And Distribution - Intestate Succession From An Adopted Child - Who Aim His "Brothers And Sisters", Jack G. Armstrong

Michigan Law Review

Decedent had never married and was predeceased by his natural and adopted parents. The California statute provided that in such a case his property would go to his brothers and sisters. Appellant, the natural daughter of decedent's adopted parents, contended that she was his sole heir under this statute, while respondent, decedent's natural brother, argued that the term ''brothers and sisters" meant blood relatives. The superior court applied the common meaning of the words brothers and sisters and held that appellant was not such a person. On appeal, held, reversed. Since the entire pattern of the California code indicates …

Justice Murphy And The Welfare Question, Leo Weiss

Michigan Law Review

In 1941, an Italian law professor arrived in the United States to make his home here. Born in Russia during Czarist days, he was educated in Austria, England, and Italy, finally settling there and becoming a citizen. A member of the Italian bar and teacher of law at the Universities of Florence and Rome, he found himself in 1939 unwanted in his adopted homeland. He went to France, where he practiced law until coming to this country. In New York City he joined the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, remaining in that post for five years, …

Soonavala: Advocacy, Its Principles And Practice, Charles W. Joiner

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Advocacy, Its Principles and Practice. By R. K. Soonavala

The Rule Of Law And The Modern Social Welfare State, Roscoe Pound

Vanderbilt Law Review

Professor Friedmann, who had already made a notable contribution to jurisprudence in his Legal Theory, now in its second edition, has now made a second and perhaps even more notable contribution toward understanding the role and presaging the future of the common law system in the society of today. His purpose is a reassessment of the function of law and of legal institutions in England a half century after Dicey's Law and Public Opinion in England during the Nineteenth Century, comparing the economic function of law and how the common law was adapted to it in the nineteenth century with …

Social Legislation, John B. Sholley

Washington Law Review

Covers compensation for civil defense workers, public assistance, unemployment compensation, and workmen's compensation.

Law And Social Change In Contemporary Britain, By Wolfgang G. Friedmann, Stefan A. Riesenfeld

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Unemployment Compensation—Quitting Work For Good Cause—Question Of Law Or Fact, Thomas E. Smail. Jr.

Washington Law Review

A was working on an "inside job" for $1.63 per hour plus $.10 for working the second shift when he was told that he was to be transferred to an "outside job" at $1.43 per hour without an opportunity for the shift differential. A refused to accept the transfer and quit work. When making application for unemployment benefits, A signed a statement which read in part, "I quit mainly because I was transferred to an outside job. I had been ill last winter and did not want to work outside again.... However I would have stayed on the job had …

Child Welfare Legislation, Gladys M. Kammerer

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Public Assistance, H. E. Wetzel

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Proposición De Ley De Pago Total De Adeudos A Los Miembros Del Ejército Libertador, Su Cuerpo Auxiliar Civil Y Sus Familiares Pensionados, Y De Emisión De Bonos Para Ese Pago, Pedro Martínez Fraga

Mario Diaz Cruz Pamphlets

Sometida a la consideración y aprobación de la Cámara de Representantes por Dr. Pedro Martínez Fraga, representante por Las Villas y Presidente del Seguro del Congreso.

At head of title: República de Cuba. Cámara de Representantes.

The Interpretation Of Statutes In Modern British Law, W. Friedmann

Vanderbilt Law Review

Mr. Justice Frankfurter recently said that the number of cases coming before the Supreme Court of the United States which were not based on statutes was "reduced almost to zero." This growth of statutory as against pure case law is, of course, not confined to the United States. It inevitably accompanies the social welfare state and the increase in government which every modern industrial society has experienced and which two world wars, with their need for the total mobilization of resources, have further stimulated. Apart from these sociological factors which affect states with the most different legal systems, it is …

Child Welfare And Public Assistance, H. E. Wetzel, Elwood Rosenbaum

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Employment Security Program (With Special Reference To Tennessee Unemployment Insurance), E.J. Eberling

Vanderbilt Law Review

Employment security was one of the major programs for which provision was made in the Social Security Act of 1935. Under its terms a tax program was instituted which encouraged the states to enact unemployment insurance laws and expand their employment services. The Act imposed a federal tax on the payrolls of subject employers against which such employers were permitted to offset the major part of the taxes which they paid under state unemployment insurance laws. Since employers in states which did not enact appropriate insurance laws were liable for the full federal tax, the states acted speedily to set …

Public Welfare

Indiana Law Journal

Indiana Legislation, 1947

Recent Developments In The Washington Old Age Assistance Program, Vern Countryman

Washington Law Review

More than 60,000 persons over 65 years of age in the State of Washington now receive old age assistance totaling in excess of $3,500,000 per month. With the progressive advancement of life expectancy and the decline of employment opportunities for the aged in the postwar years, these figures can be expected to increase until by 1950 more than 75,000 aged persons in this state will receive assistance which, under present standards, will approximate $5,000,000 per month. Administration of this huge program of public assistance has been carried out under laws which are models of benevolent purpose and obscure meaning.

Case Work With The Adult Offender, By David Dressier

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Medical And Social Factors In Crime, A. Warren Stearns

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Social Security To Men In Service

Indiana Law Journal

Legal Aspects of the Selective Service Act

Litigation Problems Under The Social Security Act, Jack B. Tate

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Judicial Review Of Public Assistance Determinations, Hubert H. Margolies

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Old Age Assistance In Washington, Vern Countryman

Washington Law Review

Two decades ago, recognition of a governmental duty to care for the aged who had no means of support had gone no further than to provide for their maintenance in almshouses and poor farms. But in 1922 the American Association for Labor Legislation and the Fraternal Order of Eagles began a campaign to abolish the poorhouse system and to substitute for it a proposed Old Age Pension Act providing for monthly grants to needy aged persons from funds to be raised by county governments. Washington adopted this act in 1933 and by the end of the following year 28 states …

Administrative Law - Separation Of Powers - Delegation Of Executive Functions To The Judiciary, Collins E. Brooks

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff applied to the county board of public welfare for a pension award under a state Old Age Assistance Act. In conformity to the act, an investigation was made by the county board and the facts were submitted, with a recommendation for an award, to the State Department of Public Welfare for approval. The latter, however, overruled the award, whereupon plaintiff applied to the circuit court for a trial de novo, as provided for by the statute, and was successful. On appeal from the court's order allowing the award, held, the statutory provision for a de novo review by …

Federal-State Cooperation For Social Security: The Grant-In-Aid, Frank Edward Horack Jr.

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Folleto Contentivo Del Estudio Comparativo Y Crítico De La Legislación Vigente En Orden Al Trabajo Y Previsión Social, Francisco A. Couceiro

Mario Diaz Cruz Pamphlets

No abstract provided.

Book Review. The General Welfare Clause: A Study Of The Power Of Congress Under The Constitution Of The United States By J. F. Lawson, Frank Edward Horack Jr.

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Workmen's Compensation-Right Of Dole Employee To Compensation

Michigan Law Review

The plaintiff, a citizen on the relief rolls of the defendant city, was put to work in accordance with a scrip relief plan under which persons receiving aid were "required" to work if they were able. They were paid a stipulated amount of script per hour, which was exchangeable for goods at the city store. The plaintiff was injured while using a wheelbarrow in line of duty in so working in the city park, and claimed the right to workmen's compensation under the statute as an employee of the city. The court held, by a five-to-three division, that the …

Sobre Las Leyes De Retiro Y Jubilación., Santiago Gutiérrez De Celis

Mario Diaz Cruz Pamphlets

Publicado en la Revista La Jurisprudencia al Día.