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Legislation-Michigan Veterans' Re-Employment Act, William Andrew Bain, Jr. S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

A recent Michigan statute provides for the re-employment of former employees of the state or the subdivisions thereof who left their positions, voluntarily or involuntarily, for service in the armed forces of the United States and have been honorably discharged. No opinion as to the interpretation or effect of the statute has been rendered by the Michigan courts or by any official state agency, but an examination of the very similar federal statute, and the litigation which it has fostered, indicates that a number of problems may arise. An insight into some typical problems and their possible solutions may be …

Issues Before The 1954 Kentucky Legislature, Gladys M. Kammerer

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Current Decision, Weight And Admissibility Of Chemical Tests As Evidence Of Intoxication, Howard Klemme

Publications

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Ten Probate Codes, Lewis M. Simes

Michigan Law Review

It is the purpose of this article to summarize some of the most important aspects of these codes for the purpose of indicating legislative trends. For the most part, they will be discussed in the chronological order of their enactment. While some of them deal with many other matters besides the law of decedents' estates, such as guardianships and testamentary trusts, this discussion will be limited to the substantive and procedural law of decedents' estates, exclusive of matters of ancillary administration.

Current Trends In State Legislation 1952, University Of Michigan Law School

Michigan Legal Studies Series

The Legislative Research Center of the University of Michigan Law School herewith presents the first of a series of volumes which will, over the years, assume very substantial proportions-a series prepared and published by the Center dealing with current problems of statute law.

A major aspect of the work of the Legislative Research Center involves a continuing study of contemporary trends in state legislation- studies to show where the legislative process is leading us. The present volume on "Current Legislative Trends" is the first in a continuing series of annual or biennial monographs dealing with statute law as it is …

Legislation-Perpetuities-Some Recent Statutory Changes In The Law Of Perpetuities, Thomas L. Waterbury S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

During the past five years the legislatures of several states have wrestled anew with an old problem, that of limiting the permissible duration of indirect restraints upon the alienation of property. Generally speaking, these statutes may be grouped into two classes: those designed to abandon previous statutory modifications of the common law rule against perpetuities and return to the common law rule; and those designed to modify the common law rule or alter existing statutory rules. With respect to the latter group, a further classification is possible between statutes which attempt a general revision of the law as to perpetuities …

The Indiana Annexation Act Of 1949

Indiana Law Journal

Recent Cases: Legislation

Coigne: Statute Making, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of STATUTE MAKING. By Armand B. Coigne.

State Constitutional Conventions And State Legislative Power, Walter F. Dodd

Vanderbilt Law Review

The State of Tennessee faces a serious problem in that it badly needs changes in its Constitution of 1870 and finds it substantially impossible to make such changes by means of proposed amendments by the two houses of its General Assembly. The requirements (1) that legislative proposal be by a majority of all members of the two houses and that it be agreed to by two thirds of the General Assembly then next chosen, and (2) that approval of a proposed amendment be "by a majority of all the citizens of the State, voting for Representatives," ' substantially defeat possibility …

Killingsworth: State Labor Relations Acts, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of STATE LABOR RELATIONS ACTS. By Charles C. Killingsworth.

Evidence- Statutes - Contradiction Of Legislative Journal Entry To Show Date Of Receipt Of Bill By Governor, Emerson T. Chandler

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff, a tax assessor, sought to recover salary claims against a county, contending that compensation was payable under an act passed by the General Assembly but vetoed by the governor. An entry in the House journal reported delivery of the bill to the governor on March 5. The Assembly adjourned March 13, and the governor vetoed the bill March 28. An official receipt dated March 10 had been given for the bill by the governor's office. The Arkansas Constitution gives the governor five days within which to approve or disapprove the bill. If he fails to act, the bill becomes …

The Use Of Extrinsic Aids In Statutory Interpretation In Kentucky, William H. Coldiron

Kentucky Law Journal

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Sunday Laws-Illegality Of Sunday Contracts, Robert O. Hancox S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

The concept of the Sabbath, the setting apart of one day in seven as a day of rest, was derived from the Mosaic code, the Fourth Commandment directs abstention from labor on the seventh day of the week, and although there is nothing in the New Testament relating to Sunday, the Christian world adopted the first day of the week as a day of rest. Constantine, by an edict in 321 A.D., ordered the suspension on Sunday of all business in the courts of law, except the manumission of slaves, and all other- business except agricultural labor.

Administrative Law-Developments: 1940-1945 (A Service For Returning Veterans), E. Blythe Stason

Michigan Law Review

No period in American history has ushered in more sweeping changes in the legal structure than has the last decade and a half. No area of the law has witnessed more rapid development than has administrative law. A sketch of the progress of administrative law during the five-year period 1940 to 1945 reveals an important refining of the "quasi judicial" procedures--procedures which, because of their swift and topsy-turvy growth, can well use a little refining.

The purpose of the following survey is two-fold; first, to outline the more significant developments of the last half decade, relating the new materials to …

New Legislation Affecting Non-Notification Financing Of Accounts Receivable, Maximilian Koessler

Michigan Law Review

Not less than sixteen new statutes affecting the assignment of accounts receivable have been enacted in this country since the writer's completion of an essay in which he attempted to draw an all-round picture of the legal situation in this recently so much debated field. It is one of the purposes of the present follow-up study to discuss those new legislative developments. This will be done in part II of this article, where the analysis is subdivided into a contemplation of the new validation statutes on the one hand, and the new recording acts, on the other.

Some Quantitative Aspects Of Legislation In Kentucky, Rodman Sullivan

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Perry-Decatur Boundary Dispute

Indiana Law Journal

Legislation Note

Congressional Enactment Of Uniform Judicial Notice Act, Lawrence E. Hartwig

Michigan Law Review

The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform Laws approved in 1936 the Uniform Judicial Notice of Foreign Law Act, which has since been adopted by fourteen states. This act was drafted to make uniform a legislative movement of the past twelve years proposing to change two rules of the common law. One is the rule that a state court will not notice the law of sister states in the United States; and the other is the rule that the determination of such law shall be made by the jury and not by the judge. Accordingly, the Uniform Act provides (1) …

The Scope Of West Virginia Legitimatizing Statutes, A. L. B.

West Virginia Law Review

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Courts Rule - Making Power, Peter S. Boter

Michigan Law Review

A statute of the State of New Mexico delegated to the supreme court of the state the power to promulgate rules regulating pleading, practice, and procedure in judicial proceedings for the purpose of simplifying the same and for the promotion of the speedy determination of litigation upon the merits. The act further provides that all statutes relating to pleading and practice now in force shall have effect only as rules of court and remain in effect as such unless modified or suspended by rules promulgated pursuant to this Act. Held, that the rule-making power can constitutionally be delegated to …

The Problem Of Transfers Under Bulk Sales Laws: A Study Of Absolute Transfers And Liquidating Trusts, Thomas Clifford Billig, William L. Branch Jr.

Michigan Law Review

Although the first bulk sales law in the United States was enacted more than forty years ago, the host of decisions still emanating from the courts bears ample witness to the fact that this field of legal learning remains remarkably fertile. For the first decade following the original Louisiana Bulk Sales Act of 1894 the several state legislatures were busily engaged in passing statutes of similar import. During the next three decades the courts became as fully occupied as had been the legislatures in determining precisely what the legislatures meant by the language employed in the several acts. This process …

Revenue Financing Of Public Enterprises, E. H. Foley Jr.

Michigan Law Review

Courts have been slow to take judicial notice of the growing needs of local communities. Legislatures have restrained municipal corporations from engaging in business enterprises upon the assumption that the object was mere hope of gain, that the investment of municipal funds in such enterprises was simply a speculation, or that the effect was to divert municipal corporations from their legitimate ends and to poach upon the preserves of private enterprise. Novel municipal undertakings have been feared as an entering wedge of state socialism or governmental paternalism. Even when the instrumentality of private adventure was disposed to leave a need …

Special And Local Legislation, Lyman H. Cloe, Sumner Marcus

Kentucky Law Journal

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Legislative Attack On "Heart Balm", Nathan P. Feinsinger

Michigan Law Review

Public resentment over the abuses incident to "heart balm" suits has recently culminated in sweeping legislative reform. Through the repeated efforts of a woman legislator, Indiana has abolished actions for seduction of females over twenty-one years of age, for breach of promise to marry, and for criminal conversation and alienation of affections. Almost immediately New York, and shortly thereafter Illinois, passed similar legislation, and at least ten other states are now considering analogous proposals.

Special Legislation In West Virginia, Donald F. Black, George W. Mcquain

West Virginia Law Review

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Garnishment Of Public Corporations, Jeff B. Fordham

West Virginia Law Review

The notion that garnishment of public corporations is against public policy early took root in the minds of American judges. The history of the subject is an interesting commentary on the growth of our law. The policy objection, based principally on the avoidance of inconvenience to public administration, has been accorded wide judicial acceptance with only occasional reconsideration on the merits. Stare decisis and that characteristic, but for the most part commendable, conservatism of bench and bar have done their part to entrench the doctrine. Judicial revolt against it, which has occurred largely in cases involving municipalities, has made only …

Constitutional Limitations On Legislative Procedure In West Virginia, Frank Edward Horack Jr.

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Book Review. State Legislative Committees By C. I. Winslow, Frank Edward Horack Jr.

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Congressional Redistricting And The Constitution, Harold M. Bowman

Michigan Law Review

Is congressional redistricting by state legislatures an exercise of the lawmaking function, subject to the governor's veto power? Is fairness in such redistricting secured today either by federal statute or by the federal Constitution? Of these two questions, posed by recent events, the first has been completely answered; the second has been answered in part only -- breeding in its answer new and troublesome problems.

Legislation--Bar Committee Appointed To Report Formal Errors In Revised Code, James W. Simonton

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.