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Full-Text Articles in State and Local Government Law
Alienability Of Future Interests In Tennessee, Ernest C. Matthews, Iii
Alienability Of Future Interests In Tennessee, Ernest C. Matthews, Iii
Vanderbilt Law Review
One of the most technical problems in the field of property law is the manner in which future interests in realty and personalty may be alienated. The term, future interest, is used here to mean a presently existing interest which is deprived of possession but which looks forward to possession in the future. The term is a misnomer. Such an interest is "future" only in the sense that it looks toward becoming possessory in the future. Just as future interests is a law of words, so the alienability of future interests is, in the absence of statute, a law of …
Constitutionality Of Marketable Title Acts, Ralph W. Aigler
Constitutionality Of Marketable Title Acts, Ralph W. Aigler
Michigan Law Review
In recent years several states in that part of the United States commonly identified as the "Middle West" have enacted comprehensive legislation that is hoped will simplify land title transactions. These statutes, though varying in detail, have a common objective-the extinguishment in favor of certain persons of claims against, and interests in, land, which claims and interests arose out of events and transactions that occurred many years ago, unless such claims or interests have been preserved by the recording of a preserving notice within that period of time. A comparatively short period is prescribed for such recording as to old …
Municipal Corporations-Zoning-Limitations On The Power To Lift Zoning Restrictions, Allan Neef S.Ed.
Municipal Corporations-Zoning-Limitations On The Power To Lift Zoning Restrictions, Allan Neef S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
A declaratory judgment proceeding was brought by persons owning property within a small-unit residential zone to determine the validity of a rezoning amendment relaxing the restrictions upon one block located ·within the zone. The change was designed to allow the construction of large apartment houses, containing some inside commercial establishments, in an area formerly restricted to family units of less than seven apartments. The entire area, with the exception of the island created by the rezoned block, was restricted to the smaller types of residential units, and was predominantly made up of single family residences. On appeal from a judgment …
Municipal Corporations-Zoning-Right Of Grantee To Act On Variance Issued To His Grantor, Herbert N. Weingarten
Municipal Corporations-Zoning-Right Of Grantee To Act On Variance Issued To His Grantor, Herbert N. Weingarten
Michigan Law Review
A zoning ordinance prohibited the erection of private garages within twenty feet of the street line. Because of the peculiar shape of the lot in question, a variance was granted to the then owner permitting the building of a garage closer to the street line. However, before the garage was built, the land was sold to the present owner who obtained a building permit and began construction. Plaintiffs, owners of the adjoining lot, objected to the granting of the permit and appealed to the zoning board of review which denied their appeal. On certiorari, held, present owner might act …
Municipal Corporations-Zoning-Abrogation Of Private Restrictive Covenants By Zoning Regulations, Robert Dilts
Municipal Corporations-Zoning-Abrogation Of Private Restrictive Covenants By Zoning Regulations, Robert Dilts
Michigan Law Review
A recent New Jersey decision raises a question of current importance in view of the acute housing shortages in many metropolitan areas. Can a municipality, acting under its power to establish zoning regulations, authorize the construction of multiple-family dwellings in a particular area and simultaneously abrogate private covenants which restrict the area to single-family dwellings?
Corporations-Restrictions On Holding Real Estate-Lnterpretation Of Michigan's Constitutional Restriction, W. M. Myers
Corporations-Restrictions On Holding Real Estate-Lnterpretation Of Michigan's Constitutional Restriction, W. M. Myers
Michigan Law Review
While it is now well settled that a corporation has the power to acquire and hold real estate, this power may be limited by the charter creating the corporation, by legislative enactments of a general nature, or by specific constitutional provisions. When such a limitation is imposed by constitution, a problem of construction arises in interpreting it in a workable way after the social conditions motivating it have changed or disappeared.
Real Property-Rights In Land-Construction Of Restrictive Covenants, Donald D. Davis
Real Property-Rights In Land-Construction Of Restrictive Covenants, Donald D. Davis
Michigan Law Review
Excepting a small area set aside for business purposes, the deeds conveying more than 1300 lots in the University Heights addition of the City of Albuquerque contained restrictive covenants, the part here involved providing "no building other than dwelling houses . . . to be erected . . . . [N]or shall any building erected on said lots be used . . . for any other purpose than as private dwelling places." Plaintiff, a lot owner in the addition who used his lot as a residence, sought to enjoin defendant's use of two of the restricted lots for parking automobiles …
Some Problems In Special Assessment District Obligations, Irvin Long
Some Problems In Special Assessment District Obligations, Irvin Long
Michigan Law Review
The question of the jurisdiction of a board or officer authorized to construct a local improvement and levy special assessments therefor has always been troublesome, and is particularly so when bonds or other obligations are issued in anticipation of the collection of such assessments. A vast amount of litigation has occurred in Michigan in recent years over drain district assessments, and bonds which such districts have issued. While this is of primary interest to Michigan lawyers and investors in public securities, many of the questions involved seem to be of such a general nature, so far as special assessment procedure …
The Constitutionality Of Certain Indirect Approaches To Raising The Assessment Level, Elvis J. Stahr Jr.
The Constitutionality Of Certain Indirect Approaches To Raising The Assessment Level, Elvis J. Stahr Jr.
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Some Income Tax Aspects Of Community Property Law, Paul R. Trigg, Jr.
Some Income Tax Aspects Of Community Property Law, Paul R. Trigg, Jr.
Michigan Law Review
The recent enactment of community property law in Michigan and other states has created new problems for lawyers. Not the least of these is the question of the income tax consequences which flow from the existence of a community between the spouses. Nor is this the type of problem which can be shrugged off by reference to tax counsel. Local community property law and federal .income tax law are too closely enmeshed to be intelligently divided. No authority is needed for the statement that recently enacted community property laws are a product of high surtaxes. At the same time, these …
Municipal Corporations-Validity Of "Piecemeal" Zoning As Applied To Building Under Construction, Robert J. Walsh S.Ed.
Municipal Corporations-Validity Of "Piecemeal" Zoning As Applied To Building Under Construction, Robert J. Walsh S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
Shortly after plaintiff obtained a building permit and commenced work on the excavation for a laundry and dry-cleaning plant in an unzoned section of the City of Huntsville, the city adopted a new zoning ordinance which limited to residential uses an area of approximately two blocks in which plaintiff's property was situated. On appeal from a decree dismissing a bill to enjoin enforcement of the new zoning ordinance, held, reversed. Since the enabling statute required that zoning regulations should be adopted in accordance with a comprehensive plan, an ordinance which did not zone the whole municipality was void. Johnson …
Mortgages On After-Acquired Property In Kentucky, W. E. Francis
Mortgages On After-Acquired Property In Kentucky, W. E. Francis
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Municipal Corporations--Regulation Of House Trailers Under Building Code As Permanent Dwellings, John W. Potter S.Ed.
Municipal Corporations--Regulation Of House Trailers Under Building Code As Permanent Dwellings, John W. Potter S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
An ordinance of the township in which defendant maintained a trailer camp defined a house trailer as any vehicle used for living or sleeping purposes, and provided that any house trailer so used within the township for an aggregate of more than thirty days in a period of one year should be considered a single family dwelling for all purposes of the building code. Many trailers in defendant's camp rested on boxes or jacks, and they had been used as dwellings for several years. While all trailers were connected with water and electric lines and provided with communal lavatory and …
Clearance Of Land Titles-A Statutory Step, Ralph W. Aigler
Clearance Of Land Titles-A Statutory Step, Ralph W. Aigler
Michigan Law Review
Public Act of Michigan, No. 200, was approved by the governor on May 17, 1945. Its preparation and enactment are the result of a growing urge for the amelioration of certain conditions in land title transactions.
The Present Status Of "Illusory" Trusts-The Doctrine On Newman V. Dore Brought Down To Date, Edward A. Smith
The Present Status Of "Illusory" Trusts-The Doctrine On Newman V. Dore Brought Down To Date, Edward A. Smith
Michigan Law Review
It has long been the policy of the law to provide for a widow by setting aside some portion of her deceased husband's estate for her future support. Such a policy, it has been said, dates back to the laws of Hammurabi and later evidences of it may. be found in the Justinian Code of the Roman Law, and in English law from the earliest times; its final manifestation being in the well-known common law dower. It is not with dower, however, that we are here concerned, for that institution is sufficiently well understood to require no discussion in this …
Deeds - Effect Of Noncompliance With Statute Requiring Grantor To Set Forth In Deed Name Under Which He Derived Title, Mary Jane Morris
Deeds - Effect Of Noncompliance With Statute Requiring Grantor To Set Forth In Deed Name Under Which He Derived Title, Mary Jane Morris
Michigan Law Review
In a suit between plaintiff and defendant Girola Bros., plaintiff obtained a judgment and levied upon certain property. Plaintiff purchased the land at an execution sale and recorded the sheriff's deed conveying the property to him. Prior to the commencement of the action, defendant Girola Bros. had changed its name to Madalay, Inc., and under the latter name had conveyed the property, subsequently levied on by plaintiff, to defendant M. Girola, pending the action by plaintiff. This deed was recorded. It set forth Madalay, Inc., as grantor, but failed to set forth the name in which Madalay, Inc., derived title …
Unity Plan In Dedication Of Ways, G. S. B.
Unity Plan In Dedication Of Ways, G. S. B.
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Municipal Corporations - Waters And Watercourses - Eminent Domain - Pollution Of Water As A "Taking" Of Private Property, Brooks F. Crabtree
Municipal Corporations - Waters And Watercourses - Eminent Domain - Pollution Of Water As A "Taking" Of Private Property, Brooks F. Crabtree
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff sued defendant city for damages caused his land by the continual discharge of raw sewage into the river about one-half mile above plaintiff's land. The pollution rendered the water of the river unfit for domestic use and deleterious to health. Held, that although the plaintiff failed to allege the necessary elements for a tort action against a municipality, under the Washington statute, he stated a valid cause of action for damages under article I, section 16 of the Washington Constitution which states that "No private property shall be taken or damaged for public or private use without just …
Municipal Corporations - Zoning Ordinances - Aesthetic Considerations Under The Police Power, Charles J. O' Laughlin
Municipal Corporations - Zoning Ordinances - Aesthetic Considerations Under The Police Power, Charles J. O' Laughlin
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff brought suit to enjoin the enforcement of the zoning laws of the city of Miami Beach. His property was in a zone reserved for apartment hotels and first-class family residences, but adjacent to an area in which business structures were allowed. Plaintiff sought to erect structures of a business character on his property, despite the zoning law. Held, the zoning law is sustained, for plaintiff's property rights must yield to the interest of the community in maintaining the attractiveness of this resort area. City of Miami Beach v. Ocean & Inland Co., (Fla. 1941) 3 So. (2d) …
Taxation - Tax Delinquent Lands - The Michigan Land Board Act As A Solution To The Delinquency Problem, Rex B. Martin
Taxation - Tax Delinquent Lands - The Michigan Land Board Act As A Solution To The Delinquency Problem, Rex B. Martin
Michigan Law Review
Nearly all states have been faced with the increasingly difficult problem of what to do with the growing volume of tax delinquent land which has been thrown upon their hands. As a typical example of the financial aspects of this problem, Michigan in 1928 had over $25,000,000 worth of delinquent taxes on 8,757,000 acres of property. In 1932 this acreage was estimated at 15,660,000. By 1937 the unpaid taxes in some of Michigan's counties exceeded five times the assessed value of the delinquent properties. Much of the property could not be sold for the amount of taxes owed, and the …
Constitutional Law- Eminent Domain - Power Of State To Condemn Land For Low-Cost Housing And Transfer To The United States, Oscar Freedenberg
Constitutional Law- Eminent Domain - Power Of State To Condemn Land For Low-Cost Housing And Transfer To The United States, Oscar Freedenberg
Michigan Law Review
Public low-cost housing legislation on a national scale in this country began with title II, section 202 of the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933, which authorized the administrator to embark upon a program for "construction, reconstruction, alteration, or repair under public regulation or control of low-cost housing and slum-clearance projects." But soon thereafter, in United States v. Certain Lands in the City of Louisville, a majority of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit decided that the N.I.R.A. was unconstitutional so far as it attempted to authorize the condemnation of land by the United …
Interpretation Of Kentucky Statutes Concerning Division Fences, Harry W. Roberts Jr.
Interpretation Of Kentucky Statutes Concerning Division Fences, Harry W. Roberts Jr.
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Eminent Domain - Covenants - Violation Of Building Restrictions By Exercise Of Public Authority - Necessity For Compensation, Edmund R. Blaske
Eminent Domain - Covenants - Violation Of Building Restrictions By Exercise Of Public Authority - Necessity For Compensation, Edmund R. Blaske
Michigan Law Review
It is the purpose of this comment to examine the contract and the property theories of restrictive covenants; and to suggest other possible grounds upon which to decide whether or not a public agency should compensate owners in the subdivision for interference with their restrictive covenants.
Sale Of Land For Taxes In Kentucky, Earl S. Wilson
Sale Of Land For Taxes In Kentucky, Earl S. Wilson
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Constitutional Law - Municipal Corporations - Delegation Of Power - Consent Of Adjoining Property Owners - Reasonableness Of Restriction On The Use Of Property., Michigan Law Review
Constitutional Law - Municipal Corporations - Delegation Of Power - Consent Of Adjoining Property Owners - Reasonableness Of Restriction On The Use Of Property., Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
An ordinance of the city of Detroit regulated trailer camps in part by requiring the consent of sixty-five per cent of the adjoining property owners before a permit would issue, and by forbidding the parking of occupied trailers in any camp or camps for more than ninety accumulated days in any twelve-months' period. Plaintiff camp owner sought to restrain enforcement of the restrictions. Held, that as to both the consent and the ninety-day provisions, the ordinance is a valid and reasonable exercise of the police power. Cady v. City of Detroit, 289 Mich. 499, 286 N. W. 805 …
Zoning - Municipal Corporations - Due Process - Restrictions On Power To Change Zoning Plan Previously Adopted, Edmund R. Blaske
Zoning - Municipal Corporations - Due Process - Restrictions On Power To Change Zoning Plan Previously Adopted, Edmund R. Blaske
Michigan Law Review
The plaintiff owned several lots in a subdivision which the defendant city changed from a class "B" residence district to a class "C" residence district. In an action for a declaratory judgment the plaintiff asked the court to pronounce the amendment making pie change void. The declaration contained the following allegations: that there was already sufficient undeveloped class "C" property to satisfy present and future building needs; that the change was made at the instance of private persons, for their benefit, and not in the public interest; that the new classification would decrease the value and enjoyment of the plaintiff's …
Zoning - Police Power - Will Change In Conditions Make Zoning Restrictions Invalid?, Edmund R. Blaske
Zoning - Police Power - Will Change In Conditions Make Zoning Restrictions Invalid?, Edmund R. Blaske
Michigan Law Review
Desiring to operate a restaurant on his land, plaintiff petitioned the city trustees of Sunnyvale to rezone his property by taking it out of the residential district and adding it to the adjacent industrial district. After denial of his petitions, plaintiff brought this suit in which he sought a judgment declaring the zoning ordinance void as to his property. Reversing the lower court's judgment in favor of the city, the supreme court held, that because conditions had changed since the enactment of the ordinance, it was void as to plaintiff's property. Skalko V. City of Sunnyvale, (Cal. 1939) …
Necessity For Compensation For Violation Of A Restrictive Covenant In An Eminent Domain Proceeding, Wayne C. Booth
Necessity For Compensation For Violation Of A Restrictive Covenant In An Eminent Domain Proceeding, Wayne C. Booth
Washington Law Review
In eminent domain proceedings where the state or a repository of state power seeks to use land within a restricted residence area for a purpose not consistent with the restrictive covenants, recovery of compensation by adjacent owners in the subdivision for this violation seems dependent upon whether the interest created by the covenants in the adjacent owners is a "property right". If it is a property right it can not under most state and the federal constitutions be taken by eminent domain unless compensation is made.' On the other hand, if the interest be not "property" no compensation need be …
Zoning - Construction Of Ordinance Restricting District To Residences - Rooming House As Business, S. R. Stroud
Zoning - Construction Of Ordinance Restricting District To Residences - Rooming House As Business, S. R. Stroud
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff purchased the property in question on January 26, 1934. The property was subject to restrictive covenants, running with the land until January 26, 1930, which prohibited use for "any trade or business whatsoever or any boarding house." On August 18, 1922, a temporary zoning ordinance of the city of Long Beach was adopted to retain the advantages secured by the restrictive covenants. This was followed by a permanent zoning ordinance on July 8, 1930. Under the permanent zoning ordinance the property in question was included in "Residence A" district which was restricted to "a one family detached house for …
Automobiles - Registration Of Title And Transfer - Effect On Ownership, Gerald M. Stevens
Automobiles - Registration Of Title And Transfer - Effect On Ownership, Gerald M. Stevens
Michigan Law Review
Who owns this automobile? is a question of frequent interest both to the state and to its citizens. Identification of it and its owner may be a leading clue to the solution of crime; its owner must often be apprehended as the first step toward punishment of one of the considerable list of offenses peculiar to the operation of motor vehicles; it constitutes an important item of taxable property. The private citizen is interested in its ownership to identify the proper defendant in his tort action; it is an obvious source of satisfaction of his claim against a debtor; or …