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Personal Property-United States Savings Bonds--Effect Of Registration In Co-Ownership Or Beneficiary Form As A Transfer Of A Property Interest Therein, Walter L. Dean May 1950

Personal Property-United States Savings Bonds--Effect Of Registration In Co-Ownership Or Beneficiary Form As A Transfer Of A Property Interest Therein, Walter L. Dean

Michigan Law Review

In two recent cases, decedents purchased United States Savings Bonds registered in the name of the purchaser and another person which were never delivered to the named co-owner but remained in the possession of the purchaser until his death. In the first case, on appeal from an order of the district court refusing to impose an inheritance tax on the bonds after the death of the purchaser, held, reversed. Mere purchase of the bonds and their registration in the names of the co-owners without delivery transferred no interest to the co-owners during the life of the purchaser and is …


Jurisdiction For The Purpose Of Imposing Inheritance Taxes, David R. Mason Jan 1931

Jurisdiction For The Purpose Of Imposing Inheritance Taxes, David R. Mason

Michigan Law Review

For nearly half a century so-called inheritance tax laws of the states of the United States have been predicated upon two distinct theories of jurisdiction, many states embodying both theories into their statutes. Recent decisions rendered by the Supreme Court of the United States, however, challenge the constitutionality of such a scheme and indicate the expediency of a review of the extent of state jurisdiction for the purpose of imposing such taxes.