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Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review
Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A New Instance of the Power of Congress to Destroy by Taxation; Pleading Contributory Negligence Under the Code; Presumptions as to Delivery of Deeds; Jurisdiction of Equity to Restrain Threatened to Wrong; The Power of Courts to Allow Amendments Under the Common Law and Code Procedure; Situs of Debts; The Time Limit for Presentations of Railroad Tickets
The Liability Of Water Companies For Fire Losses, Edson R. Sunderland
The Liability Of Water Companies For Fire Losses, Edson R. Sunderland
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It is a general principle, of very wide application, that a municipal corporation, in the absence of a statute, is not obliged to undertake the execution of governmental functions respecting the health, peace or property of its citizens. Nor is such corporation liable for the insufficient or negligent execution of such functions in case it undertakes to perform them. The ground of this exemption is that the municipality, in these matters, exercises discretionary powers conferred upon it by the state, and acts, not for itself in its corporate capacity, but for the general public as an agent of the central …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Acknowledgement--Who May Take--Competency Affected by Interest; Acknowledgement of Mortgage before Stockholder in Mortgage Corporation--Stockholder as Witness; Agency--Distinguished from Trust; Agency or Service--Telegraph Companies--Knowledge of Operator; Carrier--Refusal of Passenger to Pay Extra Fare--Assault by Conductor on Passenger While Enforcing the Company's Rules; Constitutional Law--Free Speech--Distribution of Circulars; Constitutional Law--Master and Servant--Weekly Payment of Wages; Constitutional Law--Municipal Corporations--Minimum Wage Law; Corporations--Partnership with an Individual; Corporations--Ultra Vires--Replevin Undertaking; Deed--Consideration--Bona Fide Purchaser; Eminent Domain--Appropriation of Railroad Property--compensation; Fraudulent Conveyances--Fraud on Creditors--Withholding Mortgage from Record; Fraudulent Conveyances--Loan by Wife to Husband; Garnishment--Rolling Stock--Rights of Garnishee; Guardian and Ward--Testamentary Guardian; Insurance--Pleading--Waiver--Failure of Notice and Proof--General and …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Agency--Authority to Appoint Sub-Agents; Agency--right to Compensation; Bankruptcy--Discharge; Bankruptcy--Discharge; Banks and Banking--Crediting Depositor--Check of Another Depositor; Conflict of Laws--Legitimation of a Bastard--Status Fixed by Domicile of his Parents; Conflict of Laws--Lex Loci Fori--Right of Action in England for Acts in Foreign Country--Territorial Waters; Constitutional Law--Summary Sale of Trespassing Animals; Contract--Public Policy--General Restraint of Trade; Contract--Validity--Release of Employer for Liability to next of Kin for Injury to Employee; Elections--Right of a Party Committee to Question Eligibility of a Candidate; Fraudulent Conveyances--Contingent Fees; Insurance--Condition for Immediate Notice--Excuse; Married Women--Power to Enter into Partnership with Husband--Set off of Debt Due by Partner in …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Agency--Action by Undisclosed Principal; Agency--Authority to Sell Land--Notice of Revocation by Record; Agency--Good Faith--Commissions; Bankruptcy--Intent of Insolvent; Carriers--Damages for Loss of Market--Carriage of Goods Destined for Enegies--Seizure of Ships; Constitutional Law--Cigarettes--Original Package; Constitutional Law--Municipal Corporations--Validity of Ordinance Requiring Union Label; Constitutional Law--Vested Rights--Alimony; Contract--Rescission as Affecting Rights of a Stranger to the Consideration; Contract--Public Policy--Agreement to ASsist Attorney to Secure Clients; Courts--contempt--Publication of Evidence in Newspapers; Criminal law--burglary--Sufficient Breaking; Criminal Law--Embezzlement; Damages--Exemplary--Parol License--Revocable--Trespass; Damages--Reversing Judgment for Defendant in Order to Give Plaintiff Nominal Damages; Deeds--Grantees--Constructions; Deeds--Reservation--Construction--Extent of Property; Deeds--Reservation--effectin Equity--Implied Trust; Fraudulent Conveyance--Who are Creditors--claimant in Tort Action; Highways--Street Car …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Agency--Nature of Relation--Distinguished from Lease; Bankruptcy--discharge--Judgment Recovered for Alienation of Affections; Banks and Banking--Savings Banks--Pass Books--Payment to Wrong Party--By-Law; Carriers--Passenger Ejected at Wrong Place--Sickness Caused by Act of Carrier; Conflict of Laws--foreign Trustees--Right to Sue; Constitutional Law--Insterstate Commerce--Tax on a Delivering Agent; contracts--Labor Union--Inducing Employer to Break Contracts; Contracts--Validity of Insurance--Property of Alien Enemy--Public Policy; Corporation--Service of Process on Agent; Descent and Distribution--To Illegitimates on the Part of their Mother; Evidence--Defective Sidewalk--Jury--Magnifying Glass; Executors and Administrators--Enforcement of Claims--Limitations; Fraudulent Conveyances--Creditor's Right to Subject Wife's Property to Payment for Improvements Made Thereon by Husband; Fraudulent Conveyances--Personal Liability of Wife for Property …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Agency--Liability of Principal for Money coming into his Possession as Proceeds of Wrongful Sale of His Property by his Agent to Plaintiff; Appeal--Effect upon Power of Lower Court ot Modify Judgement Appealed From; Attorney and Client--Attorney's Lien--Priority; Carriers--tort--Ejection of Passengers--Exemplary Damages; Constitutional Law--Judgment--Full Faith and Credit--Statute of Limitations; Constitutional Law--classification of Cities--Special Acts Conferring Corporate Powers; Corporation--Sinsolvent--Preferring Creditors; Damages--Evidence of Pecuniary Condition; Damages--Exemplary Damages for Gross negligence or Where Actual Loss Purely Nominal; damages--General and Special--Pleading; Deed--Acknowledgment; elections--Ballots--Rights of Nominee to have his Name Appear More than Once Upon the Ballot; Equitable Interests--Assignability; Evidence--X-Ray Pictures; Fraud--Misrepresentation by Cashire of Bank; …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Agency--Liability of Pincipal for Unknown Deceit of Agent; Action--Splitting Causes of--Injury to Person and Property; Attorney and Client--Jurisdiction of Equity over; Banks and Banking--Cashier--Notice; Carriers--Limiting Liability--Effect of Limitation in Case of Delivery After Notice to Stop in Transit; Carriers--Tort--Ejection of Passenger for Failure to Produce Ticket; Confict of Laws--Bona Vacatia--Rigth of Succession--"Mobilia Sequuntur Personam"; Conflict of Laws--Italian marriage--Deceased Husband's Brother; Conflict of Law--Equal Protection--Refusing Barbar's License to an Alien; Constitutional Law--Equal Protection--Requiring Examination of Graduate of Medical School of other States; Constitutional Law--Insurance Companies---Equal Protection of the Laws; Constitutional Law--Vested Right of Defense--Deprivation of Property Rights; Contract--Performance--Legal Holiday; Contract--Public Policy--Sale …
Liability Of Public Officers To Private Actions For Neglect Of Official Duty, Thomas M. Cooley
Liability Of Public Officers To Private Actions For Neglect Of Official Duty, Thomas M. Cooley
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A public office is a public trust.The incumbent has a property right in it, but the office is conferred, not for his benefit, but for the benefit of the political society. The duties imposed upon the officer are supposed to be capable of classification under one of three heads: the legislative, executive, or judicial; and to pertain, accordingly, to one of the three departments of the government designated by these names. But the classification cannot be very exact, and there are numerous officers who cannot be classified at all under these heads. The reason will be apparent if we name …