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Negotiation As A Means Of Quantifying Indian Water Rights, Joseph R. Membrino

The Federal Impact on State Water Rights (Summer Conference, June 11-13)

88 pages.

Contains attachments.

Waters And Watercourses - Extent Of Riparian Land -Compensation On Condemnation, G. M. Stevens

Michigan Law Review

In a recent case compensation was sought for the taking of riparian land for public use. The Supreme Court of Nebraska held that the award should be limited to damages to those sections of land {by the government plat) bordering on the stream. A decision note in this REVIEW criticized that ruling. It was there said that proximity to riparian land might add value even to non-riparian land. Later a rehearing of the case was granted and a new opinion filed. Held, "damages . . . are not limited to governmental sections a part of which is included in …

Note And Comment, Henry M. Bates, Robert M. See, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Clyde A. Dewitt

Michigan Law Review

Courts--Jurisdiction of Circuit Court--Enjoining Writ of Error; Criminal Law--Arraignment--Waiver; Damages--Personal Injuries--Expense of Nursing; Deeds--Boundaries--Navigable Waters; Deeds--Variance Between Granting Clause and Habendum--Construction; Eminent Domain--Use of Urban Street Car Lines by Interurban Cars; Evidence--Admissibility of Statement of One Partner to a Commercial Agency as to Asset and Liabilities; Evidence--Admission of a Carbon Copy of a Contract as a Duplicate Original; Federal Courts--jurisdiction--Action Against State Officers; Foreign Corporations--Liability to be Sued; Homicide--Self-Defense--Provoking Difficulty; Insurance--Certificate Silent as to Suicide; Joint Stock Associations--have they at Common law Powers and Privileges of a Corporation not Possessed by Individuals or Partnerships?; Municipal corporations--Protecting Against Fraud by Ordinance--Sale …

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bankruptcy--Insurance Policies--Cash Surrender Value; Bankruptcy--Partnership and Individual Assets; Bills and Notes--Payment by the United States of Pension Checks on Forged Indorsements--Recovery of Payment; Common Carriers--Defective Transfers; Constitutional Law--Commerce in Intoxicating Liquors--License Tax of Traveling Salesman; Constitutional Law--Equal Protection of the Law--State Statute; Constitutional law--Police Power--Flag Legislation; Contracts--Assignments of--Right of Assignee Against Debtor; Corporations--Acquisition of Exemption in Merger; Deeds--Construction and Operation--Reservation and Exception; Deeds--Suit to Set Aside--Duress of Wife--Parties in Pari Delicto; Evidence--Confessions to One Not in Authority--Admissibility; Foreign Corporations--Effect on contracts of Failure to Register--Contracts; Fraud--Independent Investigation; Frauds, Statute of--agreement to Deal in Lands; Husband and Wife--Right to Disposition of …

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Admiralty--Liability of Public Corporation for Tort; Bankruptcy--bills and Notes--discharge of Indorser; Bankruptcy--Title to Stock Held by Stockholders; Bills and Notes--Renewal of Void Note--Moral Obligation Not a Good Consideration; Bills and Notes--Renewal of Void Note--Moral Obligation Sufficient Consideration; Carriers--contributory Negligence--Protruding Arms of Passengers; Carriers--Contributory Negligence--Protruding Arms of Passengers; Constitutional law--foreign Corporations--Service of Summons on the Auditor of State--Due Process of Law; Contract to Devise--Parol Evidence to vary Consideration Expressed in a Deed; Corporations--application for Shares--Contracts; Easements--Way of Necessity--Relation of Parties; Equity--Jurisdiction--Bills of Peace; Executors and Administrators--Allowance to Surviving Children--Stepchildren; Garnishment--Proceeds form Sale of Homestead Exempt; Garnishment--Waiver of Defect in Writ; Homestead--conveyance--Joinder …