Recent Important Decisions

Authors

Michigan Law Review

Abstract

Bankruptcy--Action by Trustee--Right of Set-Off; Bills and Notes--forged Check--Payment--Recovery Back; Boundaries--Artificial Bodies of Water; Carriers--who are Passengers--Fraud in Securing Carriage; Corporations--Exclusive Privileges--Statutory Construction; Corporations--Penal Offense--Construction of Statute; Costs--change of Venue--Liability of County; Criminal law--Proximate Cause--Deposit of Obscene Matter in the Mail; Damages--Status of Dead Bodies--Mutilation--Mental Suffering; Easements--Adverse Possession--Color of Title; Eminent Domain--Telephone Poles in Highway--No Additional Burden; Equity--Injunction Against Prosecution; Evidence--Aliens--Burden of Proof in Deportation Proceedings; False Imprisonment--Joinder of Causes of Action; Garnishment--Liability of Executor; Homestead--alienation by Widow--Abandonment--Limitation of Actions; Insurance--Interest of Owner in Property--Sole and Unconditional Owner; Insurance--Sale of One Company to Another--rights of Policy-Holders and Agents of the Selling Company; Mechanic's Lien--enforcement--Cross-Bill--Right to Maintain; Mortgages--Foreclosure Under Power of Sale--Injunction--Limitations; Municipal Corporations--Liability for Tort--Governmental and Corporate Duties; Municipal Corporations--Power to Grant Exclusive Privileges; Parent and Child--Custody--Abandonment--Adoption; Partnership--Transfer of Property--Lien of Partnership Creditors; Sales--Prohibition of Certain Contracts of Sale--Exercise of Police Power; Sales--Stoppage in Transitu--Warehouseman--redelivery of Shipping Receipts--Bankrupt Vendee; Statute of Frauds--Original or Collateral Promise; Street Railroads--Last Clear Chance Doctrine; Taxation--Transfer Tax--Proceeds of Insurance Policy; Trusts--Express Trust in Realty--Creation by Parol; Waters--Appropriation of Waste Water; Wills--Holographic Wills--Validity--Devise--Real Estate; Wills--Witnesses--Signature; Witnesses--Claim of Privilege--Production of Partnership Books;

Recommended Citation

Michigan Law Review, Recent Important Decisions, 5 Mich. L. Rev. 119 (1906).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol5/iss2/4