Recent Important Decisions

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Michigan Law Review

Abstract

Assignment for Creditors--Validity of Common Law Assignment Under State Statutes--Assignee May Maintain Replevin; Bills and Notes--Fraud--Ability to Read; Bills and Notes--Signature by Agent or Representative--Personal Liability; Boundaries--Meander Line as Boundary in Government Grants--Mistake in Survey; Carriers--Liability as Carriers of Live Stock; Contracts--Antenuptial Agreements--Performance Prevented by Party; Courts--Supreme Court--Review of Decisions of State Courts; Courts--United States Courts Enjoining Proceedings in State Courts--establishment of Railroad Rates by Commission; Criminal Law--Larceny--Fraudulent Use of Legal Process; Criminal Law--Reception of Verdict--Accused's Right to be Present; Dead Bodies--Power of Court to Order Exhumation to Procure Evidence; Evidence--Burden of Proof; Evidence--compelling Accused to Criminate Himself--Waiver of Privilege; Insurance--"sound Health" in Life Insurance Policy--Must it be Actual?; Insurance--Warranty in Application for Accident Insurance--Whether Incorporated into Contract; Judgment by Default--Nonresident Defendant--Personal Service in Another State; Monopolies--Contracts in Restraint of Trade--Interstate Commerce; Municipal Corporations--Assessment of Railroad Property--Special Assessments Under the Police Power; Municipal Corporations--Removal of Shade Trees from Street--Review of Acts of City Officials; natural Gas--Owners of Adjacent Wells--Alleged Waste of Supply; Parent and Child--Bastards--Legitimation--Acknowledgment--Consent of Mother; Quieting Title--Injunction Pendente Lite; Railroads--Liability of Licensee Road for Injuries; Sales--Breach of Contract--Measure of Damages; Sales--Performance of Contract--Waiver of Default; Taxation--Tax Deeds--Recitals; Wills--distribution--Abatement of General Legacies--Intent of Testator; Wills--Repugnancy in a Devise--Intention of Testator Controls;

Recommended Citation

Michigan Law Review, Recent Important Decisions, 7 Mich. L. Rev. 427 (1909).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol7/iss5/3