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Selected Cases on the Law of Bailments and Carriers: Including the Quasi-Bailment Relations of Carriers of Passengers and Telegraph and Telephone Companies as Carriers

Edwin C. Goddard

In making this volume of "Selected Cases on the Law of Bailments and Carriers," the guiding principle has been to secure the clearest and fullest statement and application of every leading principle of the subject within the range of a moderate sized book. The important cases, especially on the law of Carriers, are so many as to make it impossible to include all the leading eases. Moreover, the law of Carriers is such a very modern thing as to make it desirable to include many cases too recent to be considered leading cases. Accordingly, an effort has been made to include all the greatest cases, even those of considerable length, and such others as, because of their broad scope, recent date or clear statements of principles, seem to fully cover the subjects of this branch of the law. The Selected Cases are intended to be complete enough to fit the book for use by those who prefer the "case-method" of study exclusively.
Illustrative Cases on Equity Jurisprudence

Harry B. Hutchins and Robert E. Bunker

This second edition (1904) retains the same arrangement and chapters of the previous edition (1902) about which was written, in a contemporary review: "These cases cover the entire subject of Equity Jurisprudence, and are classified according to the arrangement that is followed in Eaton on Equity….”
Code Remedies: Remedies and Remedial Rights by the Civil Action According to the Reformed American Procedure

John Norton Pomeroy and Thomas A. Bogle

The last edition of this work was published in 1894. Since that time so many decisions upon important questions of Code Pleading have been reported that another edition has become necessary. To collect, cite, and classify these decisions with reference to the topics discussed in the text, and thus place them at the convenient disposal of members of the legal profession, as well as students of the law, has been the main purpose of the present editor. This required a large amount of space, but as the original text included considerable matter that was theoretical rather than of present practical value, as well as extended quotations that properly belonged in the notes, it has been possible to do much in the way of omission and condensation. At the same time everything essential to the subject has been included, and it is believed that the text as so amended presents a more concise and systematic view than in its original form.
A Treatise on the Law of Wills: Including Also Gifts Causa Mortis and a Summary of the Law of Descent, Distribution and Administration

John R. Rood

“The present work was undertaken with the purpose of furnishing a substantial treatise on the whole law of succession in one volume. Within this scheme were comprehended the separate topics following: 1, gifts causa mortis, by reason of their resemblance to legacies; 2, wills, including all legal questions and doctrines peculiar to wills; 3, the substantive law of descent and distribution; and 4, the adjective law of succession, including the administration of both testate and intestate estates.”--Preface.
A National Incorporation Law

Horace L. Wilgus

Horace L. Wilgus argues that corporations need to be regulated on the national level.
A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations Which Rest upon the Legislative Power of the States of the American Union

Thomas M. Cooley and Victor H. Lane

“At the request of the late Judge Cooley I have undertaken the preparation of this edition of the Constitutional Limitations. It seemed desirable, in view of all the circumstances, that the text of the last edition should stand as the text for this, and the work of the present editor has been confined to the bringing of the book down to date, by the addition of such matter to the notes as will fairly present the development of this branch of the law since the publication of the last edition.” --Preface to the Seventh Edition, Victor H. Lane, Ann Arbor, September 1903
Outlines of the Law of Agency

Floyd R. Mechem

The subject of Agency belongs to a comparatively recent period in our law … Agency belongs distinctively to a commercial age, and its growth has kept pace with the progress of commercial development. It furnishes the means by which the range of individual and corporate activity is enormously increased. As soon as it is conceded that one man may be represented by another in business transactions, and that he may have as many such representatives as occasion may require, the field of commercial activity is immensely widened. The modern business man may thus be constructively present in many places and carry on diverse and widely separated industries at the same time.

The following pages have been printed to accompany the writer’s collection of Cases on Agency, for use in the Department of Law of this University. Nothing has been attempted beyond the merest outlines of the subject. Explanation as well as illustration has in general been left to be supplied by the cases.
Cases on the Law of Partnership

Floyd R. Mechem and Frank L. Sage

A casebook with selected cases to aid the teaching of partnership law.
Cases on Equity Pleading and Practice

Bradley M. Thompson

The cases contained in this volume have been selected with a view of assisting both the student and the instructor, with illustration of the practical application of the general principle and rule of equity pleading and practice. Only so much of the statement of fact and of the opinion of the court have been retained in each case as is sufficient to make the decision upon the question of pleading before the Court intelligible and clear. As far as possible all padding has been excluded. Littleton ha aid: "And know, my son, that it is one of the most honorable, laudable, and profitable things in our law to have the science of well pleading; and, therefore, I counsel thee especially to employ thy courage and care to learn this." We hope that this collection of cases will be of some practical assistance to the teacher in giving instruction in this very difficult branch of the law and that it will stimulate the courage of the student to master the "science of well pleading."
Cases on Guaranty and Suretyship

Robert E. Bunker

The cases appearing in this volume have been selected for use in connection with the lecture on Suretyship given in the Law Department of the University of Michigan. Barring omission of irrelevant matter in some instances and of the briefs and arguments of counsel in all instances, the cases appear in this volume as they appear in the reports themselves. Uniformity in spelling and punctuation has not been attempted or thought desirable. In regard to these matters, the report have been followed, except in cases of manifest error.

The purpose has been to put into the hand of the student taking the course in Suretyship in this University a limited number of cases which will serve to illustrate and, in some measure, to supplement the lectures on that subject. Some cases have been selected for the forms and suggestions they furnish in the practical work of preparing bonds and such other instruments as pertain to the general subject - such work being a material feature of the course. Such a volume as this would not be necessary were it possible for students to consult the reports themselves in season to prepare the work required of them. The great number of students attending the Law Department of this University puts that possibility out of question, and that, too. despite the very complete Law Library so arranged as to afford the best means for its largest use.
Illustrative Cases on Equity Jurisprudence

Harry B. Hutchins and Robert E. Bunker

“‘Hutchins & Bunker’s Illustrative Cases on Equity Jurisprudence” is a recently published collection of 286 cases, selected by Dean Harry B. Hutchins and Prof. Robert E. Bunker, both of the University of Michigan. These cases cover the entire subject of Equity Jurisprudence, and are classified according to the arrangement that is followed in Eaton on Equity….” -- American Law School Review 1, no.1 (1902): 30, “Recent Legal Publications.”
Cases on Criminal Law

Jerome C. Knowlton and John W. Dwyer

This book of cases is prepared with the idea of assisting the student in his study of the substantive law of crimes. It is thought, however that the topical arrangement made, with an illustrative case under each topic may occasionally give the practitioner a leader over some troublesome path of investigation.
Cases on the Law of Damages

Floyd R. Mechem

Note to the Second Edition: “The following selection of cases in the law of Damages has been made primarily for use in connection with the lectures upon that subject given in the Law department of the University of Michigan. The purpose has been particularly to supply illustration of the application of principles referred to in the lectures, and partly to supplement the lectures by rounding out the view of certain fields not otherwise completely developed.”

Note to the Third Edition: “While the general features remain the same, the number of cases in this edition has been considerably increased in the hope that the book may prove reasonably adequate in itself to exhibit the most important aspects of the law of Damages.”
Cases on the General Principles of the Law of Private Corporations, Volume 1

Horace L. Wilgus

This work is designed to furnish those interested in the study of Corporation Law, -whether practitioner, teacher or student, - such material from the original sources, and in such order, as will show how reason and experience have dealt with the subject. Effort has been made in the selection to secure the best expression of the underlying reason or theory; to place these in such order as to develop, in a natural way, the general theory of Corporation Law, set forth in the table of contents; to insert such notes as will present a more comprehensive view of some of the topics; and to furnish, in chronological order, such a list of cases bearing upon the principles as will enable the investigator to make a reasonably complete study of the same.
Cases on the General Principles of the Law of Private Corporations, Volume 2

Horace L. Wilgus

In the first volume, and in the first two titles of the second volume, are considered the doctrines relating to the birth, life, powers, acts, obligations, and death of a corporation, effort being made to get a view of the general principles of the whole.

This second volume, with the exception of the first two titles, deals with the Corporation as a Subject and Source of Peculiar Rights and Obligations in its twofold aspect of Corporate Relations and Individual Relations.
A Treatise on the Law of Sale of Personal Property, Volume I

Floyd R. Mechem

When this task was undertaken the writer believed that there was a real need for an American book upon the law of Sale. In the long time that he bas been at work, various contributions to the subject have been made by others, so that it is possible that the need, if it ever existed, has long since been supplied. The writer, however, whether wisely or unwisely, has persisted in his undertaking, and if bis work shall prove to have a value in some degree commensurate with the labor spent upon it, he will be content.
A Treatise on the Law of Sale of Personal Property, Volume II

Floyd R. Mechem

When this task was undertaken the writer believed that there was a real need for an American book upon the law of Sale. In the long time that he bas been at work, various contributions to the subject have been made by others, so that it is possible that the need, if it ever existed, has long since been supplied. The writer, however, whether wisely or unwisely, has persisted in his undertaking, and if bis work shall prove to have a value in some degree commensurate with the labor spent upon it, he will be content.
Outlines of the Law of Agency

Floyd R. Mechem

The subject of Agency belongs to a comparatively recent period in our law … Agency belongs distinctively to a commercial age, and its growth has kept pace with the progress of commercial activity. It furnishes the means by which the range of individual and corporate activity is enormously increased. One person may thus have many an alter ego. A single brain may direct a hundred hands. The modern business man may be constructively present in many places and carry on diverse and widely separated industries at the same time.

The following pages have been printed to accompany the writer’s collection of Cases on Agency for use in the Department of Law of this University. Nothing has been attempted beyond the merest outlines of the subject. Explanation as well as illustration has, in general been left to be supplied by the cases.
A Study of the United States Steel Corporation in Its Industrial and Legal Aspects; Being Three Lectures Delivered to the Class in Private Corporations, in the University of Michigan, June 3, 4 and 5, 1901

Horace L. Wilgus

When the. class in corporations asked me to lecture upon the United States Steel Corporation, I replied I had not at band such of the documents use.d in its organization as would justify a legal discussion, and I did not wish to rely upon newspaper reports as to their contents. I promised, however, to try to secure authentic information. In order to do this, I wrote Messrs. J. P. Horgan & Co., requesting copies of such papers as were not considered private, stating what use was to be made of them. In reply to this request, they very kindly sent me copies of the Charter, By-laws, and Circulars used in organizing the company, printed in the Appendix. When the lectures were prepared, there was no expectation of publishing them; after the delivery, many requests for them in more permanent form, than mere. not.es taken at the time they were delivered, have induced me to print them. They appear substantially as read to the class. The legal view taken herein, requires, in fairness, that the documents upon which it is based, should be given in full, in order that those who are interested will have before them the materials for forming independent conclusions.
Elements of the Law of Partnership

Floyd R. Mechem

Several years ago the writer printed for the use of his class a brief course of lectures on Partnership. A wider demand for them having sprung up, they have been revised and reprinted in the hope that they may be useful to students elsewhere. They pretend to be nothing more than the mere elements of the subject, and the endeavor has been to keep them in small compass. The citation of authorities has been purposely limited to the leading and most readily accessible cases, and those cited have been selected rather as illustrations of the text than as authorities for it. Much statement of cases in the text has been avoided, because the lectures were designed to be used and were in fact used in connection with a volume of selected cases upon the subject. It is assumed that the study of Agency will precede that of Partnership, and some knowledge of the former subject has been constantly taken for granted. If the style at times seems to be didactic, the circumstances of the original composition will serve as an explanation.

The law of Partnership, of which we are now to begin the study, is one of the ·most interesting and important branches of commercial law. It appropriately follows the law of Agency, of which it is often said to be a part. It belongs to that class of personal relations, heretofore spoken of, which are created, not by law, but by the contract of the parties.
Elements of the Law of Negotiable Contracts

Elias Finley Johnson

“The cases here collected and annotated, have been selected by the undersigned, primarily for the use of students in his classes. To make a wise selection of cases from the large number that are to be found upon a particular subject is a most difficult task … It has been attempted here to select, as far as possible, the very earliest cases upon the particular subject, so that the student would thereby be able to get at the reason of the rule without reference to any statutory provisions. Attention is called to the latest cases, however, in the foot notes.” --Preface
Cases on the Law of Damages

Floyd R. Mechem

The following selection of cases in the law of Damages has been made primarily for use in connection with the lectures upon that subject given in the Law Department of the University of Michigan. The purpose has been partly to supply illustrations of the application of principles referred to in the lectures, and partly to supplement the lectures by rounding out the view of certain fields not otherwise completely developed.

Arbitrary, but inexorable, considerations of size and price have determined the scope of the selection; and, for reasons perhaps suficiently obvious, preference has been given, when pqssible, to cases which have appeared in the National Reporter System. It is, however, due to the publishers to say that, with respect to both of the considerations above mentioned, their attitude has been constantly generous.
Cases on the Law of Damages

Floyd R. Mechem

The following selection of cases in the law of Damages has been made primarily for use in connection with the lectures upon that subject given in the Law Department of the University of Michigan. The purpose has been partly to supply illustrations of the application of principles referred to in the lectures, and partly to supplement the lectures by rounding out the view of certain fields not otherwise completely developed. Arbitrary, but inexorable, considerations of size and price have determined the scope of the selection; and, for reasons perhaps sufficiently obvious, preference has been given, when possible, to cases which have appeared in the National Reporter System. It is, however, due to the publishers to say that, with respect to both of the considerations above mentioned, their attitude has been constantly generous. The cases, as a role, are not annotated, and they have usually been reproduced entire, although some parts of them may not be germane to the subject of Damages.
Cases on the Law of Partnership

Floyd R. Mechem

A casebook with selected cases to aid the teaching of partnership law. First edition. Missing front matter.
Cases on the Law of Evidence

Horace L. Wilgus

A casebook supporting Evidence course in any Law curriculum. The work is arranged in three sections: Part I: Relevancy; Part II, Proof; and Part III, Production and Effect of Evidence. There is further organization into 113 topical Sections as described in the Table of Contents. The author provides no introductory remarks.