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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Cases on Personal Property
Levi T. Griffin and A. M. Fletcher
The following cases have been printed at the request of Levi T. Griffin, A. M., Fletcher Professor of Law in the University of Michigan, for use in connection with his lectures in that school. They have been compiled by Prof. Griffin with the assistance of Walter Denton Smith, Instructor in Law. They have been selected largely from Adams' Cases on Sales.
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Cases on Equity Jurisprudence
Harry B. Hutchins
“The following cases have been printed at the request of Prof. H. B. Hutchins, Dean of the Law Department of the University of Michigan, for use in connection with his lectures in that law school. They have been chiefly selected from Fetter’s Cases on Equity Jurisprudence and Pattee’s Cases in Equity.” -- Title page.
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Cases on the Law of Damages
Floyd R. Mechem
"The following cases have been printed at the request of Professor Mechem, of the Law Department of the University of Michigan, for use in connection with his lectures in that law school."-- Title page.
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Cases on the Law of Succession to Property After the Death of the Owner
Floyd R. Mechem
“The following cases have been printed at the request of Professor Mechem, of the Law Department of the University of Michigan, for use in connection with his lectures in that law school. They have been chiefly selected from Reeves’ Cases on Wills and Abbott’s Cases on Descent, Wills, and Administration.” Title page.
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Cases on the Law of Agency
Floyd R. Mechem
The following collection of cases has been prepared, at the request of several leading educators, to accompany the writer’s treatise on the law of agency, the purpose being to illustrate the text by object lessons gathered from the reports. Nothing in the way of annotation has been attempted, beyond an occasional reference to similar cases, as it is thought that the text of the treatise supplies all that is needed in that direction. To make a selection of cases from the great number upon the subject is a difficult task and one in reference to which opinions will necessarily differ. The attempt here has been to select such as contained clear statements of the principles or furnished striking illustrations of them, and were not too much involved with other matters or too long for reproduction. Some cases which might otherwise have appeared have been omitted because the substance of them has been sufficiently stated in the text or notes of the treatise. In many cases matters irrelevant to this subject have been omitted. Cases on the law of master and servant have also been omitted as they sufficiently appear in other available collections. Many of the cases given are too recent to constitute what may be termed leading cases, nor has there been any attempt to include all that might properly be so designated. As the volume is intended primarily for the use of students, for whom the making of their own abstracts is a most valuable exercise, the cases are printed without head notes. It is believed, however, that they will be thereby rendered no less useful to others who may desire to consult them, as a full index furnishes a ready guide to their contents.
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An Analysis of the Principles of Equity Pleading : Containing a Compendium of the High Court of Chancery, and the Foundation of Its Rules : Together with an Illustration of the Analogy Between Pleadings at Common Law and in Equity
D. G. Lube and Bradley M. Thompson
Since the publication in 1823 by Mr. D. G. Lube of his Principles of Equity Pleading that work has been recognized by the profession as a standard treatise upon that subject. The two generations of lawyers and judges who have come and gone since Lube wrote have contributed little to the a~t and science of equity pleading, so that to-day Lube's work is the best in existence. In this edition of the second part of his work the Editor has added little to the text of importance and has omitted substantially nothing. The only object he had in view in preparing this edition was to obtain a text suitable for the use of the student.
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A Manual of Equity Pleading and Practice
Bradley M. Thompson
The following manual is intended simply as an introduction to the study of Equity Pleading and Practice, and to the course of lectures delivered upon that subject. The manual has been divided into lectures for the purposes of indicating the ground which a particular lecture will cover. It is expected that the student will master the printed synopsis before attending a given lecture.
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The Dartmouth College Case and Private Corporations: A Paper Presented by William P. Wells, of Detroit, at the Ninth Annual Meeting, Auguest 19, 1886.
William P. Wells
The Dartmouth College Case and Private Corporations. Chancellor Kent, writing in 1826, thus expressed himself concerning the Dartmouth College case: "It contains one of the most full and elaborate expositions of the constitutional sanctity of contracts to be met with in any of the reports. The decision in that case did more than any other single act proceeding from the authority of the United States to throw .an impregnable barrier around all rights and franchises derived from the grant of government and to give solidity and inviolability to the literary, charitable, religious and commercial institutions of our country."
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Commentaries on the Laws of England : in Four Books
William Blackstone and Thomas M. Cooley
"Believing that the time has come when this work would be increased in value by discarding altogether the notes of English editors, and substituting matter more especially important to American practitioners and students, the editor has prepared this edition under that conviction.... To the Review of the recent progress of the law appended to the Fourth Book, there has been also added a summary account of the British Colonial System and the System of Local Government, and the means given for comparison of these with analogous institutions in the United States."
This series includes the full text of select faculty-authored books, including some authored by Thomas M. Cooley.
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