AUTOMOBILES - REGISTRATION OF TITLE AND TRANSFER - EFFECT ON OWNERSHIP

Authors

Gerald M. Stevens, University of Michigan Law SchoolFollow

Abstract

Who owns this automobile? is a question of frequent interest both to the state and to its citizens. Identification of it and its owner may be a leading clue to the solution of crime; its owner must often be apprehended as the first step toward punishment of one of the considerable list of offenses peculiar to the operation of motor vehicles; it constitutes an important item of taxable property. The private citizen is interested in its ownership to identify the proper defendant in his tort action; it is an obvious source of satisfaction of his claim against a debtor; or he may want to lend money to, or buy it from, its rightful owner.

Recommended Citation

Gerald M. Stevens, AUTOMOBILES - REGISTRATION OF TITLE AND TRANSFER - EFFECT ON OWNERSHIP, 37 Mich. L. Rev. 758 (1939).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol37/iss5/5