Recent Important Decisions

Authors

Michigan Law Review

Abstract

Bankruptcy--"Mining" includes Quarrying; Bankruptcy--Persons Entitled to Oppose Discharge; Banks and Banking--Right of Drawer of Check to Stop its Payment; Bills and Notes--Trustees for Benefit of Creditors as Holders in Due course--Pre-Existing Debt Constitutes Value; Building Contracts--Provisions for Extra Work--Powers of Architect; Common Carriers--Delay Co-Operating with Act of God; Contracts--When a Breach on the Part of One party to a Contract Entitles the Other to Rescind; Criminal Law--Former Jeopardy; Damages--Recovery for Gratuitous Services; Deeds--Estate Granted--Conflict Between the Habendum and the Granting Clauses; Equity--Wills--Precatory Trust; Foreign Corporations--Statute Revoking License on Removal of a Cause to Federal Court; Husband and Wife--Purchase by Wife of Husband's Property at Tax Sale--Duty to Pay Taxes; Judgment--Amendment--Jurisdiction; Master and Servant--defective Appliances--Assumption of Risk--Promise to Repair; Municipal Corporations--Powers of Police Commissioners--Dismissal of Officer; Negligence--Injuries to Children--Turntable Cases; Oral Party Wall Agreement--Covenant Running with the Land; Principal and Surety--Application of Payments; Sales--Law Governing Validity--Orders Taken Subject to Approval; Sales--Rescission for Fraud--What Constitutes Intention Not to Pay; Schools--Validity of Regulations as to Secret Societies; Statutes--Variance Between Enrolled Bill and Journal; Statutes--Regularity of Enactment--Evidence--De Hors Journals; Trial--Taking Pleadings to Jury Room; Wills--Nature of Disposition--Unnatural Disposition

Recommended Citation

Michigan Law Review, Recent Important Decisions, 5 Mich. L. Rev. 50 (1906).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol5/iss1/5