Recent Important Decisions

Authors

Michigan Law Review

Abstract

Adverse Possession--Paper Title--Constructive Possession--Occupancy; Bankruptcy--Property Vesting in Trustee--Insurance Policies with Cash Surrender Value Absorbed by a Lien; Bankruptcy--Provable Debts--Contingent Claims--Landlord and Tenant; Bills and Notes--Incomplete and Undelivered Check, completed and Negotiated by Thief--Delivery Not Presumed; Bills and Notes--Note Distinguished from Testamentary Disposition; Contracts--Consideration--Forbearance to Sue; Contracts--Illegal Contract--Agent's Liability for Proceeds; Corporations--corporate Stock--Priority of Rights Between Unrecorded Transferee and Attachment Creditor; Criminal Procedure--Sealed Verdict--Separation of Jury; Eminent Domain--Streets--Power to Condemn Land Required for Railroad Purposes; Evidence--Presumptions and Burden of Proof in Case of Corporation Charged with Crime; Garnishments--On What Actions Available--Liquidated Claims; Insurance--change of Rates in Mutual Benefit Association; Judgments--Foreign Judgment--Merger--Bar; Landlord and Tenant--Fire Escapes--Restrictive Covenant--Repairs; Marriage--Presumption of Validity--What Law Governs?; master and Servant--Master's Liability for Injury to Third Person Caused by Servant; Master and Servant--Unlawful Sales of Intoxicating Liquors by Drug Clerk--Criminal Liability; Miscegenation--Constitutional law--Construction; Municipal Corporations--Ordinances--Violation--Smoke Ordinance--Nuisance; Negligence--"last Clear Chance Doctrine"; Parent and Child--Contributory Negligence of Custodian imputed to Parent; Railroads--Agreements Concerning Stations; Sunday--Public Amusements--"Any Such Place of Public Amusement"; Suretyship--Payment by Cosurety After Statutory Period; Tort--Obstruction of Legal Remedies--Liabilities; Trial--Opening Statement--Direction of Verdict--Power of Court; Trusts--Misappropriation by the Trustee--Liability; Waste--No Physical Injury to Premises; Wills--construction--Estate Granted--"Without Issue";

Recommended Citation

Michigan Law Review, Recent Important Decisions, 9 Mich. L. Rev. 252 (1911).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol9/iss3/4