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Provides information on the merits of several U.S. Supreme Court and appellate court cases. Recovery of profits lost by commercial fishermen as a result of a negligently caused oil spill; Due process claim which was not litigated in the state adjudication; Injunction of a work stoppage when its legality is arbitrable issue.

Examines the theoretical foundations of the mootness doctrine of the U.S. Supreme Court. Range of policy factors to aid in evaluating whether any such interest indicates the existence of a continuing dispute; Existence of current injury to the plaintiff; Factors that may terminate the jurisdictional injury of the court in mootness cases.

Presents the supreme court case American Civil Liberties Union Inc. v. Jennings in the U.S. in the 1970s. Details on the case; Powers of the U.S. Congress imposed on the case; Arguments of the court toward the presumption of constitutional validity.

Presents several court cases filed in the U.S. in 1973. Scientists' Institute for Public Information Inc. v. AEC on environmental impact statements; Lanza v. Drexel & Co. on securities law; United States v. Woods on proof of particular facts.

Studies various cases, published in the May 1911 issue of "Harvard Law Review." Judgment of the House of Lords regarding the damages recoverable from one of two vessels who collide where both are at fault; Enumeration of the two rule for construing contacts by attorneys for taking clients' cases; Discussion on the right of creditor with waiver of exemption in times of bankruptcy.

Discusses the facts of several cases, published in the May 1911 issue of "Harvard Law Review." Importance of the case of Flint vs. Stone Tracy Co.; Argumentation on the waiver of stockholders' liability; Explanation on the jurisdiction over movable property brought into a state without the consent of the owners.

Presents several cases for review, published in the April 1911 issue of "Harvard Law Review." Discussion about adverse possession as to who may gain title of real property relative to the owner; Probable claims and the rights of creditor's security in times of bankruptcy; Misapplication of funds of corporation by officer endorsing the checks of the corporation.

Presents reviews of court cases that were recent in March 1911. Aliens' proof of residence by supplementary affidavits under the Naturalization Act of 1906; Ruling that the right of action for fraud causing damage to property passed to the trustee in bankruptcy; Validity of a promissory note with no sum named in it, but with the correct figure in the upper left-hand corner..

Discusses actions and defenses. Adverse possession; Bankruptcy; Property passing to trustee; Conflict of laws; Constitutional law; Foreign corporations; Costs; Criminal law; Dangerous premises; Dead bodies; Death by wrongful act; Divorce; Electric wires; General principles and rules of exclusion; Homicide; Contracts between husband and wife.

Discusses actions and defenses. Husband's duty to reimburse wife for expenditures for necessities; May state of domicile tax gifts made abroad when the property is located abroad; Apportionment of an annuity between capital and income; Restrictions upon the vendor of good will; Habit as an evidence of act; Quo warranto and mandamus for offices at will.

Discusses the issue of a system of precedents which enables lawyers and judges to determine from an examination of them what the law on any particular subject ought to be declared by the courts to be, when a dispute of litigants brings the matter there for determination. Judges and lawyers' recollections of the cases which came before them; Importance of trial note-taking in the administration of the system.

Examines the impact of the adoption of the common law of England in the United States. General assumption that in those states in which the English common law has been adopted, the decisions of the courts should be the same, in the absence of modifying statutes; Observation that the acceptance and application of the common law principle of the authority of precedent in a given jurisdiction eats up and destroys the theory that the decisions of the court are only evidence of the law.

Presents legal cases from the English and American decisions not yet regularly reported. Establishment of state boundary by lapse of time; Dissolution of liens; Bankruptcy; Set-off against amount due on unpaid stock subscriptions; Power of court to decree assessments upon foreign policy-holders in domestic corporations; Legitimacy and adoption; Statute giving personal representative right to sue for death by wrongful act.

Examines whether an executed transaction shall be a foundation of rights and obligations in the law relating to "ultra vires" transactions in the United States. Corporation as a composite unit; Decision in "Central Transportation Co. v. Pullman's Car Co.," "Head v. Providence Insurance Co.," "Pearce v. Madison Co.," "National Bank v. Matthews," "National Bank v. Case," "Cowell v. Springs Co.," and "Christian Union v. Yount"; Assumed corporate action by persons who have been incorporated "de jure".

Presents several legal cases in the U.S. Claim that a holder in due course is free from defenses available to prior parties among themselves under the Negotiable Instruments Law; Liability of carrier for acts of employee of sleeping car company explained in the Taber v. Seaboard Air Line; Citation of a case concerning wife's acquisition of husband's interest in estate by entirety.

Presents several Supreme Court cases in the U.S. Opinion of the court in the case Thompson v. Crown Perfumery Co. and Batcheller Importing Co.; Contention of the plaintiff in the case Duquesne Distributing Co. v. Green Baum; Merit of the case Skipper v. Hollaway.

This article discusses the validity of a contract under a law. A new point was raised by the case of Bank of Africa v. Cohen. In this case a married woman in England had given a power of attorney to transfer her land in the Transvaal to the plaintiff bank, as security for advances thereafter made to her husband. By the English law she was capable of contracting or transferring land. By the law of the Transvaal she could transfer or contract to transfer the land as surety for her husband only if she had some pecuniary interest in the transaction or expressly waived the benefit of the law which protected her; which was not the case here.

Presents a number of law cases in the United States. Priority of maritime liens in admiralty; Constructive possession and adverse possession; Agent's liability to third persons; Tort; Bankruptcy; Bills and notes; Cancellation of instruments; Carriers; Constitutional law; Due process of law; Death by wrongful act; Dower; Eminent domain; Evidence.

Cites various U.S. court cases on issues related to commercial law. Contention of the plaintiff in the case of "Illinois Steel Co. v. Budzisz"; Argument of the defendant in the case of "Firestone Tire Co. v. Agnew"; Decision of the court in the case of "Jordan Marsh Co. v. National Shawmut Bank."

Presents several Supreme Court cases in the U.S. "American, etc., Bank v. Woodlawin Cemetery"; "Murphy v. Hutchinson"; "Paterson v. Gandasequi."

Presents actions and defenses in the United States. Assignments for creditors; Bankruptcy; Bills and notes; Conflict of laws; Constitutional law; Due process of law; Constructive trusts; Corporations; Equitable conversion; Estoppel; Executors and administrators; General average; Gifts; Guardian and ward; Illegal contracts; Marine insurance; Interstate commerce.

Presents actions and defenses in the United States. Recovery for goods sold by an illegal combination; State regulation of interstate commerce; Law of the case; English view of capacity in international marriages; Heirlooms and dispositions of personalty to follow limitations of realty; Collateral attack upon the decree of probate court.

Presents notes about legal issues raised in various court cases in the United States compiled for March 1909. Right of withdrawal from a public enterprise in the case, In the Matter of Wheeler; Decision of Virginia's Supreme Court in the case, Prentis v. Atlantic Coast Line Co. regarding the application of injunction at the federal court; Appointment of a receiver for a corporation de facto in the case, Matter of New York, W.&B Ry Co.

Presents answers to a question concerning the extralateral rights incident to ownership of a junior lode location which partly overlaps a senior lode location. Two actions brought by the Del Monte Mining and Milling Co.; Protest against the extraction of ore from under its surface by owners of the junior locations.

Presents actions and defenses in the United States. Adverse possession; Bankruptcy; Chattel mortgages; Conflict of laws; Contracts; Corporations; Equity; Federal courts; Injunctions; Insurance; Joint wrongdoers; Malicious prosecution; Nullification of marriage; Mortgages; Real property; Rule against perpetuities; Sales; Specific performance.

Presents actions and defenses in the United States. Federal jurisdiction of suit against "State Dispensary Commission"; Formation of corporation for the purpose of effecting diversity of citizenship; Enforcement of assessments in the courts of a foreign jurisdiction; Special assessments under police power without regard to benefits; Conversion of mortgage into an absolute conveyance; Necessity as an excuse for a trespass upon land.

Provides information on court cases in the United States, compiled as of January 1909. Inclusion of a plaintiff that sued on a policy of marine insurance for loss of his ship by perils of the sea; Plaintiff's filing of a bill for the cancellation of a deed to the defendant, which the defendant by duress had induced her to execute and deliver before her marriage to him; Ruling that a person convicted of an infamous crime is not disenfranchised, according to the New York Constitution.

Presents articles relating to law and various court cases, compiled as of January 1909. Decision by the Circuit Court of Appeals that the American Tobacco Co. and others of its controlled companies are combinations in restraint of trade under the Sherman Act; Declaration by a U.S. Supreme Court judge that a state law which forbids the joint education of white and colored persons in private schools violates the federal Constitution; Case on the constitutionality of statutory commitment of defendants acquitted of crime because of insanity; Domicile of persons non sui juris; Constitutional question involved in the exclusion of aliens by the executive under the Immigration Act of 2003.

Discusses the leading principles of German law, which are that every right may be enforced by the courts and that the purpose of such enforcement is the creation of the condition which would exist if the right was complied with voluntarily and without judicial help. Purpose of a lawsuit; Right of enforcement arising out of private rights, which is called a claim by the German Civil Code; Purpose of the enforcement of claims; Enforcement of claims by way of specific performance, injunction, restitution in kind and damages; Establishment of a condition which is in accordance with a right.

Reports on the publication of leading legal articles. Case involving the nature of a bank's interest in paper deposited for discount or collection; Case involving the preference given to the legal estate over the equitable.

Presents reviews of court cases that were recent in November 1908. Liability of an undisclosed principal and the recovery of a promissory note given by the agent; Authority of a wife to pledge her husband's credit and the liability of a principal to third persons in a contract; Warrant of attachment and dissolution of liens in a bankruptcy case.

The article presents information on various developments related law in the U.S. The Negotiable Instruments Law of Pennsylvania provides that where a drawee to whom a bill is delivered for acceptance destroys it or refuses to return it within twenty-four hours or such other period as the holder may allow, he will be deemed to have accepted It. The plaintiff presented certain checks to the defendant bank, which retained possession of them for several days. There was no express demand by the plaintiff, nor refusal by the bank.

Presents reviews of court cases that were recent in May 1908. Case showing the disinclination of the Supreme Court to disturb its old rule on admiralty jurisdiction of a tort; Preference given by state courts to local creditors over an insolvent foreigner in a case of garnishment; Revocation of submission to arbitration by the death of a party.

Discusses the legal problem of the clog on the equity of redemption. Rule against clog on the equity as a necessary corollary of the principle of redemption; Batty v. Snook as a case of a provision for cutting short an equity of redemption; Problem when there is a stipulation in the mortgage that the mortgage may purchase the interest of the mortgagor; Details of two cases in the House of Lords.

Comments on court cases in the United States in the early 1900s. State control over maritime rights; Enforcement by assignee of contract to convey land to alien; Provable claims in bankruptcy; Extension of city boundaries; Validity of contracts; Jurisdiction for nullification of marriage; Corporate director's right to salary; Dissolution of corporations; Measure of damages; Illegal contracts.

Analyzes court decisions in several cases in the United States. State taxation of the proceeds of the sale of imports in "People v. Wells"; Extra-territorial extent of a state's jurisdiction in personam in "Consolidated Rendering Co. v. Vermont"; Restrictions on land dedicated to a municipality in "Perth Amboy Trust Co. v. Perth Amboy"; State control over maritime rights; Unity of estates in "Richardson v. Graham"; Testamentary gift to a class; Territorial extent and situs of trademarks.

Analyzes three cases handled by the United States Supreme Court related to the confusion in the law on materialmen's liens on vessels. Maritime law's provision of a lien for necessaries given to a foreign ship or to a ship in a port of the state to which the ship does not belong; Power of state legislatures to create liens on domestic vessels; Pledging of the credit of the vessel by a charter party who has control and possession of the vessel; Variations in local statutes.

Provides synopses on recent court cases in the U.S. Liability of a mining boss to provide miners with a safe place to work; Conflict of laws relating to personal jurisdiction; Constitutionality of voting machines.

Discusses developments in law in the United States as of January 1908. Jurisdiction of federal courts to issue writ of habeas corpus to relieve from commitment by state court; Delegation of legislative power; When redress for a tortuous act committed in a foreign jurisdiction will be refused; Jurisdiction of equity to avoid a multiplicity of suits when one is arrayed against many.

Examines theories upon which the legal principle of the defense of contributory negligence is based. Definition of legal proximity of causation; Distinction between primary and secondary duties; Voluntary assumption of risk.

Discusses different kinds of contempt of court within the context of criminal and civil courts. Direct insult to the king; Contempt of the bishop and of Parliament; Any act which interferes with the operation of the court itself while engaged in the trial of cases; Any act which directly obstructs the course of justice, though done outside the court.

Discusses actions and defenses in the United States as of January 1908. Bankruptcy and exemptions; State insolvency laws; Fictitious payee of bills and notes; Bills of peace; Conflict of laws; Constitutional law; Impairment of obligation of contracts; Separation of powers; Delegation of legislative power to committee of political party; Judicial recount and re-canvass of ballots; Trial by jury; Who may set up unconstitutionality.

Discusses the right of a stockholder, suing in behalf of a corporation, to complain of misdeeds occuring prior to his acquisition of stock. Stockholder must have had his shares devolve upon him after the wrongs were committed by operation of law; Arbitrary limitation placed upon his right to sue; Transfer operates to cut off rights which the transferor would have had; Wrongs are imposed on purchasers who only on becoming stockholders can inspect the books of the company.

Presents reviews of various legal cases which were recent in June 1907. Case of adverse possession in a public corporation invested with the title of public schoolhouse sites; Statutes requiring the recording of transfer of mortgages in bankruptcy proceedings; Goods of other persons in the possession of a bankrupt vendor; Unliquidated damages for torts.

Presents reviews of court cases that were recent in May 1907. Ruling that a plaintiff may recover for the trespass on realty by animals straying from a public highway; Defendant who had been discharged in voluntary individual bankruptcy proceedings, his schedule including a debt to the plaintiff, who was properly notified; Jurisdiction of state courts in the determination of title to a property in the possession of the trustee.

Discusses a rule relating to an accounting of profits affirmed by the Supreme Court of Massachusetts in a trade-mark case. Rule found in the case of Regis v. Jaynes; Case involving plaintiffs and defendants in the drug retail trade; Sufficient fraud and infringement on the part of the defendant in the ruling by Judge Sheldon.

Presents analyses of legal cases in the United States. Bailments; Bankruptcy; Banks and banking; Bills and notes; Bills of lading; Conflict of laws; Interstate succession; Constitutional law; Due process of law; Corporate powers and their exercise; Plea that court not legally organized; Criminal law; Former jeopardy; Immaterial variance; Qualification of voters; Eminent domain.

Presents a number of articles in periodicals regarding legal cases in the United States. Taxation of gross receipts of interstate carriers; Ratification of an unauthorized contract of insurance after the occurrence of loss; Abuse of the corporation charter.

Part III. Examines important issues in labor litigation in the United States. Tests of the propositions to several hypothetical cases; Case where the defendant applies for a single job vacancy, preventing the complainant from being accepted for the position; Case where the defendant asks an employer to dismiss the complainant who is working under a contract terminable, at any moment, at the will of either party.

Discusses the issue of prima facie liability of defendants who are members of a combination in United States labor litigation. Whether members of a combination incur a greater prima facie liability than a single individual; Interpretation and effect of certain decisions; Controversy as to the result in case the question is considered solely upon principle; Practical considerations.