Volume 55
1956-57
Issue 1
- Torts – Libel and Slander – Calling a Person a Communist as Slader Per Se
- Periodical Index
- Wu: Fountain of Justice
- Restitution – Waiver of Tort and Suit in Assumpsit – Amount of Recovery Where There Has Been a Sale
- Constitutional Law – Criminal Law – Power of Federal Government to Commit Mentally Incompetent Persons Charged with Federal Crimes
- Corporations – Dividends – New Jersey Dividend Credit for Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock
- Bankruptcy – Limitations on Availability to Corporations of Arrangement Proceedings
- Regulation of Business – Sherman Act – Administration and Enforcement – A Re-Analysis of Consent Decrees
- Transfers of Joint Property in Contemplation of Death: A Call for Immediate Statutory Revision
- Constitutional Law – Courts-Martial – Power of Congress to Provide for Military Jurisdiction Over Civilians
- Dispositions of Property to Unincorporated Non-Profit Associations
- Estoppel and Crown Privilege in English Administrative Law
- Morris & Leach: The Rule Against Perpetuities
- Recent Books
- Negligence – Duty of Care – Duration of Status of “Driver” for Puropses of Guest Statute
- Corporations – Statutes Providing for Both Cumulative Voting and Classified Boards
- Corporations – Employee Stock Option Plans – Nature of Consideration Required for Valid Plan
- Constitutional Law – Freedom of Religion – Fluoridation of City Water
- Corporations – Officers and Directors – Agreement Interfering with Management by Board of Directors
Issue 2
- Constitutional Law – Eminent Domain – Condemnation of Riparian Lands Under the Commerce Power
- Regulation of Business – Jurisdiction of the Civil Aeronautics Board and the Federal Trade Commission – Investigations in the Interest of the Public
- Patents – Misuse Doctrine – Exclusive Distributorship Agreements as Patent Misuse
- Negligence – Breach of Duty – Assured Clear Distance Ahead Doctrine
- Constitutional Law – Grand Jury Under the Fifth Amendment Indictments Not Subject to Attack on Evidentiary Ground
- Dispositions of Property to Unincorporated Non-Profit Associations
- Conflicts of Law – Extended Application of Res Judicata in Administration of Decedents’ Estates
- Administrative Officers’ Tort Liability
- Morgan: Some Problems of Proof Under the Anglo-American System of Litigation
- Labor Law – Labor Management Relations Act – Unfair Labor Practice Strike Permitted During Sixty-Day “Cooling-Off” Period
- Torts – Nuisance – Personal Annoyance as Sole Injury
- Parsons, Penn, Raup: Land Tenure
- Taxation – Federal Income Tax – Secret Withdrawals of Corporate Receipts by Stockholders as Income in Absence of Surplus
- Compelling the Testimony of Political Deviants
- Periodical Index
- Corporations – Securities Regulation – Material Misstatements of Omissions of Fact Under the Securities Act of 1933
- Constitutional Law – Privilege Against Self-Incrimination -Effect of Immunity Statute
- Negligence – Breach of Duty – Liability of Telephone Company for Failure to Relay Fire Alarm
- Constitutional Law – Due Process – Notice Required to Validate Tax Foreclosure of Property of Known Mental Incompetent
- Recent Books
Issue 3
- Administrative Law – Judicial Review – Ripeness for Revew of an Interstate Commerce Commission Order
- Torts – Guest Statute – Carpools
- Torts – Parent and Child-Doctrine of Parental Immunity
- Corporations – Ultra Vires Act – Effectiveness of Action by Informal Meeting of Board of Directors
- Agency – Apparent Authority – Liability of Corporation on Unauthorized Note of General Manager
- Labor Law – Federal Pre-Emption – An Inroad Through the Violence Doctrine
- Periodical Index
- Wills – Construction – Conditional Wills
- Corporations – Stockholder’s Suit – Necessity of Demand on Other Stockholders in Derivative Action
- Taxation – Federal Income Tax Deductibility of Interest on Debentures Issues as a Dividend
- Trusts – Jurisdiction – Trustee and Trust Assets Outside Jurisdiction of Forum
- Wills – Execution – Attestation
- Torts – Misrepresentation – Knowledge of Falsity Unnecessary
- Compelling the Testimony of Political Deviants
- Workmen’s Compensation – Requirement of Causal Connection Between Employment and Injury
- Admiralty – Jurisdiction – Quasi -Contractual Remedy
- Constitutional Law – Post-Conviction Due Process – Right of Indigent to Review of Non-Constitutional Trial Errors
- Schwartz: The Code Napoleon and the Common Law World
Issue 4
- Corporations – Dividends – Date From Which Cumulative Dividends Accrue
- Recent Books
- Torts – Unauthorized Autopsy – Non-Survival of Action
- Restitution – Constructive Trust Relief for Breach of Oral Contract to Create Trust in Land
- Real Property – Landlord and Tenant – Need for Lessee Who Transfers Whole Term to Base Right of Re-Entry on Condition of “Substantial Advantage” to Him
- Municipal Corporations – Zoning – Exclusion of Churches from Residential Area
- Federal Criminal Procedure – Venue Situs of Crime of Failing to Perform Statutory Duty
- Corporations – Stockholders – Availability of Federal Remedy as Basis for Denial of Attorney Fees in Derivative Action
- Corporations – Securities: Regulation – Parent Corporation as Insider Realizing Shortswing Profit
- Antitrust – Resale Price Maintenance – Legality of Fair Trade Contracts Made by Integrated Firm
- Business Associations – Uniform Limited Partnership Act – Corporation as a Limited Partner
- Admiralty – Collision – Duty of Third Vessel to Give Warning
- Judicial Review in Europe
- Evidence – Search and Seizure – Standing to Suppress Evidence Obtained by Unconstitutional Search and Seizure
- Periodical Index
- Compulsory Joinder of Parties in Civil Actions
- Negligence – Duty of Care – Liability of Builder and Architect to Third Party
- Income Tax – Non-Business Bad Debt Deduction – Deduction for Partially Secured Bad Debt Deferable Until Liquidation of Collateral Regardless of Tax Avoidance Motive
- Chafee, Jr.: The Blessings of Liberty
- Garcia-Mora: International Law and Asylum as a Human Right
Issue 5
- Husband and Wife – Right of Wife to Sue for Loss of Consortium Due to Negligent Injury to Husband
- Periodical Index
- Recent Books
- Calamandrei: Procedure and Democracy
- Edwards: Big Business and the Policy of Competition
- Taxation – Income Tax – Accurabilty of Dealer Reserves Withheld by Finance Company
- Taxation – Federal Estate Tax – Interpretation of “In Fact” Clause of Section 2036 and Deductibility of Support Rights of Wife
- State Universities – Legislation Control of a Constitutional Corporation
- Patents – Misues Doctrine – Multiple Licenses with Price-Fixing Provisios as Shermen Act Violation
- Master and Servant – Independent Contractor – Inherent Danger Exception
- Rules of Practice and Procedure: A Study of Judicial Rule Making
- Corporations – Watered Stock – Rejection of Statutory Obligation Theory
- Corporations – Promotion – Discharge of Promoter’s Liability as Bidder at a Bankruptcy Sale
- Constitutional Law – Separation of Church and State – Bible Reading in the Public Schools
- Civil Procedure – Splitting Cause of Action – Voluntary Settlement of Part of Cause of Action as Bar to Suit
- Admirality – Jurisdiction – Action for Wrongful Death on the High Seas Limited to Admiralty
- Patents – Licensing – Legality of Grant-Back Clauses
- Corporations – Appraisal Statutes – Elements In Valuation of Corporate Stock
- The Status of the Collective Labor Agreement in France
Issue 6
- Eminent Domain – Restrictive Covenants – Compensability of Equitable Servitudes
- Lecht: Experience Under Railway Labor Legislation
- Creditor’s Rights – Fraudulent Conveyances – Security Assignment of Contract Payments Void if Assignor Retains Control
- Constitutional Law – State Action – Effect of State Court Interpretation of a Contract
- Administrative Law – Primary Administrative Jurisdiction – Construction and Reasonableness of Tariff Classification
- Atoms for Peace: The New International Atomic Energy Agency
- Labor Law – LMRA – Status of a Walkout Prompted by Health Reasons in the Face of a No-Strike Clause
- Civil Procedure – Joinder of Statutory Causes of Action with Common Law Negligence Where There Are Different Parties Defendant
- Real Property – Easements – Implied Easement of Access , Created by Conveyance with Reference to Plat, as Surviving Vacation of Street
- Regulation of Business-Civil Actions Under Section 3 of the Robinson-Patman Act
- Periodical Index
- Dunham and Kurland: Mr. Justice
- Trademarks – Extraterritorial Application of the Lanham Act
- Labor Law – Collective Bargaining – Duty of Employer to Substantiate Claim of Inability to Pay
- Aviation Law – Tort Liability for Damage to Persons or Property on the Ground – Res Ipsa Loquitur
- Trusts – Improved Real Estate – Validity of Depreciation Reserves
- Required Joinder of Claims
Issue 7
- Constitutional Law – Due Process – Adequacy of Notice by Publication
- Simes & Smith: The Law of Future Interests
- Future Interests – Rule Against Perpetuities – Recent Kentucky Legislation Pertaining to Administrative Contingencies
- Regulation of Business – Sherman Act – Concerted Refusals to Deal Not Illegal Per Se
- Municipal Corporations – Police Power – Constitutional Validity of Curfew Ordinance
- Federal Jurisdiction – Securities and Exchange Commission – Application of Rule X – 10B-5 to Transactions Involving Non-Securities
- Admiralty – Jones Act – Applicability to Dredge Employees as Seaman
- Federal Employee Invention Rights – Time to Legislate
- Regulation of Business – Robinson-Patman Act – Injury to Competition Between Buyers of Auto Parts
- Corporations – Liquidation Upon Deadlock in Closely-Held Corporation – Interpretion of Wisconsin Statute, Strong v. Fromm Laboratories,
- Required Joinder of Claims
- Workmen’s Compensation – Federal Employers’ Liability Act – Coverage Under 1939 Amendment
- Patents – The Changing Standard of Patentable Invention: Confusion Compounded
- Periodical Index
- Corportations – Cumulative Voting, Classified Boards and Proportional Representation
- Torts – Federal Tort Claims Act – Liability of United States for Negligence of Government Firemen
- Real Property – Landlord and Tenant – Lessor’s Arbitrary Withholding of Consent to Sublease
- Recent Books
- Labor Law – Labor-Management Relations Act – Strike During Life of Contract Under a Reopening Provision
- Future Interests – Construction – Implied Condition of Survivorship
Issue 8
- Regulation of Business – Patents – Effect of Section 271 on the Doctrine of Contributory Infringement
- Periodical Index
- Scott: The Law of Trusts (second edition).
- Wills – Lapse of a Residuary Gift
- Partnership – Partnership by Estoppel -Application to Tort Actions
- Labor Law – NLRA – “Roving Situs” Picketing as Violation of Section 8(b)(4)(A)
- Corporations – Shareholders – Delegation of Director’s Principal Duties Insufficient to Invalidate a Voting Trust
- Corporations – Officers and Directors – Liability for Inducing a Corporation to Breach Its Contracts
- Constitutional Law – Due Process – Jurisdiction of a State Court Over a Foreign Corporation
- Agency – Liability of Principal for Termination of Agents Employment
- The Union of Law and Equity
- Constitutional Law – Relation of Federal and State Governments Applicability of State Licensing Statute to Federal Contractors
- Real Property – Joint Tenancy – Effect of Contract to Convery by Joint Tenants of Entire Interest in Property as a Severance of the Joint Tenancy
- Torts – Uniform Contribution Among Tortfeasors Act – Effect of Release on Injured Person’s Claim
- Federal Procedure – Jurisdiction – Minimal Diversity Permitted By the Federal Interpleader Act Satisfies Constitutional Requirements
- Pierson: The Defense Attorney and Basic Defense Tactics; Defense Law Journal, Vol.1
- Real Property – Adverse Possession – Title Acquired by Husband and Wife
- Evidence – Examination of Witnesses – Surprise as Grounds for Impeaching a Party’s Own Witness
- Evidence – Dead Man’s Statute – Interpretation of “Transaction”
- Executive Compensation and Federal Securities Legislation
- Recent Books
- Torts – Recent Legislation – Parental Liability Statutes
- Torts – Guest Act – Negligent Conduct of the Driver