Harvard Law Review/Volume 1/Index

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ARTICLES.
Anarchists’ Case before the Supreme Court of the United States	307
Brief Survey of Equity Jurisdiction	55, 111, 355
Chandelor v. Lopus	191
Conflict of Laws as applied to Assignments for Creditors	259
Creditor’s Right to his Surety’s Securities	326
Criticisms Upon Henry George, Reviewed from the Stand-point of Justice	265
Legal Tender	73
Nature of a Policy of Insurance with Regard to its Assignability	388
Osborn v. The Bank of the United States	223
Privity of Contract	226
Purchase for Value without Notice	1
Recovery of Money paid under Mistake of Fact	211
Responsibilities of American Lawyers	232
Subsequent Payments under Resulting Trusts	185
Test of a Regulation of foreign or Interstate Commerce	159
Tickets	17
“Trusts”	132
CASES.
Assets.⁠What is a claim against the government?	348
Assignment of unearned salary void	405
Attorney and Client.⁠Attorney may dismiss suit	105
Fiduciary relation	47
Agency.⁠Authority of Town Treasurer	405
Ratification	204, 253
Reservation of agent’s commission not usury	253
Vice-principal	348
See Master and Servant.
Bills and Notes.⁠Bona fide purchaser	405
Certificate of deposit, when outlawed	255
Consideration	106
See Promissory Note; Equity Jurisdiction.
Carriers.⁠Liability of sleeping-car companies	49
For personal baggage only	405
Limit of liability	105
Misdelivery of freight	348
Rights of passengers	348
Limiting liability	348
Certificate of Deposit.⁠Statute of Limitations	253

Champerty.⁠Contingent fees	154
Conspiracy.⁠Boycott	154
Constitutional Law.⁠Act impairing obligation of contracts	405
Amending indictment	106
Citizens—Indians (Moot Court)	149
Due process of law—Judgment against non-resident	106
Prohibitory Liquor Law	304
Former Jeopardy	106
Interstate commerce—“Drummer tax”	108
Power to bridge navigable waters	154
Statutes affecting railroad engineers	405
Police power	204, 405
Privileges and immunities	348
Contract.⁠Compromise of a disputed claim	154
Conditions; measure of damages	154
Consideration	155
Failure of plaintiff to perform fully; liability of defendant in implied contract	155
Gambling—“Futures”	107
Implied in fact	106
Sale of good will	108
Mistake; failure of consideration	155
Rescission; mutual mistake	155
Right of third party to sue	106, 155
Tender of performance unnecessary	405
Where broken	349
See Quasi-Contracts.
Corporations.⁠Cannot escape charter liability by letting their property	254
Directors liable for negligence	205
Liable for conspiracy	204
Liability for stock subscription; bona fide purchaser	351
National bank; transfer of stock	351
Transfer of stock (Moot Court)	245
Conversion.⁠By mortgagee	254
Covenants running with the land (Club Court)	301
Courtesy.⁠When husband not entitled to	405
Criminal Law.⁠Adultery	204
Conspiracy; corporation liable	204
Larceny	156
Lucri causa	107
Libel, on the dead	49
Privileged communication; mercantile agency	156
Publication	156
Moral insanity; intoxication	255
Murder; death caused by neglect	157
Damages.⁠Measure of	154, 257, 408
Deed.⁠Building restriction	155
Conveyance by warranty—Estoppel (Club Court)	199
See Escrow.
Divorce.⁠Desertion (Moot Court)	38
Duress.⁠Of principal no defence to surety	47

Easement.⁠Elevated railroad	107
Right of way	205
Telephone poles in streets	254
Way by prescription	256
Ejectment.⁠Mesne profits—Statute of Limitations	47
Equity Jurisdiction.⁠Accounts—Complication	107
Bill of peace	254, 349
Enforcing parol gift of land	254
Restraining criminal prosecution	254
Specific performance, injunction refused	47
of negative agreement	406
Escrow.⁠Effect of deed to wife	406
Revocation	107
Estoppel.⁠By conduct	107
By deed (Club Court)	199
Evidence.⁠Book entries	349
Character of deceased—Homicide	107
Comparison of handwriting	204
Dying declaration	155
Handwriting	107
Judicial notice	255
Parol evidence rule—Ambiguity in will	406
Receipt	106
(Moot Court)	299
Rape; fresh complaint	156
Real, without oath	204
Res gesta	107
See Witness.
Executor de son Tort	406
Fiduciaries.⁠Attorney and client	47
Found Property.—Right to possession	406
Fraudulent Conveyances.⁠By a grantee back to his fraudulent grantor	349
Marriage settlement	349
Preference of a creditor	349
Voluntary; marriage settlement	257
Gambling.⁠Gaming note	256
General Average.⁠Passengers’ baggage	349
Growing Crops.⁠Cutting them a conversion	109
Infancy.⁠What are necessaries	204
Injunction.⁠Specific performance	47
Insurance.⁠By mortgagee	350
Change of beneficiary; trust	156
Fire—Subrogation	406
Subrogation (Club Court)	102
Life—Insurable interest (Club Court)	402
Rights of company against incendiary where suhrogation impossible (Club Court)	152
Intoxicating Liquors.⁠Prohibition; damnum absque injuria	156
What constitutes a sale	48
Judicial Notice	255

Letters.⁠Receiver may not sell	255
Libel.⁠Publication	406
See Criminal Law.
Life-Tenant.⁠Liability for betterments	108
Malicious Prosecution.⁠Entry of nolle pros.	350
Marriage.⁠What constitutes	407
Master and Servant.⁠Course of employment	108
Discharge without notice	157
Wrongful interference with the relation	158
Mortgage.⁠After-acquired property	157
Conversion of chattel by mortgagee	254
Foreclosure	205
Subsequent lease by mortgagor	255
Negligence.⁠Burden of proof	157, 407
Contributory	106
Blind man	108
Identification of passenger with carrier	108
Injury to stock from barbed-wire fence	350
Unlikely accident	350
Liability of bank directors	204
Presumption of	255
Proximate cause	157
When no liability for	407
Notice.⁠Contract to sell land	107
Quitclaim deed	108, 157
Partnership.⁠Accommodation note	255
As to third persons	407
Deed to firm under firm-name	351
Liability in joint enterprise	205
Voluntary associations	205
What amounts to dissolution	407
Party-wall.⁠Notice of agreement	106
Pledge; discharge	256
Power of Appointment, Effect of	407
Promissory Note.⁠Accommodation note given by a partner	256
Accommodation; on demand	205
Gaming consideration	256
Indorsement complete upon delivery	107
Purchaser for Value without Notice.⁠Creditor is not	205
From a garnishee, protected	406
Liability for unpaid stock subscription	351
See Notice; Pledge; Bills and Notes.
Quasi-Contracts.⁠Accidental benefit	48
Goods sold and delivered	351
Improvement of land under mistake (Club Court)	40
Not contracts in meaning of statute	108
Use and occupation	256
Rule against Perpetuities.⁠Charitable Trust	407
Sale.⁠By sample; caveat emptor	205
Conditional—Innocent purchaser	47, 407
Questions for jury	105

Measure of damages	408
Unascertained goods	158
Social Relations.⁠Wrongful interference	158
See Conspiracy.
Specific Performance	255
When injunction granted	47
Statute of Frauds.⁠Parol agreement for an easement	158
Sale of chattel; executory contract	158
Promise to pay another’s debt	48
Performance within a year	108
Statute of Limitations.⁠Acknowledgement by bankrupt	408
Certificate of deposit	253
Effect on title	48
Ground for demurrer	256
Mesne profits	47
Stock.⁠See Corporations.
Subrogation.⁠Judgment lien paid by surety continues for his benefit	108
Surety paying only part of debt	108
Volunteer cannot claim	408
Surety.⁠Duress of principal no defence to	47
Promise to pay anotber’s debt	48
See Subrogation.
Telegraph.⁠Error in message	206
Limiting liability	109
Telephone poles in streets	254
Tort.⁠Injury from barbed-wire fence (Club Court)	40
Trust.⁠Charging trust estate	408
Declaration of; imperfect gift	257
Imperfect gift	158
Resulting—Consideration need not be pecuniary	47
Secret; parol evidence	206
Trustee or debtor	158
Usury.⁠Reservation of commission by an agent	253
Water Rights	206
Wills.⁠Illegitimate children born after the making of the will	206
Interpretation of condition	258
Nuncupative; witness incompetent	408
Parol evidence to interpret	406
Void life-estate; reversioner not advanced	258
Witness.⁠Exclusion at trial	206
Expert; refusal to answer	158
Of nuncupative will incompetent	408
CORRESPONDENCE.
Columbia Law School	251
Justice of Private Property in Land	344
Two Recent “Trust” Cases	201
United States Supreme Court Cases	43
LECTURE NOTES.
Choses in Action.⁠Transfer of	41
Contract.⁠Choses in action; transfer of	41

Consideration void in part	104
Sale without a contract	250
Equity.⁠Specific performance; equitable conversion and ownership	42
Mutuality of remedy	104
“Equitable estate;” strict significance of term	402
Evidence.⁠Definition of “evidence”	247
Infancy.⁠Liability of infant for deceit in inducing a sale	403
Real Property.⁠Landlord and tenant; rights of landlord when part of demised property has, without fraud, been included in a prior lease to third party	201
Statute of Limitations; joinder of times by successive disseisors	248
Sales.⁠Sale without a contract	250
Liability of infant for deceit in inducing a sale	403
Statute of Frauds.⁠Effect on creation of trusts in land	301
Statute of Limitations.⁠Joinder of times by successive disseisors	248
Trusts.⁠Wrongful conversion of trust fund; rights of beneficiary	103
Voluntary	199
Language necessary to create a trust	247
Effect of Statute of Frauds on creation of trusts in land	301
Strict legal significance of term “equitable estate.”	402
NOTES	35, 98, 144, 196, 241, 294, 338, 399
REVIEWS.
A’Becket, Comic Blackstone	209
Benjamin on Sales.⁠Edited by Bennett	352
Bishop, Commentaries on the Law of Contracts	109
Black on Constitutional Prohibitions	53
Bracton’s Note Book.⁠Edited by Maitland	351
Carson on Criminal Conspiracies	258
Columbia Law Times	209
Davis, The Law in Shakespeare	54
Dole, Talks about Law	53
Hare on The Law of Contracts	50
Interstate Commerce Commission, First Annual Report	354
Lloyd on The Law of Divorce	210
McGrath, The Doctrine of Cy Pres applied to Charities	210
Meredith and Tate, Supplement to Formation and Regulation of Corporations in Pennsylvania	210
Metcalf on Contracts.⁠Edited by Heard	353
Morawetz on Corporations, 2d edition	109
National Law Review	354
National Reporter System	53
Nichol’s Hand-book of Insurance Law	210
Piggott on the Law of Torts	210
Pollock on the Law of Torts	54
Ralston, The Discharge of Contracts	54
Rawle on Covenants for Title, 5th edition	208
Schouler on Bailments, 2d edition	207
Sharswood, An Essay on Professional Ethics	54
Thompson, The Student’s Kent	54