American Law and Procedure, Volume 10

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James Parker Hall, James De Witt Andrews
La Salle Extension University, 1910 - Law
 

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Contents

Effects of changes of sovereignty
11
CHAPTER II
14
Extraterritorial acts in selfdefense 115
15
Intervention
16
Interventions of right
17
Interventions that are only justifiable
18
Intervention against wrongdoing
19
Intervention to secure balance of power
20
Distinction between law and policy as basis for interven tion
21
Extent of territory acquired by discovery
22
CHAPTER III
23
Discovery and occupation
24
Boundaries of state territories
28
52
29
35
31
SECTION 3
40
Merchant vessels
51
Acceptance of diplomatic agents
52
Documents
53
Refusal to accept particular individuals as agents 60 Termination of diplomatic missions
54
Immunity of diplomatic agents
56
SECTION 2
57
Negotiation and ratification
58
Validity of treaties
59
Implied conditions in treaties
60
Interpretation
61
Conflicts with other treaties or laws
62
Extinction and renewal
63
SECTION 3
64
International arbitration
65
Retorsion
66
Reprisals
67
CHAPTER V
69
Effect of war on treaties
70
Peaceful intercourse between enemies
77
Between Belligerent and Neutral States
78
55
80
Confiscation of public and private debts
83
106 Use of deceit and spies
89
114 Definition of neutrality
95
125 Same continued
102
107 Privateering
107
Damages distinguished from injury and damage
109
Excessive damages
116
Nominal damages recoverable for every breach of con
122
Exemplary damages within jurys discretion
128
Principal considerations in determining whether damages
136
In general
139
Difficulty of measuring damage by monetary standards
145
Application in contract
151
SECTION 4
164
Illustrations
165
65
171
71
175
Interests in realty
181
Interests in personalty
182
CHAPTER VI
184
Breach by vendee
185
Breach by vendee
186
Breach by vendor
187
SECTION 2
188
Breach of covenant of seisin
190
Breach of covenants of warranty and quiet enjoyment
191
Breach of covenant against encumbrances
192
Effect of recital of consideration in deed
193
SECTION 3
194
Contract to pay anothers debt
195
Contract to marry
197
In general
198
When action is for trespass to personal property
199
When action is for conversion of personal property
200
Prevailing tendency to disregard forms
201
SECTION 5
202
Pain and suffering of deceased
203
Grief and loss of society
204
Excessive verdicts
205
BANKRUPTCY 1 Outline
207
CHAPTER I
209
Earliest English bankruptcy law
210
Progress in bankruptcy legislation
211
State versus Federal bankruptcy laws
212
CHAPTER II
214
Who may be voluntary bankrupts
215
Who may be involuntary bankrupts
216
Inclusion of corporations strictly construed
217
State bankruptcy laws operative where Federal law does not apply
219
Business in which corporation is engaged and not charter powers control
220
Conveyances both to pay past debt and to defraud creditors
230
Exchanging nonexempt for exempt property
231
Voluntary conveyances
232
Proof of solvency
233
Future creditors may attack fraudulent conveyances
235
How intent to defraud future creditors shown
236
Assignments with preferences
237
Preferences
238
Statutory admissions by debtor
239
Voluntary cases
240
Issues presented for determination
241
SECTION 5
242
Election and qualification of trustee
243
To take possession of property 46 Same To set apart bankrupts exemptions
244
To bring suit to recover property and assets
245
To reduce all property to money and pay dividends
246
Compensation of trustee
247
Time and manner of vesting title
248
63
259
Illustrations
265
Insolvency
271
111 Modes of termination of
274
CHAPTER V
277
87
279
Secondary liabilities upon commercial paper
285
107 Debts not discharged
292
116 Destroying concealing or failing to keep books of account
298
118 Procuring property on credit upon a false written state ment
299
119 Previous voluntary discharge within six years
300
NOTE 121 Advantages to creditors of national law over diverse state laws
301
JUDGMENTS 1 Outline
303
Illustrations
305
What is a court
306
Compliance with statutory re quirements
308
Submission of question to court
309
Judgments binding property
310
Personal judgments
311
Opportunity to be heard
312
Summary of essentials of judgments
313
Kinds of judgments
314
SECTION 2
315
Formal record of judgment
317
Journal entries and files
318
Justice court records
320
Questions regarding essentials of record
321
What must always appear
322
Early doctrine
323
Doctrine does not apply to inferior courts
324
Records of superior domestic courts conclusive on collateral attack
325
What courts may vacate modify and amend judgments
326
Such action during the term
327
Modern practice as to relief after the term
328
Why judgments estop
329
Essentials of estoppel by judgment
330
What matters are res judica
331
Causes of action and defences which are barred
332
Application of doctrine of merger
333
Only cause of action sued on and defences to it are ex tinguished
335
What matters aside from claims counterclaims and de fences are concluded
336
Judgments in rem and in personam
338
In what suits judgments bind parties and privies
339
42 Who are parties
340
Judgment essential
341
Rule in Hadley v Baxendale
342
Judgment must be final on merits and subsisting
344
Judgment must be in personam
345
Satisfaction of judgment and subsequent rights
346
ATTACHMENTS GARNISHMENTS AND EXECUTIONS CHAPTER I
347
Enforcement by coercion
348
8
352
Grounds or exigencies of issue
358
SECTION 3
364
38
369
48
375
57
381
62
386
69
393
CHAPTER IV
399
Grounds enumerated
406
92
411
101 Modern American rule
417
108 Procedure
423
118 In attachment and garnishment
427
125 By setting off against other judgments
433
Appendix A International Law
440
Bankruptcy
448
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Page 325 - In considering the operation of this judgment, it should be borne in mind, as stated by counsel, that there is a difference between the effect of a judgment as a bar or estoppel against the prosecution of a second action upon the same claim or demand, and its effect as an estoppel in another action, between the same parties, upon a different claim or cause of action.
Page 250 - ... rights of action arising upon contracts or from the unlawful taking or detention of, or injury to, his property.
Page 245 - Property which prior to the filing of the petition he could by any means have transferred...
Page 3 - It has also been observed that an act of congress ought never to be construed to violate the law of nations if any other possible construction remains...
Page 324 - ... the judgment of a court of concurrent jurisdiction, directly upon the point, is as a plea, a bar, or as evidence, conclusive, between the same parties, upon the same matter, directly in question in another court...
Page 157 - Where two parties have made a contract which one of them has broken, the damages which the other party ought to receive in respect of such breach of contract should be such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally — ie, according to the usual course of things, from such breach of contract itself — or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of the breach of it.
Page 76 - The occupying State shall be regarded only as administrator and usufructuary of public buildings, real estate, forests, and agricultural estates belonging to the hostile State, and situated in the occupied country. It must safeguard the capital of these properties, and administer them in accordance with the rules of usufruct.
Page 325 - It is a finality as to the claim or demand in controversy, concluding parties and those In privity with them, not only as to every matter which was offered and received to sustain or defeat the claim or demand, but as to any other admissible matter which might have been offered for that purpose.
Page 281 - ... wages due to workmen, clerks, or servants which have been earned within three months before the date of the commencement of proceedings, not to exceed three hundred dollars to each claimant; and (5) debts owing to any person who by the laws of the States or the United States is entitled to priority.
Page 3 - International law is part of our law, and must be ascertained and administered by the courts of justice of appropriate jurisdiction, as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for their determination.

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