The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-08-30
LAWYERS. FAVOR
UNIFORM LAWS
4
Two Sections of American Bar
Association Have Recon-
mended General Policy

boston, aug. ga recommendation
that the American Bar association op-
pose any attempt toward the repeal
OF the national bankruptcy act is con-
tanned in the report of the committee
on commercial law, presented last
night at the annual meeting of the
association in this city. The commit
tee urges that the association exert
every endeavor to secure the defeat
of the bill to repeal the bankruptcy
act introduced by Representative Clay
ton and now pending in congress.
Other recommendations made by the
committee are:
That the American Bar association
give all assistance in its power in Sc
curing the enactment of the uniform
acts on negotiable instruments, ware
house receipts. sales, bills of lading,
and transfer of stock.
That the committee on commercial
law give further consideration to the
subject Of federala legislation on bills
Of lading and hold public meetings
for the purpose OF obtaining the opin-
ions Of experts thereon
That the American Bar association
approve the purpose of the interna-
ftional conference#fo the unification
Of laws concerning bills of exchange
and .promissory notes, and urge the
continued participation Of the United
States in the conferences, and that
the committee on commercial law be
given power to take up with the COM
mittee on international law the SUBJ
ject Of said confetence.
| The uniform acts mentioned in the
recommendations have been passed
in many states, al follows:
| Negotiable instrlm apts act, thirty
1ves states, two territories, two pos
sessions. and the District of Colum-
bia:' warehouse act, twenty-one states
and territories and the District of
columbia; sales act. eight states and
one territory; bills of lading act, six
states; transfer of stock act, five
states.
Uniform Law.
/ Acts relative to wife and child deser-
tion and to the probating in one state
OF wills made in another were
recommended for endorsement by the
association in the report Of the COM
| m1ttee on uniform state laws submit
ted at last nights session. The re-
port states that the desertion act al
ready has been passed in five states,
Washington, Kansas, Rhode Island,
Michigan and Wisconsin. 1t provides
for punishment of deserters by i'm
prisonment at hard labor, portion Of
the proceeds of such labor to be de-
voted to the support Of the deserted
f.. wife or children. While the commit
/ tee does not deem it advisable to rec
ommend the passage of this specific
/ act In all states, owing to the diversity
Of state laws on the subject of i'm
prisonment at hard labor and the in
ternal management of penal institu-
tions 1t urges that the bar association
endorse the principle Of the act.
The so-called foreign Wills act has
been passed in the states of Kansas,
North Dakota. Massachusetts, and Wis
consin. Under its provisions a will
executed in any state in the mode pre-
scribed by the law Of that state or
of the state in which the testator was
his legal domicile will be of the same
force and effect in the states adopt
ing this act, even though the latter
states may have laws not complied
with in execution Of the will. Tho
committee recommends the endorse
ment by the association of this act
as desirable for adoption in every
state.
The progress of the movement for
! uniformity OF state laws on various
subjects, as promoted by the confer
ence OF commissioners on uniform
state laws, is shown in the following
statistics presented In the report:
"The warehouse receipts act in
twenty-one. states and territories and
the District of Columbia.
"The sales act in eight states and
one territory.
1.-THE uniform divorce act in three
states.
"The stock transfer act in five states.
"The bills Of lading act in six
states.
"The willis act in four states.
"The family desertion act in five
states.
"All Of the states. territories and
possessions are now represented in
the conference, either by virtue Of leg
islative action or otherwise, excepting
the state Of Nevada"
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