The Johnson prize essays from various law schools.
By: Edited by George Wharton Pepper ...
Publisher: T. & J.W. Johnson & Co.
Published: 1890
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 606
Subjects: Law.
Notes: Each essay has special t.-p.
--The legal and equitable theories of the rights of mortgagor and mortgagee, by C.J. Gallagher.--The law relating to negotiable paper in West Virginia, by H.L. Robinson.--A summary of the law of wills, by John Conlon.--Government and the telegraph, by D.A. Greene.--Caveat emptor, by C.F. Whittle.--The extent and limitations of the doctrine of respondeat superior, by E.P. Harrington.--Privilege of witnesses, by F.D. Smith.--The history of the law of pensions, together with a summary of the pension laws of the United States, by O.G. Eckstein.
Table of contents: title: The law relating to mercantile agencies, by J.W. Errant.; title: The transfer of negotiable paper as collateral security, by L.L. Smith.; title: What instruments are negotiable, and under what circumstances will the holder or indorsee of a negotiable instrument take the same discharged from equities, by J.M. Hawthorne.; title: The requisites of a good law school text-book, by D.R. Gale.; title: International copyright, by W.P. Holcombe.; title: The execution of trusts by the statute of uses in Maryland, by J.P. O'Ferral.; title: Ultra vires, by G.T. Kelly.; title: Homestead exemption in Illinois, by E.P. Holly.; title: An inquiry as to the validity of deeds completed or materially altered, int the absence of the grantor or abligor, by an agent acting under parol authority, by Joseph Barton.; title: Drunkenness in extenuation of murder, by A.W. Comstock.