Insurable interest-sole ownership Life insurance against crime or miscarriage of justice Suicide-sanity-rational intent INTERSTATE COMMERCE-Original packages-cigarettes INTOXICATING LIQUORS-Civil damage—liability Delivery by common carrier C. O. D.-necessity for license. JOINT TORT FEASORS-Release of one releases all .... JUDGMENTS-Joint-Payment by one judgment debtor JURISDICTION-Controversy between states-diversion of water State boundaries-adjacent waters... Reformation Statute of Frauds-specific performance LIBEL-Newspaper corporation-malice of reporter-punitive damages.. 395 LIMITATIONS, STATUTE OF-Notes-acknowledgment of debt Notes-demand after date ..... 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PRINCIPAL AND AGENT-Undisclosed agent-time for election PRINCIPAL AND SURETY-Payment of usurious debt by surety-estoppel of PUBLICATION-Literary property-collecting information-distribution 460 PUBLIC POLICY-Condition in deed-grain elevator SALES-On sidewalk-theatre tickets-transferability SCHOOLS-Reading the Bible in common schools SIDEWALK-Defect-what constitutes SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE-Vendor and purchaser-mistake STARE DECISIS-Special legislation in Ohio Collateral inheritances-situs of personal property Educational institutions-opera house tax Exemptions-educational institutions Local assessment-liability of school district Statutory exemptions-land owned by city TELEGRAPHS-Disclosure of calls-tapping wire-negligence Uncertainty of beneficiaries in charitable trusts 112 "VOLENTI NON FIT INJURIA”—Duty imposed by statute 239 WATERS-Percolation-diversion Rights of land owner in subterranean waters-reasonable use ...... WILLS-Division of surplus accumulations as between the life bene- ficiary and the remainder-man Probate-testamentary capacity-experts-instructions USURY-Building loans-what law governs Abbot, Austin-Criminal Trial Brief 182 Benjamin, R. M.-General Principles of the American Law of the Sale Camp, Edgar W.-The Encyclopedia of Evidence, Vol. 1. Chapman, Henry C.-A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence, Insanity and Toxicology Clement, G. A.-Probate Reports Annotated, Vol. VI. 518 517 113 ..... ..... Crothers, T. D.-Morphinism and Narcomanias from Other Drugs 52 ...... 400 Dill, James B.-Corporation Law of New Jersey, with Corporation Prece- 180 Dillon, John F.-Life, Character and Judicial Services of John Mar- 515 Dos Passos, John R.-Commercial Trusts 336 Dresser, F. F.-Employers' Liability Acts and the Assumption of Risks 53 Hodgins, Thomas-The Alaska-Canada Boundary Dispute 254 Howard, J. Q.-History of the Louisiana Purchase Ingalls, Mrs. J. J. and Connelly, W. E.-The Writings of John James 400 Jenkyns, Henry-British Rule and Jurisdiction Beyond the Seas 255 397 Knowlton, J. C.-Cases on Criminal Law... 519 Magoon, C. E.-Reports on the Law of Civil Government 50 MacDonald, Arthur-A Laboratory for the Study of Criminal Pauper and Defective Classes ... 53 Morse, John T.-The Law of Banks and Banking 333 Newell, Grant-Elements of the Law of Real Property 181 Noyes, W. C.-The Law of Intercorporate Relations 255 Peterson, F. and Haines, W. S.-A Text-book of Legal Medicine and 517 Smith, Horace E.-Studies in Juridical Law 114 Snow, Alpheus H.-The Administration of Dependencies 336 Snyder, W. I.—The Law of Mines and Mining Rights 335 Stearns, A. A.-The Law of Suretyship 399 Thompson, B. M.-Cases on Equity Pleading and Practice 518 Tiffany, H. T.-The Law of Real Property and Other Interests in Land 464 Injuries 401 YALE LAW JOURNAL VOL. XII No. I NOVEMBER, 1902 THE MISSION OF GOV. TAFT TO THE VATICAN. The mission of Gov. Taft to the Vatican, last Summer, is, to students of constitutional or international law, one of the most interesting incidents of the state of things which has grown out of our treaty of 1899 with Spain. The diplomatic relations of the United States are under the control of the President. Whoever represents them before a foreign government bears a commission from him, and receives his instructions through the Department of State. The President, as to our foreign relations, stands for the sovereignty of the United States. As the depositary of this sovereign power, he addresses himself only to sovereigns. The mission of Gov. Taft was to one not recognized by the President as a sovereign, yet who claims a place as such, and whose claims are recognized by several of the powers of Europe. The Pope, be he a temporal sovereign or not, holds a position of supreme authority over the most ancient and widely extended of Christian churches. The question which the situation in the Philippines called upon us to face was one as to which an expression of the Pope's pleasure would be likely to be final, as regards any interests opposed to those of the United States. It was deemed by the civil authorities in the Philippines highly desirable to obtain his approval of such measures as might best tend to the removal of the friars from the islands and the relinquishment of their vast landed possessions. How was he to be approached? |