Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Defeated a bill to make Lincoln's birthday a legal holiday in the District of Columbia...
...British contention seemingly was that, as the U. S. was not a signatory of the Versailles Treaty, she has no legal right to share in reparations paid by Germany. Even the fact that the Treaty of Berlin (the separate treaty of peace concluded by the U. S. and Germany) expressly reserves to the U. S. those rights which would have been hers had she signed the Versailles instrument in no way altered the circumstances, as it was pointed out that Washington had never .secured the consent of the Allies to the Berlin Treaty. The opinions of France, Belgium and Italy...
Uniformity of the law is the aim and hope of the legal student. A step in that direction is the gradual centralization of the lawmaking power in the Federal Government. This development, however, conflicts with deeprooted conviction as to states' rights; and most lawyers look with more satisfaction to the growth of uniformity by the adoption of uniform laws by the different states. Today, every state has adopted one or more of the uniform laws drafted and recommended by the Commission on Uniform State Laws-a body of distinguished jurists, lawyers and law teachers closely affiliated with the American...
...problem of the illegitimate child is as old as the institution of marriage. The first policy of the law was to refuse such offspring any legal recognition. As early, however, as 1575, one finds an English statute providing that, when a bastard was born in any parish, the local justices of the peace might order the child to be kept by the public authorities and compel either the mother or the reputed father to contribute to its support. The Norwegian law is today considered the most enlightened legislation on the subject. It gives the child the right to be supported...
...York, the legal world has been exercised by the statement of one Meier Steinbrink, that "many of the Supreme Court judges in Brooklyn and Manhattan are lazy." Mr. Steinbrink, in a published interview, went on to say that many of the judges were "not worth $1,700 a year as law clerks instead of the $17,500 they are receiving as judges." It was at once proposed that the Brooklyn Bar Association investigate these charges, but Edward J. Byrne, its president, stated such an investigation would be futile as "laziness was a relative term and nobody was competent to determine...