Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan for the consolidation of the railway properties of the continental United States into a limited number of systems." Under this law the Commission must act just as if the Sherman Anti-Trust law were nullified by its provisions. Later the Supreme Court will decide whether such combinations are legal. The Court may hold that the Sherman Act applies only where the combination is to the public detriment...
...League occupied that part of the neutral zone allotted to them, but met with stiff resistance from the Lithuanians. Strictly speaking, Lithuania has incurred financial and economic penalties by resisting the decision of the League, although the time is hardly opportune for the enforcement of such punishment. From a legal point of view, however, neither country is bound to accept outside arbitration...
...been a commonplace in the last few years. Some people have used it as a text in attacking the institution of marriage. Others, less radical, have used it as a criticism of the inequality of our marriage and divorce laws. It is ridiculous that people should find it legal to do in one part of a country what is illegal in another part-as if morality were determined by state boundaries...
...condition which brought about their meeting was the fact that the law has ceased to be an accurate science. Too many diverse precedents, too much delay, too little agreement as to principles, too many conflicting statutes, too little precision in the use of legal terms, are the things to be remedied. In five years 62,000 statutes passed, and 65,000 court decisions upon them, convictions in less than ten per cent of the homicide cases brought before the courts, decisions reversed in one case out of three when cases are appealed to higher courts-these facts are disturbing...
What is the solution? Similar conditions have arisen before in the legal profession and have been solved. The solution has been a new codification of laws. Two great emperors had new codes drawn- Justinian and Napoleon. We have no emperor to do us that service, so the members of the legal profession are taking it upon themselves. They cannot by a stroke of the pen create a uniform code of laws for this country, but they hope, without legislation, to draw up a sort of handbook of legal procedure, to which all lawyers and judges may turn as authority...