Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington, as a moral offset to the anti-Five & Ten legal committees, steps were taken to organize a "Bar of the United States," composed of lawyers in Federal practice pledged to all law enforcement including Prohibition. Charles William Freeman headed the organizing committee, with William R. Vallance, Assistant Solicitor of the Department of State and president of the Federal Bar Association, as chief assistant. Only "earnest advocates" of law enforcement are eligible, though on Prohibition, "personal beliefs" would not be considered...
Between these two cases, as in a twilight zone, lies the treacherous field of common-law marriage. Only the hairline of intent divides such a legal union from the lover-mistress relationship...
States by statutes have decreed who shall be competent to marry, what persons shall be competent to perform marriage ceremonies. These laws are generally considered directory, not mandatory, and a marriage outside the statutory law−i.e., under common or unwritten law−is by implication a legal exception, quite valid if the faith and intent behind the contract are good. Common-law marriages are recognized by the courts of most of the older States east of the Mississippi. Some of the newer States by statute expressly prohibit such unions. No nonstatutory marriage can be positively stamped as valid until...
...Monday the Legal Aid Bureau closes its sixteenth consecutive year of service to members of the University and to a large number of Cambridge citizens who make use of it. The organization is now in the hands of its new officers, who were elected at a recent meeting: they are L. A. Blue 2L, president; C. T. Lane 2L, vice-president; E. A. Kniffin 2L, secretary; and J. E. Riely 2L, treasurer. These men will resume their work in the fall, and will continue in control till next April, when the organization again closes to allow the students to prepare...
Utilities. Two leading western utility companies will be joined when legal arrangements are completed for the control of Southern California Gas Corp. by Pacific Lighting Corp. Combined assets will...