Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heedful of President Hoover's call, the 71st Congress prepared to gather at the Capitol April 15 for its first or extraordinary session. Countless Congressmen remained in Washington after the Hoover Inaugural, but their consciences troubled them not at all at collecting from the U. S. their legal travel allowance of 20? a mile to carry them to their political homes and back. Two legislative subjects were to be dealt with at this special session: Farm Relief, Tariff Revision. Many another pressed forward hopefully for consideration. Chief of these were: 1) Repeal of the National Origins quota system...
Seventy people, including distinguished lawyers, legal journalists, and professors and students of the University Law School, are expected to be present at the annual dinner of the Harvard Law Review, which is to be held this evening at 7 o'clock at the Harvard Club of Boston...
...guest of honor of the affair will be Professor A. L. Goodhart of Cambridge University, American and English legal authority, and now visiting professor at the Yale Law School. After studying at Yale and Cambridge, he started his practice at the New York bar. In 1919 he was admitted to the English bar, and subsequently became a fellow and lecturer at Cambridge. In addition to these positions he is editor-in-chief of "The Law Quarterly Review" of that University...
Consequently he has placed the whole matter in the hands of a New York attorney who handles the legal transactions of the Actors Equity Association. Many complications in regard to the case have arisen, since the music in question has recently been copyrighted by Irving Berlin. It was supposed that the book "Laff It Off" was copyrighted in 1925. However there is no record of it in Washington...
...infinite circumstantial variations of the common-law marriage, most of them confused in intent and darkened by deliberate secrecy. Courts generally hold that the good faith of one party sustains such a union, regardless of the mental reservations of the other. Promiscuity, neglect, cruelty, etc., open the door to legal separation as in any statutory marriage. The secrecy usual in a lover-mistress relationship prevents its becoming a common-law marriage unless time dispels the cloak and establishes public and personal acceptance of the union...