Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their titles are respectively "The Common Law in the United States," "Statutory Developments in Business Corporation Law," and "Fifty Years of Trusts." In each the writer carries out Mr. Hand's initial contention that "The legal relations between the individual and the community which arise out of the production and distribution of property, comprise by far the greater, and more important, part...
...Trustees are in a different category from alumni. They at least have the undoubted legal right to control the institution. . . . But a university that is run by its trustees will be badly run. How can it be otherwise? Ordinarily the trustees are not educators; usually they are nonresident. If they are alumni, they must overcome the vices inherent in that interesting group. If of their own motion they take an education problem in hand, they can decide rightly only by accident...
...artist. In his stories about stalking his game, often in a punt with a large shotgun fixed onto the bow, and often shooting by moonlight, Wildfowler Scott will puzzle gunners in the U. S. where such practices are barred and only his "shoulder gun," in daylight, is legal. But U. S. readers will not long question the rightful membership of Peter Scott in best shooting circles when they read: "There is a peculiar aura that surrounds in my mind anything and every thing to do with wild geese...
Said Mr. Maxwell in London: "I have no fears of the threats coming from America of our transaction being stopped by legal proceedings...
...vice president in charge of sales, though he is still a director. He set a lawyer to work to right his alleged wrongs. In ordinary corporate practice the argument that a company may not vote its own stock is watertight. In the Ayer case there is certainly room for legal debate because the question involves the exercise of an option under an agreement in which the corporation is now interested as a stockholder, not a stock issuer. To settle the question Adman Thornley announced last week that he had filed suit in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas...