Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Cabinet system secures a uniform and progressive legislative policy: Bradford, Practical workings of our Gov't. 8; Bryce, Chap...
...first place there was nothing novel in that proposal. The Yale and, Harvard nines have repeatedly played off a tie after Commencement Day. Indeed until Yale declined last year to follow the uniform precedents of twenty years, no question was ever raised as to the propriety of an arrangement like that proposed by us. Nor do we see how it could be more difficult for your nine to play ball as late as the Thursday or the Saturday of Commencement week than it is for your crew to row on Friday of that week...
...Absence of uniformity is the worst evil: Pop. Sci. Mo., XXIII. 224. - (a) It increases the number of divorces: Lalor, III. 808; Pamphlet by S. W. Dike. - (b) It weakens the respect for law in general: Forum, II. 430. - (c) It gives rise to endless confusion: Century, I. 419; Convers, 220-230; Princeton Review, IX. 9 -92. - (1) As to status of the parties in other states. - (2) As to property-rights. - (3) As to legitimacy of children. (d) A uniform remedy should be applied to a uniform evil: Forum...
...Uniformity can be secured only by constitutional amendment: New Englander, XLIII. 65. - (a) No hope for uniform state laws: Public Opinion, VIII. 106 - Failure of efforts of American Bar Ass'n: Forum, II. 437. - (b) Amendment would not be difficult: Forum...
...unnecessary. - (a) No serious diversity in State laws exists: Lloyd, 269. - (1) Actual residence of considerable duration required, etc.: Woolsey, Divorce and Divorce Laws, 215. - (b) Abuse due to laxity of judicial administration: N. A. Rev., 149, 517 (Apr., 1887). - (c) Uniform divorce law would not remedy abuse. - (1) In four-fifths of cases divorce occurred in same state as marriage...