Law

 Instructional Staf 1959-60

Maloney, Frank E., Dean; Black, Kenneth L.; Clark, Vernon W.; Crosby, Harold B.;
Day, James W.; Delony, Dexter; Enwall, Hayford O.; Farrell, John R.; Fenn, Henry
A.; Freeland, James J.; Glicksberg, Mandell; Hoyt, Brooks P.; Jones, Ernest M.; Jones,
T. Brooks; Krastin, Karl; McCoy, Francis T.; Macdonald, William D.; Mautz, Robert
B.; Nash, Charles P.; Okun, Joshua; Plager, Sheldon J.;* Powers, Leonard S.; Probert,
Walter; Stephens, Richard B.;* Weyrauch, Walter O.; Yonge, Phillip K.*


LW 501 (Formerly LW 401)-CONTRACTS I. 3 credits
An introduction to the law of business agreements; enforceability of promises; considera-
tion; formation and discharge of contracts.

LW 502 (Formerly LW 402)-CONTRACTS II. 2 credits
The effect of various types of non-performance on the rights and duties of the parties
to a business agreement; assignability of contracts; rights of third-party beneficiaries.

LW 511-LEGAL METHOD. 2 credits
The nature of law, its concepts, and the legal process; the language of the lawyer and
judge; steps in the evolution of a decision and its effect as a precedent.

LW 522-CIVIL PROCEDURE. 4 credits
The judicial system and the function of procedure in that system for the adjudication
of civil cases.

LW 531-PROPERTY I. 3 credits
Problems in possession; the bona fide purchaser of personal property; introduction to
the law of real property: types of estates, origin and development of methods of creating
and transferring estates; landlord and tenant.

LW 532-PROPERTY II. 2 credits
The modem land transaction: land contract, mortgage, deed, recording acts, methods
of title assurance; easements and licenses; rights incident to ownership of land.

LW 551-CONSTITUTIONAL LAW I. 2 credits
Principles and operation of judicial review; inter-governmental relationships in the
federal system's powers of Congress, the President and the states; restrictions on the
states.

LW 552-CONSTITUTIONAL LAW II. 2 credits
Individual procedural rights; impediments to legislative regulations; the impairment of
contracts; personal liberties-general, speech, press assembly, religion; the Fourteenth
Amendment; federal powers as to civil rights; citizenship.

 on leave of absence 1959-60.