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25 Mass. L.Q. [i] (1940)

handle is hein.barjournals/malr0025 and id is 1 raw text is: VOLUME XXV.

NUMBER 1.

Massachusetts
Law Quarterly
JANUARY - MARCH, 1940
CONTENTS
PAGE
TENTATIVE DRAFT RULES FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE BAR
OF MASSACHUSETTS AS A SELF-GOVERNING BODY, PREPARED
IN 1938 FOR THE CONSIDERATION AND CRITICISM OF THE BENCH
AND BAR, AND NOW SUBMITTED FOR SUCH CONSIDERATION
AND CRITICISM IN CONNECTION WITH THE CONTINUED DIS-
CUSSION OF THE SUBJECT IN THIS COMMONWEALTH, AND THE
GROWTH OF THE ORGANIZATION MOVEMENT IN OTHER STATES                1
THE PRESENT STRUCTURE OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BAR ASSO-
C IA T IO N   ...........................................................................................  16
THIRD SUPPLEMENT TO THE SIXTH EDITION OF CROCKER'S NOTES ON COMMON
FORMS ............................................................................ Roger  D . Swaim  23
CORRECTION OF A PROoF-READING ERROR AS TO SUFFOLK COUNTY PROBATE COURT
IN THE 15TH  REPORT OF THE  JUDICIAL  COUNCIL ............................................  25
OUTLINE OF A STUDY IN THE DRAF TING OF WILLS AND TRUSTS: POWERS IN LIFE
TENANTS TO CONSUME PRINCIPAL' '-A LECTURE BY Professor Leach ................ 26
THE ENGLISH  FAMILY PROVISIONS ACT OF 1938 ...........................................  28
A LETTER TO THE JUDICIAL COUNCIL IN ANSWER TO REQUESTS FOR SUGGESTIONS IN
THE  15TH  REPORT ............................................................... Geoffrey  Bolton  29
MORE ABOUT THE STUPID PERSECUTION OF CHILDREN OVER THE FLAG SALUTE ... 31
THE  LAW  AT  CROSS  PURPOSES .......................................................................  32
A LESSON IN PROFESSIONAL INDEPENDENCE (From the Preface of Parke's History
of the Court of  Chancery  in  1828) .............................................................  33
JURISTS  ................... ..............................................................................  33
LORD  MANSFIELD AND  RELIGIOUS TOLEI!ANCE ..................................................  34
HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED SKETCH BY COPLEY FOR A PORTRAIT OF LORD MANS-
FIELD  ...............................................................................................  35
(By the Courtesy of the Boston Athenaeum)
LORD MANSFIELD AS A MODERN BUSINESS JUDGE ......................................  36
VERBOSITY AND THE LEGAL PROFESSION-A CRUSADER FOR ADEQUATE BREVITY
-REMARKS OF CHARLES A. BEARDSLEY, PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN BAR
A SSOCIATION  ............................................................................................  37
N OTE  ..................................................................................................  40
NOTICE OP REVISED RULES OF THE BOSTON MUNICIPAL COURT ............................. 40
Issued Quarterly by the
MASSACHUSETTs BAR ASSOCIATION, 60 State St., Boston, Mass.

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