Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard Law School Association offers a prize of $100 for the best essay on any of the following subjects: (1) The principle underlying the maxim volentianon fit injursa and the application of the maxim in cases where a servant sues a master to recover damages resulting from the master's failure to comply with the statutory requirements designed to secure the safety of the servant. (2) The extent to which in the United States private rights of property may be effected without compensation by the exercise of the police power. (3) The obligation of railroad companies impliedly assumed...
...Boylston medical society met yesterday afternoon. E. H. Nichols, M. D., read an essay on the "Diagnosis of Blood Stains in Criminal Cases...
Leading articles in the Nov. number of the Low Review are the second part of Mr. Samuel Williston's "History of the Law of Businest Corporations before 1800," and Mr. Austin Abbott's paper on "Indians and the Law." Mr. Wiliiston's essay, which was begun in the October number. was written for the prize offered last year by the Harvard Law School Association. While the main purport of the essay is to treat of the development of the law of corporations, the more popular aspect of these institutions as shown in their external history and in their influence...
...Herbert Henry Darling of the class of 1889, has been awarded the Summer Prize ($100) for 1887-88 for an essay on "Great National Armaments in Time of Peace." The judges were Prof. Ames and Prof. Emerton...
...Toppan Prize has been awarded to Mr. James Harvey Robinson, A. B., 1887, for an essay on "The Original and Derived Features of the Constitution of the United States." The judges were Prof. J. B. Thayer, Joseph B. Warner, Esq., and Prof. Channing...