ADDRESSES DELIVERED AND PAPERS READ YEAR. PRESIDENTS' ADDRESSES NAME. SUBJECT. 1879-1913. In accordance with a provision of the Constitution (amended in 1913), the President's address each year communicated "the most noteworthy changes in Statute Law on points of general interest made in the several states and by Congress during the preceding year." 1914. WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT....... Some Needed Federal Legislation -Construction of the Clayton 1879. EDWARD J. PHELPS.. SUBJECT. ... Shifting Uses, from the Stand- The Inviolability of Telegrams. John Marshall. Sunday Laws. ...Rights of Material Men and Employees of Railroad Companies as against Mortgagees. *In place of President William A. Blount, deceased. 1882. ALEXANDER R. LAWTON....... James Lewis Petigru and Hugh 1883. ROBERT G. STREET. 1883. JOHN M. SHIRLEY.. 1883. SIMEON E. BALDWIN.. Swinton Legaré. ... How far Questions of Public Policy May Enter into Judicial Decisions. The Future of our Profession. Preliminary Examinations in 1883. SEYMOUR D. THOMPSON....... Abuses of the Writ of Habeas SUBJECT. The Civil Law and Codification. Law Reports and Law Reporting. . Indemnity the Essence of Insurance; Causes and Consequences of Legislation Qualifying this Principle. The Granger Cases and the Police . General Corporation Laws. ...Congressional Power over InterState Commerce. Jurisprudence Considered as a . Judicial Independence. .The Federal Judicial System. ernment. The Necessity for Uniformity in The Ideal and the Actual in the Land Transfer Reform. Liberty of Contract under the ... British Institutions and American Constitutions. The Treaty-Making Power. The Distribution of Property. . Great Dissenting Opinions. Injunction and Organized Labor. |