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

cellor of Great Britain..... Higher Nationality. A Study in

SUBJECT.

. Shifting Uses, from the Stand-
point of the Nineteenth Cen-
tury.

.The Inviolability of Telegrams.
The Relationship of Law and
National Spirit.

.... Sunday Laws.

. Rights of Material Men and Em-
ployees of Railroad Companies
as against Mortgagees.
Extradition between the States.
.The Recording Laws of the
United States.

The Advantages of a National
Bankrupt Law.

The Doctrine of Punitive Dam-
ages and Its Effect on the
Ethics of the Profession.
Titles of Statutes.

The Civil Law as Transplanted
in Louisiana.

How far Questions of Public Pol-
icy May Enter into Judicial
Decisions.

The Future of our Profession.
Preliminary Examinations

Criminal Proceedings.

in

Abuses of the Writ of Habeas
Corpus.

The Rise and Probable Decline
of Private Corporations in
America.

Stock Dividends and Their Re-
straint.

The Prevention of Defective and
Slipshod Legislation.

Partition of Powers between the
Federal and State Govern-
ments.

The Distinction between Legislative and Judicial Functions.

1895. RICHARD WAYNE PARKER.... The Tyrannies of Free Govern