Inscriptions on German Court Buildings mortgage loans, it has been asserted
by the opponents and critics of the Torrens System that neither corpora tions nor individuals could be induced to loan on certificates of registration and that consequently the new system would never prove popular. But these dire forebodings have been negatived by the actual facts. Several of the largest financial institutions of this
city have expressed a willingness to make loans on Torrens certificates without requiring a policy of title insurance, as formerly, and already several such loans have been negotiated. It needs no argument to show that a
title vested by the State is infinitely stronger and better than a policy of title insurance insuring a so-called "good and marketable" title, with a number of strings attached thereto.
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The progress already made is ex tremely satisfactory and every consci
entious lawyer, who is striving to advance the interests of his client, and not (to quote a classic expression) “working
for his own pocket all the time,” should recommend
and
urge
the
registra
tion of land titles under the Torrens System and by his support give aid and encouragement to those who have labored so long and so earnestly to bring about this most beneficent
reform.‘ a0n the 3d day of January, 1911, the United States Supreme Court at Washington. D. C., handed down a unanimous decision (the opinion being written by Chief Justice White) in the case of American Land Co. v. Louis Zm'ss, wherein they upheld the validity of the Torrens Land Title Reg iatration Law as to its constitutionality, and in particular declared that the operation thereof did not tend to deprive any person of his property without due process of law.
Inscriptions on German Court Buildings BY Rov TEMPLE House1
T WOULD seem as if proverbs would be nowhere more appropriate than where legal decisions are rendered.
We
remember that all law was once couched in the form of crisp sayings. In the old days when every citizen still took part directly in the making and applying of laws and there were no separate
expression.
They frequently
took a
humorous turn, and some of them are
quaintly charming. In a sort of resurrection of this pleasant long-forgotten practice it is becoming more and more the custom in Germany of late to adorn the courts
legislative and judicial functionaries, every legal principle was couched in
of justice with sententious inscriptions and so to brighten the gloomy realm of Themis with the light of poesy. Thus
some striking and easily-retained aphor
we read in wonderful flourishes, below
ism which was carried from mouth to mouth and thus from generation to generation. The legal principles of those days were so simple and so limited in their application that these naive sen
the sun dial on the facade of Provincial Tribunal I in Berlin, the inscription: Snail sol! when, Zeit wird vergehen, Rah! muss bestehen.
tences were perfectly adequate to their ' Prussian-American Exchange Instructor in Eng liah.
many.
Guericke-Oberrealschule. Magdeburg.
Ger
Let quarrels pass away As pass the night and day; Let justice ever stay.
