William Taylor Muse- The Dean

It is hard to discuss William Taylor Muse, or The Dean as he was known to most of us, without using superlatives in what would appear to the uninitiated a super abundance. William T. Muse was many things-a devoted husband and father, an ardent Baptist, an enthusiastic and constant fan of athletics at the University of Richmond, a recognized scholar and legal author, a teacher of law for forty years, secre- tary and president of the Virginia State Bar Association, and a Sunday School teacher for most of his adult life. To most of us, he was pri- marily two things, The Dean and our friend. In these two capacities, his personality meshed. He was the Law School to most of us. That is not to say that the Law School, or our affections for it, disappeared with him. He visualized and epitomized the T. C. Williams School of Law as a vital and continuing institution. It does and will continue, as does our affection for him

A Synopsis of the Major Revisions to Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code Adopted By Virginia

When the Uniform Commercial Code became effective in Mississippi and South Carolina on January 1, 1968, it reached its goal of near uniform enactment. Maintaining this achievement of uniform adoption, however, has proven to be most difficult with regard to the Code\u27s treatment of secured transactions in Article 9. In 1966, the Permanent Editorial Board 2 noted that there had been 337 non-uniform, non-official amendments to Article 9 of the Code. Accordingly, the Board established a Review Committee to restudy Article 9 in depth and report its findings. The study culminated in the Final Report of the Permanent Editorial Board of April 25, 1971

Virginia Law of Interest and Usury

The concept of a limitation upon the charges that may be imposed for the hire of money is hardly modem. Although it may not be the oldest usury law, a reference to Deuteronomy should suffice: Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shall not lend upon usury

The Securities Acts and (Hopefully) How to Avoid Them

With the boom and bust of the twenties and thirties, there developed a new legal concept-regulation of the sale and issuances of securities. It is an unfortunate comment upon the business ethics of some Americans that such laws were felt necessary. Nevertheless, such laws apply to the honest and the dishonest, and to the sophisticated as well as the credulous