The Secured Transactions Article of the Commercial Code

Antalet personer som skadas bland golvläggare är ca 1.5 % per år och de skador som uppkommer är hand och knäskador. Det är inte den grupp inom byggindustrin som har störst skadefrekvens men endast en låg andel klarar av att arbeta ända till pensionen.  Detta examensarbete har haft till syfte att ge en objektiv bild av arbetsmiljön för golvläggare, och ta fram brister och förslag på förbättringar. Det har gjorts efter önskemål från Golvbranschen Öst och Lars Johnsson som under lång tid sett problem i branschen.  Jag har gjort intervjuer med golvläggare och leverantörer (se sidan 34) och observationer på arbetsplatser, tagit fram statistiskt underlag från arbetsmiljöverket över skador och gjort litteraturstudier på forskning inom området. Jag kom fram till att arbetsskador framför allt orsakas av dåligt anpassad skyddsutrustning och även golvmaterial levererade i för stora förpackningar. Golv levereras i längder som är svåra att hantera manuellt och väger ofta hundratals kilo. Därför blir hjälpmedel som bygghissar mycket viktigt för att förebygga arbetsskador, trots att dessa ofta plockas bort i förtid. Det finns mycket som kan förbättras på området, bland annat bättre anpassad utrustning och golv/mattbeläggning som levereras i mindre storlekar och vikter.Yearly injuries among flooring contractors caused from work are 1.5 %. And the most common body part to be injured is hand and knee. This group is not the most injured in the building industry but a very low percent manage to work until retirement. The purpose of this essay has been to give a view of the working environment in this industry, with deficiencies and improvement possibilities. The method has been interviews and observation studies at construction places, processing of statistics from Swedish work environment authority and literature studies of research in the area. The findings made was that injuries mostly are caused by badly adapted safety equipment and extremely heavy building material with very high weight. Limitations in working environment when building elevators is taken away too early also causes problems. Work is often done with piecework pay and this induce higher speed and increase risk of injuries. Today many areas can be improved, for example safety equipment and size/weight of building material

Chattel Security: II

The trust receipt or something very like it first appeared in our reportsin a case decided before 1850 and another of the earliest casesinvolved a grain shipment on the Great Lakes. Nevertheless the devicedid not come into prominence until the end of the century andwas then used exclusively in transactions originating in overseas shipmentsto this country. Its invention and development furnishes in ourlegal history a unique example of response to a rapidly changing industrialpattern

The International Court of Justice

The International Court of Justice, the principal judicial organ ofthe United Nations, has replaced the League of Nations\u27 PermanentCourt of International Justice with little change in the Court\u27s constitution,in its relationship to the parent international organization,in the extent of its jurisdiction, or in the procedure prescribed underits Statute. The new Court has a new name, a technically new Statute,some new judges and, perhaps most important of all, some new members.In matters of substance, however, the new Court is a continuationof the old. It need not be expected, nor has it intended, to addanything new to the structure of international order

For Wesley Sturges: On the Teaching and Study of Law

During the academic year 1941-1942, toward the end of the fall term, severalsecond and third year students, of whom I was one, conceived the odd ideathat our legal education would not be complete without a course in the commonlaw forms of action. This antiquarian project afforded us, no doubt, a pleasantdistraction from the great and terrible events which threatened to overwhelmus. But the official schedule of courses and seminars was of no help to us. Then,as now, the common law forms of action did not make the grade in the forward-looking Yale curriculum

Book Review: The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860

According to the jacket-blurb which accompanies the book: Thissearching interpretation, which connects law and the courts to thereal world, will engage historians in a new debate. For to view the lawas an engine of vast economic transformation is to challenge in astunning way previous interpretations of the eras of revolution andreform. I do not mean to suggest that law book writers are to be heldresponsible for the indiscretions of law book publishers. But the essentialsof the argument-Professor Horwitz would, I am sure, agree arenot all that novel; they have been current for 30 or 40 years

The Purchase Money Priority

For many years it has been recognized that a present security interestmay be established in property to be acquired by the debtor in thefuture. When the subsequent acquisition is in turn financed by apurchase money transaction the question arises whether the lien ofthe original mortgagee or that of the purchase money creditor haspriority. Professor Gilmore traces the historical priority given thepurchase money interest, the areas in which the priority has beenqualified, and the embodiment of the priority in the Uniform ConditionalSales Act. He then describes some of the solutions andraises some of the problems presented by Article 9 of the UniformCommercial Code, discussing the Code\u27s treatment of the purchasemoney interest in inventory, collateral other than inventory,and fixtures. He concludes by urging that defects in the Code berepaired in a uniform and careful manner rather than ignored ordenied through fear that such repair would hinder general adoptionof the Code