Space-time defects :Domain walls and torsion

The theory of distributions in non-Riemannian spaces is used to obtain exact static thin domain wall solutions of Einstein-Cartan equations of gravity. Curvature $\delta$-singularities are found while Cartan torsion is given by Heaviside functions. Weitzenb\"{o}ck planar walls are caracterized by torsion $\delta$-singularities and zero curvature. It is shown that Weitzenb\"{o}ck static thin domain walls do not exist exactly as in general relativity. The global structure of Weitzenb\"{o}ck nonstatic torsion walls is investigated.Comment: J.Math.Phys.39,(1998),Jan. issu

Bosland: Estate Tax Valuation in the Sale of Merger of Small Firms

A Review of Estate Tax Valuation in the Sale of Merger of Small Firms. By Chelcie C. Bosland

Federal Right Jurisdiction and the Declaratory Remedy

Why should we have federal district courts? What should be their primary function? These questions are fundamental to the formulation of a rational basis for the distribution of judicial power between state courts and the trial courts of the federal government. Our American federal system seeks as a constant objective an appropriate division of governmental power between a national unit, which deals with problems requiring uniform treatment, and state units, which have responsibility for problems depending more upon local conditions. Applying the principle to the federal district courts, it seems clear that their primary function should be to adjudicate federal substantive rights and duties

Wills, Trusts and Estates -- 1957 Tennessee Survey

The subject matter of this article will be presented in four parts entitled Wills, Trusts, Future Interests and Fiduciary Administration. The latter will include the developments of the year concerning both the administration of decedents\u27 estates and the administration of trust estates because to an increasing extent the statutes and decisions are relevant to both kinds of fiduciary administration. Legislative developments concerning probate law are also included under each heading as well as the court decisional developments

Chilled Water System Modeling & Optimization

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)The following thesis looks into modeling a chilled water system equipped with variable speed drives on different piece of equipment and optimization of system setpoints to achieve energy savings. The research was done by collecting data from a case-study and developing a system of component models that could be linked to simulate the overall system operation

Class Gifts of Future Interests: When Is Survival Required?

Because of recent significant developments, this article will under-take to deal with the requirement of survival in class gifts of future interests both with respect to the responsibility of a lawyer who plans an estate and with the problem confronting the courts in the many cases where either holographic wills are allowed or lawyers fail to discharge their professional responsibility concerning this litigious issue. By way of introduction, it will first stress the importance of a proper training for professional responsibility in this area. It will then attempt to provide a proper perspective for the courts to deal with the unfortunate cases

Decedents\u27 Estates, Trusts and Future Interest -- 1964 Tennessee Survey

Validity of Instrument Which Only Appoints Fiduciary--Is an instrument which makes no testamentary gift, but only designates or appoints the personal representative to administer the estate and provides certain special powers of fiduciary administration entitled to probate as a valid will? While it has been said that there need be no dispositive gift of property to entitle a testamentary writing to probate as a will,\u27 there seems to have been no definite court decision in Tennessee so holding until the recent case of Delaney v. First Peoples Bank of Johnson City. In that case a writing properly executed with the formalities required for making wills was offered for probate and contested by the decedents sole heir at law and next of kin. From the writing it appears that the decedent was primarily interested in naming an experienced and dependable personal representative to take charge of his assets, pay claims, expenses and taxes, file all proper tax returns, and distribute the estate according to the laws of intestate succession

Logical or Legal Relevancy -- A Conflict in Theory

Is there a rational theory which serves as a basis for determining the admissibility of circumstantial evidence? Circumstantial evidence involves the offer in evidence of Fact A for the purpose of having the trier of fact (jury, judge, administrative agency or arbitrator) first believe that Fact A is true, and from it infer the existence or truth of Fact B. Fact B may be one of the ultimate questions of factor propositions raised by the pleadings, or it may be a more remote fact or proposition which when established, again forms the basis for a further inference in the chain of proof toward the ultimate issue. Everyone agrees that in order for Fact A to be admitted in evidence for the purpose of proving the existence of Fact B there must be a logical relation between Fact A and Fact B. Thus, logical relevancy is the basic concept underlying all discussion of the admissibility of circumstantial evidence.\u27 However, it is equally clear that in judicial trials there are many items of circumstantial evidence which are conceded to be logically relevant to a proposition before the court, but which are nevertheless excluded by the judge from the consideration of the trier of fact. Sometimes the exclusion is explained in terms of a lack of sufficient quantity of probative value--that the offered evidence is too remote. In other instances the exclusion is based upon considerations other than logical relevancy. The result is a substantial difference between logical relevancy and admissibility in the law of Evidence. How is this difference to be determined. This article is prepared in the belief that in no other phase of the law of Evidence have basic principles been relegated so far to the background. Its purpose is to set forth in a law review article a basic theory which will adequately serve as a rational approach for determining the admissibility of all circumstantial evidence; to discuss the elements involved in this theory and show the peculiar mental processes which must be undertaken by the trial judge in applying it during the course of a trial; and finally to show the application of the theory to a few of the more controversial items of circumstantial evidence in contemporary litigation