Timber Deeds—A Case for the Restatement of the Law of Property

Presumably, to a lumberman, a manufacturer, a wage earner or an investor a stand of trees is just a given number of trees of various types, or, perhaps better, a given quantity in board feet of merchantable lumber, which can be profitably converted into money as and when proximity to market and market price permit. More broadly, to a conservationist, trees in various stages of growth are national assets capable of continuous reproduction and the source of a constant as well as an immediate supply of material for structural and other uses. These differences in approach aside, and leaving out of account the relation of forests to water supply and the value of trees in preventing soil erosion, it is obvious that timber is a consumable commodity. Yet, in contrast with coal, iron, oil and other mineral content of the soil, trees are a product and not a part of the soil; they occupy space, but their removal does not leave an emptiness for which no particular use has been discovered as is the case in mining operations; rather, when the timber is cut, the removal releases the soil for a further growth of timber, or for agriculture, or for building

A General Review of the Work of the 1939 Washington Legislature

Probably a careful attempt to evaluate legislative activity should take into consideration the opportunities for enacting bad laws which were avoided and the opportunities for enacting good laws which were passed by. A comparative analysis of what the legislature has refused to do as well as what it has done might better reflect the operation of political democracy at work than a bare survey of the end products , so to speak, as reflected in the paper and ink additions to the body of existing law. In the instance of the twenty-sixth session of the Washington Legislature, the latter consist of only two hundred and twenty-five new statutes, the governor having relieved the people of six, out of a total of around one thousand and seventy-five bills introduced into both houses. Considering a limited session of sixty days, the product numerically may fairly be taken as representing much labor in sifting and trading, if not in debate or scientific examination of all the proposals. A mere glance at the figures serves to emphasize the suggestion commonly made that government by legislation is carried on in camera, at least in committee, rather than in open session on the floor of the houses and by open debate

Papers Presented at Legal Institute

One hundred and fifty attorneys attended the Legal Institute held at the University of Washington Law School May 23, 1941, under the joint auspices of the Washington State Bar Association, Seattle Bar Association, Tacoma Bar Association and the Law School. Limited space permits the publication here of only two of the papers in full: Life Insurance as Community Property (Luccock) and Powers and Duties of Executors and Administrators c.t.a. Under Non-Intervention Wills (Foster). The balance of the papers are set forth in digested form

Washington Legislation—1941 (Continued)

The survey of selected important enactments of the Twenty-Seventh Legislature of the State of Washington, first installment of which appeared in the April issue of the REVww, is continued and concluded in this issue

Em torno da mesa do rei: artefatos, convivialidade e celebração no Rio de Janeiro joanino

Este artigo aborda um aspecto relevante do ritual das refeições na corte de D. João VI, no Rio de Janeiro: a prataria de mesa. Isto é, objetos de luxo destinados a servir e a consumir os alimentos. Com base em um inventário de bens de mesa enviados do Rio de Janeiro para Lisboa junto com o monarca em seu retorno a Portugal, em 1821, este artigo procura refletir sobre as funções e possíveis usos desses objetos, assim como sobre a importância desse universo material para o funcionamento, representação e celebração da Casa Real portuguesa na sua nova sede. O artigo argumenta que a presença e o uso de baixelas de prata de serviço, mas também de grande aparato, nas refeições públicas da família real pode contribuir para se repensar a imagem de uma corte pobre e sem brilho recorrentemente reforçada na historiografia do período joanino.This article discusses a specific issue of the royal dinner's rituals at the Court of Rio de Janeiro: the silver service: some luxury artifacts of different forms specially made to serve and consume food. Based on a inventory of these silver objects and also on a stock of table linen which were shipped to Lisbon, along with the royal family in 1821, The article intend to explore the functions and utilities of those objects at the table, as well as, analyze the importance of this material universe for the functioning, representation and celebration of the Portuguese Royal House in its new headquarters.The article argues that the use and even the exhibition of the banquet silver in public ceremonies may contribute to change a rather depreciative image of poverty the royal court in Brazil, which has being explored by the historiography for more than a hundred years