MORTGAGES - RECORDING - EFFECT OF A MORTGAGE RECORDED IN THE BOOK OF DEEDS

An interest in certain land was mortgaged by the owners to the plaintiff in October, 1933. This same interest was subjected to a lien of certain judgment creditors recovered against the owners in July, 1936. The defendant, as assignee of the claim of the judgment creditors, claimed priority over the mortgagee by reason of the fact that the mortgage was delivered to the register for the purpose of being recorded as a deed and was in fact so recorded. The judgment creditors disclaimed all notice of this prior mortgage. The statutes of New Jersey provide that mortgages should be registered in the book provided for that purpose; another section states that every mortgage for lands shall be void and of no effect against a subsequent judgment creditor . . . unless such mortgage shall . . . be recorded . . . as hereinbefore provided . . . . In an action by the plaintiff for a partition of real estate and to collect the proceeds of the foreclosure, held, a subsequent judgment creditor is not charged with constructive notice of a mortgage recorded in the deeds register and such mortgage is completely void as to him. Hadfield v. Hadfield, 128 N. J. Eq. 510, 17 A. (2d) 169 (1941)

LABOR LAW - WAGE POLICY OF THE WAR LABOR BOARD

A dispute between International Union of Aluminum Workers and the Aluminum Company of America arose over the extension of a wage differential between the latter\u27s northern and southern plants and the lack of a substantial differential between workers on the day, afternoon and night shifts. After the parties had failed to settle the dispute, the National War Labor Board took jurisdiction. Held, the north-south wage differentials should be whittled down, but not so drastically as to produce disruptive effects, and the night workers should be entitled to moderate bonuses. The board based its decision on two fundamental premises: (1) that the wage tribunal shall take into account the ability of the employer to pay wages above the minimum level of health and decency, and (2) that while it is not in the interest of the war program to take any steps which will lower unreasonably the standard of living, workers in the higher paid brackets have no right to expect that they will receive wage· increases which will follow day by day the rise in the cost of living. Labor, like other groups in the population, must make sacrifices in the interests of checking inflation. In re Aluminum Company of America, (N.W.L.B. 1942) 9 L.R.R. 684

LABOR LAW - WAR LABOR PROBLEMS AND POLICIES

God is on the side with the most artillery. Wars in the past have been fought by armies of men. The war today is being fought by armies of machines, and ultimate victory will belong to the side which can most quickly place an overwhelming force of fighting equipment on the world battlefield. For many months the United States stood as a spectator while other nations prepared their economies to amass such a force. We are now faced with the imperative need of overtaking and passing the capacity for production of war equipment that has been built or seized by the Axis nations, a need which will stretch our potential capacity to the utmost

Ontological support for managing non-functional requirements in pervasive healthcare

We designed and implemented an ontological solution which makes provisions for choosing adequate devices/sensors for remote monitoring of patients who are suffering from post-stroke health complications. We argue that non-functional requirements in pervasive healthcare systems can be elicited and managed through semantics stored in ontological models and reasoning created upon them. Our contribution is twofold: we enrich the elicitation process and specification of non-functional requirements within the requirements engineering discipline and we address the pervasiveness of healthcare software systems through the way of choosing devices embedded in them and users expectations in terms of having access to pervasive services personalized to their needs

Political transition and emergent forest-conservation issues in Myanmar.

Political and economic transitions have had substantial impacts on forest conservation. Where transitions are underway or anticipated, historical precedent and methods for systematically assessing future trends should be used to anticipate likely threats to forest conservation and design appropriate and prescient policy measures to counteract them. Myanmar is transitioning from an authoritarian, centralized state with a highly regulated economy to a more decentralized and economically liberal democracy and is working to end a long-running civil war. With these transitions in mind, we used a horizon-scanning approach to assess the 40 emerging issues most affecting Myanmar's forests, including internal conflict, land-tenure insecurity, large-scale agricultural development, demise of state timber enterprises, shortfalls in government revenue and capacity, and opening of new deforestation frontiers with new roads, mines, and hydroelectric dams. Averting these threats will require, for example, overhauling governance models, building capacity, improving infrastructure- and energy-project planning, and reforming land-tenure and environmental-protection laws. Although challenges to conservation in Myanmar are daunting, the political transition offers an opportunity for conservationists and researchers to help shape a future that enhances Myanmar's social, economic, and environmental potential while learning and applying lessons from other countries. Our approach and results are relevant to other countries undergoing similar transitions

Political transition and emergent forest-conservation issues in Myanmar.

Political and economic transitions have had substantial impacts on forest conservation. Where transitions are underway or anticipated, historical precedent and methods for systematically assessing future trends should be used to anticipate likely threats to forest conservation and design appropriate and prescient policy measures to counteract them. Myanmar is transitioning from an authoritarian, centralized state with a highly regulated economy to a more decentralized and economically liberal democracy and is working to end a long-running civil war. With these transitions in mind, we used a horizon-scanning approach to assess the 40 emerging issues most affecting Myanmar's forests, including internal conflict, land-tenure insecurity, large-scale agricultural development, demise of state timber enterprises, shortfalls in government revenue and capacity, and opening of new deforestation frontiers with new roads, mines, and hydroelectric dams. Averting these threats will require, for example, overhauling governance models, building capacity, improving infrastructure- and energy-project planning, and reforming land-tenure and environmental-protection laws. Although challenges to conservation in Myanmar are daunting, the political transition offers an opportunity for conservationists and researchers to help shape a future that enhances Myanmar's social, economic, and environmental potential while learning and applying lessons from other countries. Our approach and results are relevant to other countries undergoing similar transitions

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LABOR LAW - WAGE POLICY OF THE WAR LABOR BOARD

A dispute between International Union of Aluminum Workers and the Aluminum Company of America arose over the extension of a wage differential between the latter\u27s northern and southern plants and the lack of a substantial differential between workers on the day, afternoon and night shifts. After the parties had failed to settle the dispute, the National War Labor Board took jurisdiction. Held, the north-south wage differentials should be whittled down, but not so drastically as to produce disruptive effects, and the night workers should be entitled to moderate bonuses. The board based its decision on two fundamental premises: (1) that the wage tribunal shall take into account the ability of the employer to pay wages above the minimum level of health and decency, and (2) that while it is not in the interest of the war program to take any steps which will lower unreasonably the standard of living, workers in the higher paid brackets have no right to expect that they will receive wage· increases which will follow day by day the rise in the cost of living. Labor, like other groups in the population, must make sacrifices in the interests of checking inflation. In re Aluminum Company of America, (N.W.L.B. 1942) 9 L.R.R. 684