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

Decedents\u27 Estates, Trusts and Future Interests

The subject matter will be discussed under three headings: Dece- dents\u27 Estates, Trusts, and Future Interests. The section on Decedents\u27 Estates will include developments concerning intestate succession, wills and those problems of fiduciary administration involved in the settlement of decedents\u27 estates; the fiduciary administration problems involving trusts will also be discussed in that section. The developments of the year include court decisions, new legislation, and the work of the Section on Real Property, Probate and Trust Law of the Tennessee Bar Association on proposed legislation