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 Inscriptions on German Court Buildings mortgage loans, it has been asserted

by the opponents and critics of the Torrens System that neither corpora tions nor individuals could be induced to loan on certiﬁcates of registration and that consequently the new system would never prove popular. But these dire forebodings have been negatived by the actual facts. Several of the largest ﬁnancial institutions of this

city have expressed a willingness to make loans on Torrens certiﬁcates without requiring a policy of title insurance, as formerly, and already several such loans have been negotiated. It needs no argument to show that a

title vested by the State is inﬁnitely stronger and better than a policy of title insurance insuring a so-called "good and marketable" title, with a number of strings attached thereto.

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The progress already made is ex tremely satisfactory and every consci

entious lawyer, who is striving to advance the interests of his client, and not (to quote a classic expression) “working

for his own pocket all the time,” should recommend

and

urge

the

registra

tion of land titles under the Torrens System and by his support give aid and encouragement to those who have labored so long and so earnestly to bring about this most beneﬁcent

reform.‘ a0n the 3d day of January, 1911, the United States Supreme Court at Washington. D. C., handed down a unanimous decision (the opinion being written by Chief Justice White) in the case of American Land Co. v. Louis Zm'ss, wherein they upheld the validity of the Torrens Land Title Reg iatration Law as to its constitutionality, and in particular declared that the operation thereof did not tend to deprive any person of his property without due process of law.

Inscriptions on German Court Buildings BY Rov TEMPLE House1

T WOULD seem as if proverbs would be nowhere more appropriate than where legal decisions are rendered.

We

remember that all law was once couched in the form of crisp sayings. In the old days when every citizen still took part directly in the making and applying of laws and there were no separate

expression.

They frequently

took a

humorous turn, and some of them are

quaintly charming. In a sort of resurrection of this pleasant long-forgotten practice it is becoming more and more the custom in Germany of late to adorn the courts

legislative and judicial functionaries, every legal principle was couched in

of justice with sententious inscriptions and so to brighten the gloomy realm of Themis with the light of poesy. Thus

some striking and easily-retained aphor

we read in wonderful ﬂourishes, below

ism which was carried from mouth to mouth and thus from generation to generation. The legal principles of those days were so simple and so limited in their application that these naive sen

the sun dial on the facade of Provincial Tribunal I in Berlin, the inscription: Snail sol! when, Zeit wird vergehen, Rah! muss bestehen.

tences were perfectly adequate to their ' Prussian-American Exchange Instructor in Eng liah.

many.

Guericke-Oberrealschule. Magdeburg.

Ger

Let quarrels pass away As pass the night and day; Let justice ever stay.