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Place of Trial in Civil Actions
Foster, Roger
Foster, Roger
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Television and the " talkies " may some day become practical and permissible means of dramatizing the testimony of distant witnesses and thus minimize many of the difficulties dealt with in this article.' Thus far " Progress " has served only to make more important the proper determination of the place of trial. The rather arbitrary rules of venue and jurisdiction taken over from the common law of England were never well adapted to our federal system. Our increasingly mobile civilization and the growing discrepancy between political and economic frontiers have rapidly multiplied the instances where dogma, developed to meet such different problems, prove utterly inapplicable.