The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, reversing a Minnesota district court’s decision, has ruled that the retroactive application of a “revocation-upon-divorce” statute to life insurance ...

The U.S. Supreme Court, resolving a split of authority, has ruled that a Minnesota law that automatically revokes one spouse’s designation of the other spouse as the beneficiary of a life insurance ...

QUESTION: What does revocation mean in law? Is there any special procedure for altering a contract and discharging obligations? Could revocation by one of the parties be valid? If one of the parties ...

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Workspace Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. The Yale Law Journal Vol. 30, No. 1, Nov., 1920 Contracts. Options. Revocation of an ...