alien purchase
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 11 U.S. 603 - Fairfax's Devisee v. Hunter's Lessee · 1813Most cited · 103 citing opinions
capacity to take, not to hold
the alien has the capacity to take, but not to hold lands, and they may be seized into the hands of the sovereign
How often courts cite the case defining “alien purchase”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “alien purchase” — 103 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.