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bearer note

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 27 U.S. 318 - President of the Bank of Kentucky v. Wister · 1829Most cited · 73 citing opinions

suit by holder

This Court has uniformly held that a note payable to bearer is payable to any body, and not affected by the disabilities of the nominal payee.

How often courts cite the case defining “bearer note”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “bearer note” — 73 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.