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”
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.