captured property
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 76 U.S. 531 - United States v. Padelford · 1869Most cited · 107 citing opinions
Captured property [is] property 'which had been seized or taken from hostile possession by the military and naval forces of the United States.' Rights of possession in private property are not disturbed by the capture of a district of country, or of a city or town, until the captor signifies by some declaration or act, and, generally, by actual seizure, his determination to regard a particular description of property as not entitled to the immunity usually conceded in conformity with the humane maxims of public law.
How often courts cite the case defining “captured property”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “captured property” — 101 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.