cession
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 25 U.S. 530 - Henderson v. Poindexter's Lessee · 1827Most cited · 23 citing opinions
presumed not to include territory wrongfully held
Great Britain could not, without a breach of faith, cede to Spain what she had acknowledged to be the territory of the United States. No general words ought to be so construed. We think that Spain ought to have understood the cession, and must have understood it, as being made only to the extent that Britain might rightfully make.
How often courts cite the case defining “cession”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “cession” — 23 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.