collateral security
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 73 U.S. 748 - Railroad Companies v. Chamberlain · 1867Most cited · 48 citing opinions
The lease was in the nature of a mortgage, and held only as collateral security, and followed the judgment
How often courts cite the case defining “collateral security”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “collateral security” — 47 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.