concealment
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 26 U.S. 170 - James McLanahan Wilhelmus Bogart and John Joseph Coiron v. The Universal Insurance Company · 1828Most cited · 209 citing opinions
materiality is for the jury
It is admitted, that a concealment, to be fatal to the insurance, must be of facts material to the risk; and, certainly, of this doctrine, there cannot at this time be any legal doubt. It is further admitted, (and so is the unequivocal language of the authorities,) that generally, the materiality of the concealment is a question of fact for the jury.
How often courts cite the cases defining “concealment”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “concealment” — 220 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1827–1828
- ORIGINAL
The term concealed used in this section, is one of plain interpretation, and obviously applies to articles intended to be secreted and withdrawn from public view on account of their being so subject to duties, or from some fraudulent motive.
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