concession
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 270 U.S. 512 - United States v. P. Koenig Coal Co. · 1926Most cited · 93 citing opinions
Elkins Act
The words 'advantage,' 'concession,' and 'discrimination' in the statute must be construed to mean unlawful concession, unlawful advantage, unlawful discrimination.
How the Supreme Court has restated “concession”
Each Supreme Court definition of “concession,” sized by how often later courts cited it. “Change” is measured by wording overlap with earlier definitions — a rough signal, not a semantic judgment.
How often courts cite the cases defining “concession”
Court decisions citing the 3 opinions that defined “concession” — 130 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 3 definitions, chronological · 1827–1926
- ORIGINAL
The concession referred to in the bill of exception is, upon its face, not a grant, nor a survey, but it is, as is expressed in the bill of exceptions, only a warrant, or order, authorizing the deputy surveyor to make a survey, and to report the survey when made to the intendant, in order to found a grant upon it... It would be regarded, at most, as an incipient, inchoate right, but not a perfect legal estate. It would not be such title as would maintain an action of ejectment.
Spanish land law
The concession or grant (for the terms are synonymous, in regard to the Spanish titles of Florida) to Juan Forbes, was for 10,000 acres in the district or bank of the river Nassau, with an order, that the concession should serve him as a title in form.
Spanish Florida title