conditional fee
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 43 U.S. 43 - David Shriver Junior's Lessee v. Mary Lynn · 1844Most cited · 38 citing opinions
A gift of land to a man and his heirs generally, if he shall have heirs of his body, without any other expression to qualify the words heirs of his body, is a conditional fee.
How often courts cite the case defining “conditional fee”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “conditional fee” — 38 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.