equitable title
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 83 U.S. 603 - Railway Company v. Prescott · 1872Most cited · 122 citing opinions
pre-patent public lands
lands sold by the United States may be taxed before they have parted with the legal title by issuing a patent … as applicable to cases where the right to the patent is complete, and the equitable title is fully vested in the party without anything more to be paid, or any act to be done going to the foundation of his right.
How often courts cite the case defining “equitable title”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “equitable title” — 119 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.