equity of redemption
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 68 U.S. 53 - Hutchins v. King · 1863Most cited · 45 citing opinions
the equity of redemption is the real and beneficial estate in the land, and may be sold and conveyed in any of the ordinary modes of transfer, subject only to the lien of the mortgage
How often courts cite the cases defining “equity of redemption”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “equity of redemption” — 63 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 · 1863–1869
being a mortgage, whether of real or personal property, the mortgagor has an equity of redemption, unless it has been extinguished in some legal way