final settlement
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 240 U.S. 214 - Illinois Surety Company v. United States J a Peeler · 1916Most cited · 329 citing opinions
administrative
The word 'settlement' in connection with public contracts and accounts, which are the subject of prescribed scrutiny for the purpose of ascertaining the rights and obligations of the United States, has a well-defined meaning as denoting the appropriate administrative determination with respect to the amount due. The time of the final administrative determination of the amount due is a definite time, fixed by public record and readily ascertained. As an administrative matter, it does not depend upon the consent or agreement of the other party to the contract or account.
How often courts cite the cases defining “final settlement”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “final settlement” — 400 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 · 1916–1934
the term 'final settlement' in the Heard Act was not intended to denote payment, but had been used to describe an administrative determination of the amount due upon completion of the contract