fixed liability
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 267 U.S. 467 - Lewis v. Roberts · 1925Most cited · 70 citing opinions
provable debt in bankruptcy
It includes a 'fixed liability' evidenced by a judgment ex delicto as well as by a judgment ex contractu, and makes the one as well as the other a provable 'debt.' There is nothing in the language or in the context which suggests its limitation to judgments founded on debts or warrants the reading in of such a limitation.
How often courts cite the case defining “fixed liability”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “fixed liability” — 70 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.