incomplete title
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 75 U.S. 650 - Maguire v. Tyler · 1869Most cited · 34 citing opinions
Where the documentary evidences of title produced by the claimant contain no sufficient lines or boundaries to show that any definite and distinct parcel of land was severed from the public domain, the universal rule as settled by repeated decisions of this court is that the concession in such a case creates no right of private property in any particular tract of land which can be maintained in a court of justice without an antecedent survey and location.
How often courts cite the case defining “incomplete title”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “incomplete title” — 34 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.