inducement
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 76 U.S. 477 - City v. Lamson · 1869Most cited · 61 citing opinions
The recital is by way of inducement, as is familiar to special pleaders at common law, which Mr. Chitty says is in the nature of a preamble, stating the circumstances under which the contract was made, or to which the consideration has reference. The office of an inducement is explanatory, and does not, in general, require exact certainty.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “inducement” — 61 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.