Judgment-creditor's lien
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 15 U.S. 396 - Thelusson v. Smith · 1817Most cited · 121 citing opinions
priority over US insolvency preference
A judgment gives to the judgment creditor a lien on the debtor's lands, and a preference over all subsequent judgment creditors. But the act of congress defeats this preference in favour of the United States, in the cases specified in the 65th section of the act of 1799.
How often courts cite the case defining “Judgment-creditor's lien”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Judgment-creditor's lien” — 121 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.