judgment in rem
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 357 U.S. 235 - Hanson v. Denckla · 1958Most cited · 14,236 citing opinions
A judgment in rem affects the interests of all persons in designated property.
How often courts cite the cases defining “judgment in rem”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “judgment in rem” — 14,615 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 · 1929–1958
- ORIGINAL
A judgment in rem binds all the world, but the facts on which it necessarily proceeds are not established against all the world