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Land location

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 14 U.S. 130 - Matson v. Hord · 1816Most cited · 7 citing opinions

general description and locative call

A location usually consists of some general description which designates the place in which the particular object is to be found, and of a description of the particular object itself. The general description must be such as would enable a man intending to locate the adjacent residuum, by making those inquiries which would be in his power, and which he would naturally make, to know the place in which he was to search for the particular or locative call, so nearly, that, by a reasonable search, he might find the object mentioned in that particular or locative call, and avoid the land located.

How often courts cite the case defining “Land location”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Land location” — 7 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.