legislative grant
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 66 U.S. 358 - Rice v. Railroad Co. · 1861Most cited · 87 citing opinions
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Grants made by a Legislature are not warranties; and the rule universally applied in determining their effect is, that if the thing granted was not in the grantor at the time of the grant, no estate passes to the grantee.
How often courts cite the case defining “legislative grant”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “legislative grant” — 87 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.