liquidate
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 21 U.S. 338 - Fleckner v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · 1823Most cited · 155 citing opinions
a balance
Its ordinary sense, as given by lexicographers, is to clear away, to lessen debts. And in common parlance, especially among merchants, to liquidate a balance, means, to pay it.
How often courts cite the case defining “liquidate”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “liquidate” — 155 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.