meander-lines
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 74 U.S. 272 - Railroad Company v. Schurmeir · 1868Most cited · 388 citing opinions
Meander-lines are run in surveying fractional portions of the public lands bordering upon navigable rivers, not as boundaries of the tract, but for the purpose of defining the sinuosities of the banks of the stream, and as the means of ascertaining the quantity of the land in the fraction subject to sale, and which is to be paid for by the purchaser.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “meander-lines” — 388 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.