middle name
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 28 U.S. 1 - Keene v. Meade · 1830Most cited · 41 citing opinions
law knows only one Christian name
It is said the law knows only of one christian name. And there are adjudged cases strongly countenancing, if not fully establishing, that the entire omission of a middle letter is not a misnomer or variance; and if so, the middle letter is immaterial, and a wrong letter may be stricken out or disregarded.
How often courts cite the case defining “middle name”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “middle name” — 41 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.