Mortgagee
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 232 U.S. 637 - Holt v. Henley · 1914Most cited · 197 citing opinions
takes as mortgagor had
We believe the better rule in a case like this, and the one consistent with the Virginia decisions so far as they have gone, is that 'the mortgagees take just such an interest in the property as the mortgagor acquired; no more, no less.
How often courts cite the case defining “Mortgagee”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Mortgagee” — 195 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.