natural objects
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 62 U.S. 305 - Jacob Brown Jacob Nisswaner Fontaine Beckham John Unseld and George Moler v. Benjamin Huger · 1858Most cited · 76 citing opinions
survey boundary
In ascertaining the boundaries of surveys or patents, the universal rule is this: that wherever natural or permanent objects are embraced in the calls of either, these have absolute control, and both course and distance must yield to their influence.
How often courts cite the case defining “natural objects”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “natural objects” — 76 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.