Negotiability
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 1 U.S. 194 - Gerard v. La Coste · 1789Most cited · 7 citing opinions
of bills and notes
To make Bills, or Notes, assignable, the power to assign them must appear in the instruments themselves; and then, the custom of merchants, in the case of Bills of Exchange, and the Act of Parliament, in the case of Notes, operating upon the Contract of the Parties, will make them assignable.
How often courts cite the case defining “Negotiability”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Negotiability” — 7 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.