part payment
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 80 U.S. 254 - United States v. Wilder · 1871Most cited · 50 citing opinions
statute of limitations
The principle on which part payment takes a case out of the statute is, that the party paying intended by it to acknowledge and admit the greater debt to be due.
How often courts cite the case defining “part payment”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “part payment” — 50 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.