private acts
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 29 U.S. 152 - John Beaty v. The Lessee of a Knowler · 1830Most cited · 28 citing opinions
cannot bind without consent
[The argument is] that this law... is a private act, not designed for public purposes, and consequently cannot affect the rights of any individual who did not assent to its provisions. That the provision declaring it to be a public act, does not alter the principle; for the rights derived from a private act cannot be conclusive without consent.
How often courts cite the case defining “private acts”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “private acts” — 28 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.