record
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 70 U.S. 434 - Peralta v. United States · 1865Most cited · 26 citing opinions
Mexican land grant
The record was the grant, and without it the title was not divested.
How often courts cite the cases defining “record”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “record” — 35 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1839–1865
- ORIGINAL
In cases at common law, the course of this Court has been uniform, not to consider any paper as a part of the record which is not made so by the pleadings, or by some opinion of the Court referring to it. This rule is common to all Courts exercising appellate jurisdiction, according to the course of the common law. The appellate Court cannot know what evidence was given to the jury, unless it is spread on the record, in a proper legal manner. The unauthorized certificate of the clerk, that any document was read, or any evidence given to the jury, cannot make that document or that evidence a part of the record, so as to bring it to the cognizance of this Court.
what is part of, on appeal