Restraint on alienation
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 233 U.S. 528 - Bowling & Miami Investment Co. v. United States · 1914Most cited · 67 citing opinions
Indian allotment as running with land
It bound the land for the time stated, whether in the hands of the allottee or of his heirs. ... it is no longer open to question that the United States has capacity to sue for the purpose of setting aside conveyances of lands allotted to Indians under its care, where restrictions upon alienation have been transgressed. ... the authority to enforce restrictions of this character is the necessary complement of the power to impose them.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Restraint on alienation” — 184 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.