Restraint upon alienation
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 220 U.S. 373 - Dr. Miles Medical Co. v. John D. Park & Sons Co. · 1911Most cited · 1,362 citing opinions
a general restraint upon alienation is ordinarily invalid. 'The right of alienation is one of the essential incidents of a right of general property in movables, and restraints upon alienation have been generally regarded as obnoxious to public policy, which is best subserved by great freedom of traffic in such things as pass from hand to hand.
How often courts cite the case defining “Restraint upon alienation”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Restraint upon alienation” — 1,359 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.