settlement
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 332 U.S. 625 - Callen v. Pennsylvania Railroad · 1948Most cited · 543 citing opinions
One who attacks a settlement must bear the burden of showing that the contract he has made is tainted with invalidity, either by fraud practiced upon him or by a mutual mistake under which both parties acted.
How the Supreme Court has restated “settlement”
Each Supreme Court definition of “settlement,” sized by how often later courts cited it. “Change” is measured by wording overlap with earlier definitions — a rough signal, not a semantic judgment.
How often courts cite the cases defining “settlement”
Court decisions citing the 3 opinions that defined “settlement” — 564 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 3 definitions, chronological · 1803–1948
- ORIGINAL
There must be an occupancy, accompanied with a bon a fide intention to reside and live upon the land, either in person, or by that of his tenant, to make it the place of his habitation, not at some distant day, but at the time, he is improving
land law
The term 'settlement' is used as comprehending acts done on the land by way of establishing or preparing to establish an actual personal residence-going thereon and, with reasonable diligence, arranging to occupy it as a home to the exclusion of one elsewhere.