Settlement right
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 36 U.S. 1 - Lessee of Joseph Marlett v. John Silk · 1837Most cited · 8 citing opinions
Pennsylvania title
a right founded on a prior actual settlement which has not been abandoned, is just as valid in law as a right vested by a prior warrant or patent. 'Title by settlement and improvement, is now as well established as any species of title in Pennsylvania; and very often has been preferred to warrant, survey and patent.
How often courts cite the case defining “Settlement right”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Settlement right” — 8 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1837–1837
It is not even necessary to the validity of a settlement right, so long as the settler remains in actual possession, that his boundaries be defined by an official survey; and if encroached upon, or expelled from his possession, he may recover in ejectment.
validity without survey