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Special and precise location

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Definitions from Case Law

From 13 U.S. 164 - Finley v. Williams · 1815Most cited · 12 citing opinions

notoriety of object called for

In examining these questions, the Courts of Kentucky have universally and properly determined that all subordinate calls in an entry must yield to a principal call to which they may be repugnant. If a great and prominent object, immoveable and durable in itself, and of general notoriety, be called for in a location, that object must fix and locate the entry, although other minor and temporary objects, to be discovered only by a strict and successful search, might prove that the locator really intended to take other land.

How often courts cite the case defining “Special and precise location”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Special and precise location” — 11 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.