special property
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 290 U.S. 59 - Oakes v. Lake · 1933Most cited · 26 citing opinions
receiver in possession
where the receiver has taken possession of property in pursuance of his appointment, a special property is thereby vested in him which enables him to maintain a suit for the recovery of the property in a foreign jurisdiction; and that the principle upon which that may be done is 'one of law and not of comity.
How often courts cite the case defining “special property”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “special property” — 26 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.