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Sufficient description

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 55 U.S. 76 - William Raymond's Lessee v. Nicholas Longworth · 1852Most cited · 15 citing opinions

tax sale

the tax-list, and the duplicate transmitted to the State Auditor, as well as the advertisement, must describe the land so that its identity may be ascertained from the description, either by the owner, who wishes to pay the taxes before it is offered for sale, or that he may redeem after a forfeiture is pronounced; or that the public may be assured what is offered for sale.

How often courts cite the case defining “Sufficient description”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Sufficient description” — 15 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.