survey
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 26 U.S. 628 - James Jackson v. John Clark · 1828Most cited · 14 citing opinions
under military warrant
The word 'survey,' as used in the law, is not satisfied by the mere circumstance that a chain has followed a compass round a particular piece of ground; but requires that it should be made in virtue of a warrant for the purpose of appropriating land, to which the holder of that warrant is entitled by law.
How often courts cite the case defining “survey”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “survey” — 14 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.