tortious possession
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 76 U.S. 290 - Burnett v. Caldwell · 1869Most cited · 20 citing opinions
vendee default
Upon default in payment of any instalment of the purchase-money, the possession becomes tortious, and the vendor may at once bring ejectment.
How often courts cite the case defining “tortious possession”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “tortious possession” — 20 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.