US Rule
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 38 U.S. 359 - Benjamin Story v. Louisa Livingston · 1839Most cited · 194 citing opinions
application of payments
The correct rule in general is, that the creditor shall calculate interest whenever a payment is made. To this interest the payment is first to be applied; and if it exceed the interest due, the balance is to be applied to diminish the principal. If the payment fall short of the interest, the balance of interest is not to be added to the principal so as to produce interest.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “US Rule” — 192 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.