void lease
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 270 U.S. 456 - Smith v. McCullough · 1926Most cited · 276 citing opinions
Indian allotment — forbidden term
where an allottee undertakes to negotiate a lease for a forbidden term he enters a field in which he must be regarded as without capacity or authority to negotiate or act and that the resulting lease is void
How often courts cite the case defining “void lease”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “void lease” — 270 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.