Void personal judgment
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 243 U.S. 90 - Henry McDonald v. F a Mabee · 1917Most cited · 628 citing opinions
Whatever may be the rule with regard to decrees concerning status or its incidents, an ordinary personal judgment for money, invalid for want of service amounting to due process of law, is as ineffective in the state as it is outside of it.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Void personal judgment” — 628 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.