void process
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 71 U.S. 237 - Mitchell v. St. Maxent's Lessee · 1866Most cited · 42 citing opinions
Void process confers no right on the officer to sell, and all acts done under it are absolute nullities.
How often courts cite the cases defining “void process”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “void process” — 62 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1866–1867
all process issuing from a court, which by law authenticates such process with its seal, is void if issued without a seal
want of seal