voidable
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 80 U.S. 517 - Railroad Company v. Soutter et al. · 1871Most cited · 92 citing opinions
Their purchase was declared void only as against the creditors of the La Crosse and Milwaukee Railroad Company. In other words, it was only voidable, not absolutely void. By satisfying these creditors they could have kept the property, and their title would have been good, as against all the world.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “voidable” — 92 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.