voluntary assignment
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 269 U.S. 483 - Bramwell v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · 1926Most cited · 460 citing opinions
R.S. § 3466 priority
Taken together, these sections mean that a debt due the United States is required first to be satisfied when the possession and control of the estate of the insolvent is given to any person charged with the duty of applying it to the payment of the debts of the insolvent, as the rights and priorities of creditors may be made to appear.
How often courts cite the case defining “voluntary assignment”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “voluntary assignment” — 460 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.