voluntary bond
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 202 U.S. 302 - United States v. Emil Dieckerhoff · 1906Most cited · 85 citing opinions
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although not strictly in conformity with the statute, if it does not run counter to the statute, and is neither malum prohibitum nor malum in se, it is a valid bond, although not in terms directly required by the statute.
How often courts cite the cases defining “voluntary bond”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “voluntary bond” — 94 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 · 1831–1906
- ORIGINAL
Even if this bond did not strictly conform to the act of congress prescribing the form... a bond voluntarily given to the United States, and not prescribed by any statute, would still be valid... an account, settled at the treasury department, in regular course is admissible as evidence of facts of which the officers must have official knowledge.
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