voluntary settlement
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 21 U.S. 229 - Sexton v. Wheaton · 1823Most cited · 120 citing opinions
Statute 13 Eliz.
A voluntary conveyance by a person not indebted, is clearly good against future creditors. That constitutes the distinction between the two statutes. Fraud vitiates the transaction; but a settlement not fraudulent, by a party not indebted, is valid, though voluntary.
How often courts cite the case defining “voluntary settlement”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “voluntary settlement” — 120 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.