actual residence
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 65 U.S. 179 - Richard Gregg and Charles Ballance v. Robert Forsyth · 1860Most cited · 19 citing opinions
statute of limitations
the residence and possession of land for seven years by a tenant inures to the benefit of the landlord, so as to secure for him the protection of the act; and that this protection is not confined to the particular close upon which the claimant resides, but also extends to the entire parcel of land of which the legal possession has been maintained as a consequence of his actual possession and residence
How often courts cite the cases defining “actual residence”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “actual residence” — 36 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 · 1860–1862
it is not necessary, under the Illinois statute, in order to secure the benefit of the limitation of seven years, that the claimant should have an actual residence on each lot of the subdivision in the sense in which those terms are ordinarily understood, but it is sufficient if he shows an actual residence for the entire period on some one of the lots claiming the whole under the same title, and that the lot in controversy was and is in the possession of his tenant under his title, and pursuant to his claim.