after its indebtedness
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 108 U.S. 389 - Warren v. King · 1883Most cited · 173 citing opinions
next after the indebtedness then existing or then authorized; that the preferred stock was issued to the holders of preferred certificates, owners of the property, as a quasi purchase-money mortgage on its sale; and that they intended to preserve their position except as to the new $6,000,000 mortgage, because they authorized that and did not authorize any other.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “after its indebtedness” — 173 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.