bad faith
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 69 U.S. 110 - Murray v. Lardner · 1864Most cited · 238 citing opinions
guilty knowledge and wilful ignorance alike involve the result of bad faith. They are the same in effect.
How often courts cite the cases defining “bad faith”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “bad faith” — 336 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 · 1864–1935
one may purchase stolen negotiable bonds and acquire valid title as a holder in due course, although before the purchase, notice of the theft had come to him; but he may not willfully close his eyes to the notice, or resort to trick or artifice to avoid knowledge of its contents, or purposely forget it. He must act in good faith. The test is one of simple honesty and good faith.
negotiable instruments