bad faith purchaser
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 73 U.S. 299 - Clements v. Moore · 1867Most cited · 88 citing opinions
A sale may be void for bad faith though the buyer pays the full value of the property bought. This is the consequence, where his purpose is to aid the seller in perpetrating a fraud upon his creditors, and where he buys recklessly, with guilty knowledge.
How often courts cite the case defining “bad faith purchaser”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “bad faith purchaser” — 88 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.