cloud on title
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 67 U.S. 430 - Ward v. Chamberlain · 1862Most cited · 48 citing opinions
Equity will not allow a title to real estate, otherwise clear, to be clouded by a claim which cannot be enforced either at law or in equity, and consequently will interfere in behalf of the holder of the legal title to remove a cloud on the same, or an impediment or difficulty in the way of an effectual assertion of his rights in a Court of law.
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