cloud upon title
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 277 U.S. 274 - Willing v. Chicago Auditorium Ass'n · 1928Most cited · 298 citing opinions
The alleged doubt as to plaintiff's right under the leases arises on the face of the instruments by which the plaintiff derives title. Because of that fact, the doubt is not in legal contemplation a cloud, and the bill to remove it as such does not lie.
How often courts cite the cases defining “cloud upon title”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “cloud upon title” — 418 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 · 1872–1928
- ORIGINAL
there exists no cloud upon the title which justifies the interference of a court of equity, where the proceedings are void upon their face, that is, the same record which must be introduced to establish the title claimed, will show that there is no title