commercial securities
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 67 U.S. 722 - Moran et al. v. The Commissioners of Miami County · 1862Most cited · 55 citing opinions
the bonds in this case, with interest warrants annexed, are commercial securities, though they are not in the accustomed forms of promissory notes or bills of exchange; that the parties intended them to be passed from hand to hand to raise money upon them, so that a full title was intended to be conferred on any person who became the legal holder of them
How often courts cite the case defining “commercial securities”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “commercial securities” — 55 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.