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definitively valid

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Definitions from Case Law

From 77 U.S. 224 - Hornsby v. United States · 1869Most cited · 40 citing opinions

With such approval the grant became, as it was termed in the regulations, 'definitively valid,' that is, it ceased to be defeasible, and the estate was no longer liable to be divested, except by proceedings for breach of its other conditions.

How often courts cite the case defining “definitively valid”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “definitively valid” — 39 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.