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Ejectment — fictitious lease and amendment

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Definitions from Case Law

From 11 U.S. 471 - Blackwell v. Patton & Erwin's Lessee · 1813Most cited · 6 citing opinions

In an ejectment the lease is entirely a fiction invented for the purpose of going fairly to trial on the title. Courts have exercised a full discretion in allowing it to be amended. A Plaintiff has frequently been allowed to enlarge the term when it has expired before a final decision of the cause.

How often courts cite the case defining “Ejectment — fictitious lease and amendment”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Ejectment — fictitious lease and amendment” — 6 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.