espediente
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 68 U.S. 400 - United States v. Moreno · 1863Most cited · 13 citing opinions
The record presents every link in the chain of a perfect espediente. There is a petition with a dise no, an order of reference, an informe by the proper officer, a decree of concession, a titulo, and the approval of the Departmental Assembly.
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How often courts cite the cases defining “espediente”
Court decisions citing the 3 opinions that defined “espediente” — 33 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 3 definitions, chronological · 1861–1872
- ORIGINAL
When complete, an espediente usually consists of the petition, with the diseño annexed; a marginal decree, approving the petition; the order of reference to the proper officer, for information; the report of that officer, in conformity to the order, the decree of concession, and the copy or a duplicate of the grant. These several papers—that is, the petition, with the diseño annexed, the order of reference, the informe, the decree of concession, and the copy of the grant, appended together in the order mentioned—constitute a complete espediente, within the meaning of the Mexican law.
The set of documents which make up the original title-papers of any tract of land, from the original petition of the grantee to the final extension of title (usually called in Mexico the 'espediente'), do belong to the public archives. They either have to pass under the examination and approval of the different officials concerned in granting out the public lands as the basis of their acts, or they are the very acts themselves of those officials, constituting the preliminary and final acts of title, demonstrating for all future time the alienation of a specific portion of the public domain.