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exception in a grant

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Definitions from Case Law

From 31 U.S. 302 - James Greenleaf's Lessee v. James Birth · 1832Most cited · 42 citing opinions

whatever is within the exception, is excluded from the grant; according to the maxim laid down in Co. Litt. 47 a, si quis rem dat et partem retinet, illa pars quam retinet semper cum eo est, et semper fuit.

How often courts cite the case defining “exception in a grant”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “exception in a grant” — 42 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.