forfeiture bond
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 271 U.S. 332 - United States v. Zerbey · 1926Most cited · 91 citing opinions
a bond executed to the Government in a specified penal sum prescribed by statute and intended as a fixed penalty imposed for a breach of a statutory duty, which is forfeited in its full amount by a breach of the condition irrespective of the actual damage thereby caused the Government
How often courts cite the case defining “forfeiture bond”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “forfeiture bond” — 91 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.