fraud upon the law
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 33 U.S. 44 - Samuel Lee v. Elizabeth Lee · 1834Most cited · 13 citing opinions
it is laid down as a general rule, that whatever is done in fraud of a law, is done in violation of it. That if a vessel, with an original intention to go to a foreign port, complied with the requisition necessary to obtain a clearance on a voyage coastwise; this is but the device, by which she eludes the force that would otherwise have prevented her departure from the port.
How often courts cite the case defining “fraud upon the law”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “fraud upon the law” — 13 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.