heirs
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 147 U.S. 209 - De La Vergne Refrigerating Machine Co. v. Featherstone · 1893Most cited · 33 citing opinions
? Is it descriptive of a class of persons to whom in the alternative the right shall go, or is .it a'word which defines the nature of the estate which the grantee shall take? Is it a .word of "purchase" or a word in "limitation (i.e., definition) of the estate?" If the first position be the correct one, then the patent might be, were it not for the statutes above considered, valid; if the second, then it is void because the word adds no new class to take
How often courts cite the case defining “heirs”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “heirs” — 75 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.