homestead right
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 81 U.S. 463 - Black v. Curran · 1871Most cited · 7 citing opinions
It cannot in an absolute sense be said to be an estate in the land; the law creates none and leaves the fee as it was before, but in substance declares that the right of occupancy shall not be disturbed while the homestead character exists.
How often courts cite the case defining “homestead right”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “homestead right” — 7 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.