inchoate title
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 303 U.S. 501 - United States v. O'Donnell · 1938Most cited · 83 citing opinions
The effect of these provisions was to invest the state in praesenti with an inchoate title to those lands falling within the description of the act, to be perfected as of the date of the act when the land should be identified and the patent issued as provided by section 2.
How often courts cite the cases defining “inchoate title”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “inchoate title” — 88 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1851–1938
- 1851·54 U.S. 216 - the United States v. William and Alexander McCullagh and James Cornahan Trustees of the Heirs of Alexander McCullagh and David McCaleb[p2]· cited 5×ORIGINAL
this court have always held that under that act the District Court has jurisdiction in those cases only where the title set up by the petitioner is equitable and inchoate; and where there is no grant purporting to convey a legal title as contradistinguished from an equitable one. ... The jurisdiction conferred in either case is that of a court of equity only; and the titles which the court is authorized to confirm, are inchoate and imperfect ones, which upon principles of equity, the government of the United States are bound to confirm and make perfect.
equity jurisdiction