joint obligation
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 82 U.S. 140 - Pickersgill v. Lahens · 1872Most cited · 18 citing opinions
it is not a principle of equity that every joint covenant shall be treated as if it were joint and several. The court will not vary the legal effect of the instrument by making it several as well as joint, unless it can see, either by independent testimony or from the nature of the transaction itself, that the parties concerned intended to create a separate as well as joint, liability.
How often courts cite the case defining “joint obligation”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “joint obligation” — 18 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.