keep safely
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 44 U.S. 578 - United States v. Prescott · 1845Most cited · 81 citing opinions
official bond
The obligation to keep safely the public money is absolute, without any condition, express or implied; and nothing but the payment of it, when required, can discharge the bond.
How often courts cite the case defining “keep safely”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “keep safely” — 81 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1845–1845
requiring ordinary diligence in some, and extraordinary diligence in others.