lawfully in possession
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 67 U.S. 575 - Russell v. Ely · 1862Most cited · 18 citing opinions
if the defendant in this case, although he may have been the holder of the mortgage and the debt secured by it, obtained the possession of the block in controversy, by an arrangement with the tenant of the plaintiffs, after said lease had expired, and without their consent, he was not lawfully in possession
How often courts cite the case defining “lawfully in possession”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “lawfully in possession” — 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.