levy
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 64 U.S. 469 - Very v. Watkins · 1859Most cited · 15 citing opinions
to make a valid levy on goods and chattels on a writ of fi. fa., if the officer charged with the duty has a view of them, and they are in his power, and he declares that he makes a levy or seizure of them in execution, such is a valid levy, without taking them into his possession
How often courts cite the cases defining “levy”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “levy” — 20 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 · 1799–1859
- ORIGINAL
the act of suffering goods to remain in the hands of the defendant, after they were levied upon, furnished no presumption of fraud here, as it did in England; and that this departure from the English rule arose from sentiments of humanity, and the peculiar necessities of the country
goods left with defendant