perfected transfer
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 323 U.S. 365 - McKenzie v. Irving Trust Co. · 1945Most cited · 568 citing opinions
A transfer shall be deemed to have been made at the time when it became so far perfected that no bona-fide purchaser from the debtor and no creditor could thereafter have acquired any rights in the property so transferred superior to the rights of the transferee therein.
How often courts cite the case defining “perfected transfer”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “perfected transfer” — 558 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.