public grant
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 64 U.S. 66 - Dubuque & Pacific Railroad v. Litchfield · 1859Most cited · 111 citing opinions
All grants of this description are strictly construed against the grantees; nothing passes but what is conveyed in clear and explicit language; and as the rights here claimed are derived entirely from the act of Congress, the donation stands on the same footing of a grant by the public to a private company, the terms of which must be plainly expressed in the statute; and if not thus expressed, they cannot be implied.
How often courts cite the case defining “public grant”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “public grant” — 107 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.