satisfaction
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 70 U.S. 1 - Lovejoy v. Murray · 1865Most cited · 330 citing opinions
bar to joint trespass action
nothing short of satisfaction, or its equivalent, can make good a plea of former judgment in trespass, offered as a bar in an action against another joint trespasser, who was not party to the first judgment
How often courts cite the cases defining “satisfaction”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “satisfaction” — 385 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 · 1865–1865
the whole extent of the rule is that the judgment is satisfied when the execution has been so used as to change the title of the goods, or in some way to deprive the debtor of his property