secured creditor
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 295 U.S. 243 - Ivanhoe Building Loan Ass'n of Newark Nj v. Orr · 1935Most cited · 165 citing opinions
Secured creditor' shall include a creditor who has security for his debt upon the property of the bankrupt of a nature to be assignable under this Act (title), or who owns such a debt for which some indorser, surety, or other persons secondarily liable for the bankrupt has such security upon the bankrupt's assets.
How often courts cite the case defining “secured creditor”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “secured creditor” — 165 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.