tacit mortgage
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 76 U.S. 295 - Lobrano v. Nelligan · 1869Most cited · 5 citing opinions
The security is called a tacit mortgage, which is nothing more than a regulation by law, to assure the property of the minor in the custody of the parent against loss.
How often courts cite the case defining “tacit mortgage”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “tacit mortgage” — 5 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.