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That duty

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 121 U.S. 27 - Richmond v. Irons · 1887Most cited · 577 citing opinions

the collection and' reduction to money of the 'assets of the bank, and the payment of creditors equally and ratably so far as the assets prove sufficient.

How often courts cite the cases defining “That duty”

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Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “That duty” — 672 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 · 1887–1890

  1. the collection and reduction to money of the assets of the bank, and the payment of creditors equally and ratably, so far as the assets prove sufficient.