transfer by incompetent
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 323 U.S. 594 - City Bank Farmers Trust Co. v. McGowan · 1945Most cited · 152 citing opinions
where, as in New York, the court is to substitute itself as nearly as may be for the incompetent, and to act upon the same motives and considerations as would have moved her, the transfer is, in legal effect, her act and the motive is hers
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “transfer by incompetent” — 152 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.