City of Cincinnati v. Board of Education

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that only a Government official has the “authority to make the seizure, or to enforce the forfeiture”
• discussing the right of an informer “to seize” a vessel, but distinguishing between seizure and forfeiture
• “If [property] is condemned, the title of the property is completely changed, and the new title acquired by the forfeiture travels with the thing in all its future progress.”
• “[M]ajor disputes seek to create contractual rights, minor disputes to 17 enforce them.”
• vindictive damages waived by concession that' defendants acted without malice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).