 | Charles Francis Trower - Jurisprudence - 1851 - 142 pages
...power of the three Henrys, in Edward the Fourth's reign it had become firmly rooted, and its c. 10. ' The correction of that wherein the Law by reason of its universality is deficient.' Grotius de sequitate, § 3. influence daily exerted ; though we have reason to believe that, even then,... | |
 | 1852 - 440 pages
...account of the peculiar and unforeseen circumstances of the case, Equity, which has been defined to be "the correction of that wherein the law (by reason of its universality) is deficient," steps in. and decides the Matter according to the dictates of food conscience. It is therefore evident,... | |
 | Marcius Willson - United States - 1854 - 442 pages
...constitutes at least one district, and the larger states two. '• Equity, considered as a legal term, is the correction of that wherein the law (by reason of its universality) is deficient. Courts of law are those in which decisions are regulated by the known laws of the land. Courts of equity... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Mexico - 1855 - 516 pages
...constitutes at least one district, and the larger states two. i> Equity, considered as a legal term, is the correction of that wherein the law (by reason of its universality) is deficient. Courts of law are those in which decisions are regulated by the known laws of the land. Courts of equity... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1859 - 638 pages
...great hardship to the subject, were they not liable to be tempered by Equity, which has been defined " the correction of that wherein the law by reason of its universality is deficient." («) § 10. We must make one further division before we come to our immediate subject. Municipal Law... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Mexico - 1859 - 446 pages
...constitutes at least one district, and the larger states two. -• &q»ifv, considered as a legal term, is the correction of that wherein the law (by reason of its universality) is deficient Courts of law are those in which decisions are regulated by the known laws of the land. Conru of equity... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 874 pages
...the spirit and reason of the law 59-01 10. From the latter method of interpretation arises equity, or the correction of that wherein the law (by reason of its universality) is deficient 61 SECTION III. Or тик LAWS OF ENOLAXI» 63 to 91 1. The laws of England are of two kinds: the un... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1863 - 640 pages
...deficiencies, and to relieve the severities of the law. We are informed by Grotius, that equity was for " the correction of that wherein the law, (by reason of its universality) is deficient." This being the object and scope of equity jurisdiction, courts of equity have at all times, adhered... | |
 | Henry Lee Scott - History - 1861 - 674 pages
...consequence, or the spirit and reason of the law. From the latter method of interpretation arises equity, or the correction of that wherein the law (by reason of its universality) is deficient ; (BLACKSTONE'S Commentaries.) LAW, (MARTIAL.) By martial law is understood, not laws passed for raising,... | |
 | William Bell - Law - 1861 - 888 pages
...limited sense, and (although somewhat incorrectly) as contrasted with law, equity is defined to be the correction of that wherein the law, by reason of its universality, is deficient. In the latter sense, it is said to be the province of equity to extend the words of the law to cases... | |
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From this method of interpreting laws by the reason of them, arises what we call equity, which is thus defined by Grotius : "the correction of that wherein the law (by reason of its universality) is deficient. 
