 | Samuel Maunder - 1853 - 872 σελίδες
...in an enlarged view, Blackstone observes, "equity, in its true and general meaning, is the soul aud spirit of all law ; positive law is construed, and...it. In this, equity is synonymous with justice." In English jurisprudence, a court of equity or chancery, is a court which corrects the operation of the... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1853 - 890 σελίδες
...reason of them, arises, what we call Equity ; " 3 and more fully in another .place, where he says : " Equity, in its true and genuine meaning, is the soul...law ; positive law is construed, and rational law is 1 Dig. Lib. 40, tit. 9, J. 12, § 1. See also 3 Black. Comm. 430, 431 ; 1 Wooddes. Lect. vii. p. 192... | |
 | 1853 - 448 σελίδες
...Oxford trans.) " Equity," says Blackstone, " in its true and genuine meaning, is the soul and spirk of all law ; positive law is construed and rational law is made by it. In this respect, equity is synonymous with justice ; in that, to the true and snmd interpretation of the rule."... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1854 - 756 σελίδες
...that optical glasses are useful to those who are short sighted, or whose visual organs are deficient. Equity, in its true and genuine meaning, is the soul and spirit of the law; positive law is construed, and rational law is made by it.(c) When, in certain cases, the... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - 1854 - 672 σελίδες
...and general meaning, is the soul and spirit of all law ; Eositive law is construed, and rational iw is made by it. In this, equity is synonymous with justice." In English jurisprudence, a court of equity or chancery, is a court which corrects the operation of the... | |
 | Isaac Edwards - 1855 - 708 σελίδες
...great ' In its true *nd genuine meaning, equity is the lou] and ipirit of fill laws. /'•--.- 1 1 r law is construed, and rational law is made by it : in this, equity ia synoymoo* with justice ; in that, with the true sense and sound interpretation of the rule. 3 Black.... | |
 | John Bate (mechanician.) - 1857 - 118 σελίδες
...indifferent foot. It is the same thing with the chancellor's conscience. " — SELDEN'S Table Talh. Equity, in its true and genuine meaning, is the soul...law is construed, and rational law is made, by it. Jury. Pausanias relates, that at the trial of Mars, for murder, in the court denominated Areopngus... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1860 - 778 σελίδες
...who have attended but little in those courts must be ol'ten at a loss for materials. Equity, then, in its true and genuine meaning, is the soul and spirit...law is made, by it. In this, equity is synonymous to justice ; in that, to the true sense and sound interpretation of the rule. But the very te7-ms of... | |
 | Michael Thompson - 1863 - 472 σελίδες
...is founded in natural justice, in honesty, and in right, ex aqua et bono. In an enlarged legal view, "equity, in its true and genuine meaning, is the soul and spirit of the law; positive law is construed, and rational law is made by it. In this, equity is made synonymous... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1865 - 642 σελίδες
...general nature of equity; which in its true and genuine meaning, is the soul and spirit if all law ; for positive law is construed, and rational law is made by it. In this, equity is synonymous to justice; in that, to the true sense and sound interpretation of the rule. But the very terms of... | |
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Equity, then, in its true and genuine meaning, is the soul and spirit of all law: positive law is construed, and rational law is made, by it. In this, equity is synonymous, to justice; in that, to the true sense and sound interpretation of the rule. 
