 | Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) - 1902 - 572 Seiten
...shred of character left him. He might appeal to the more equitable court of history — 'equity being the correction of that wherein the law, by reason of its universality, is deficient' — whose greater freedom of procedure would enable him to produce such evidence as would probably... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - 1903 - 636 Seiten
...>>«120U.S. 678(1886); 134 US 624(1889). »o 5 Dutch. (NJ) 99 (1860). EQUITY 39. Definition. —Equity is the correction of that wherein the law by reason of its universality is defective."« To grasp the full meaning of equity there must be an understanding of the term jurisprudence,... | |
 | Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) - 1902 - 468 Seiten
...shred of character left him. He might appeal to the more equitable court of history — 'equity being the correction of that wherein the law, by reason of its universality, is deficient' — whose greater freedom of procedure would enable him to produce such evidence as would probably... | |
 | Nebraska State Bar Association - 1903 - 172 Seiten
...DECADENCE OF EQUITY 155 modern text writers differ with him, when he gave equity the Grotian definition of "the correction of that wherein the law (by reason of its universality) is deficient." 18 But when we have come to a system of judicial discretion, we are back very near to our starting... | |
 | Great Britain. Public Record Office, Samuel Robert Scargill- Bird - 1908 - 506 Seiten
...rigour of the Common Law, considering the intention rather than the words of the law, " equity being the correction of that wherein the " law, by reason of its universality, is deficient." A suit to the equity jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery was commenced by preferring a bill (signed... | |
 | Canal Zone. Supreme Court - 1909 - 524 Seiten
...calls to his aid the application of the rules of equity. Equity is defined by the law writers to be "the correction of that wherein the law by reason of its universality is deficient." In other words, it signifies, used in a broad sense, "natural justice." It is the power conferred on... | |
 | Western Federation of Miners - 1909 - 482 Seiten
...even as long ago as the dawn of the seventeenth century, Grotius, a Dutch jurist, defined "equity" as "the correction of that wherein the law (by reason of its universality) is deficient." You may say to us that we should apply to the courts for relief, and if the courts of law do not supply... | |
 | 1910 - 548 Seiten
...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.' For since in laws, all cases cannot be foreseen or expressed, it is necessary that when the general... | |
 | William Callyhan Robinson - 1910 - 832 Seiten
...or justice, and when the word is used in general works on jurisprudence it is sometimes defined as "the correction of that wherein the law, by reason of its universality, is deficient." In the system of the Common Law, however, it denotes certain remedial processes by which relief can... | |
 | Frank Parsons - 1911 - 232 Seiten
...constitute the substance of the common law; and the recorded decisions are the evidence. Equity. Equity is the correction of that wherein the law, by reason of its universality or incomplete development, is deficient. Equity has jurisdiction wherever there is a right and no plain,... | |
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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. 
