 | Sir John Comyns - Digests, etc - 1822 - 838 pages
...become the daily practice of the court. 3 Com. 51, 53. (A) 1. Equity in its true and genuine meaning, it the soul and spirit of all law : positive law is construed,...law is made, by it. In this, equity is synonymous to justice; in that, to the true sense and sound interpretation oi the rale. But the very terms of... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...consists of both a court of law and a court of equity. Equity then, in its true and genuine meaning, is the soul and spirit of all law : positive law is...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... | |
 | Sir John Comyns - Law - 1824 - 814 pages
...become the daily practice of the court. 3Com. 51, 52. (A) 1. Equity ш its true and genuine meaning, is the soul and spirit of all law: positive law is...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... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 568 pages
...courts, must be often at a loss for materials. EQUITY then, in it's true and genuine meaning, is the sonl and spirit of all law : positive law is construed,...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... | |
 | Thomas Stephen - Constitutional history - 1835 - 806 pages
...Exchequer, yet the same system of redress is pursued in each. Equity, in its true and genuine import, is the soul and spirit of all law. Positive law is construed, and rational law is made by it. Nothing more is intended by equity than the sound interpretation of the law : the words of the law... | |
 | Joseph Story - Equity - 1839 - 658 pages
...Equity ;" 3 and more fully in another place, where he says, " Equity, in its true and genuine meaning, is the soul and spirit of all law; positive law is...by it. In this, Equity is synonymous with justice; in that, to the true and sound interpretation of the rule." 4 § 7. In this sense Equity must have... | |
 | George Bowyer - Constitutional law - 1841 - 742 pages
...case. Equity necessarily interposes. " Equity," says Blackstone, " 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." The same principles manifestly apply where the words of the law do not expressly comprehend some case... | |
 | Books - 1843 - 574 pages
...has exclusive rule. Mr. Justice Blackstone has said that " Equity in its true and genuine meaning, is the soul and spirit of all law ; positive law is...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." And yet this is not the... | |
 | English periodicals - 1843 - 746 pages
...Blackstone, " arises what we call equity If." And again : " Equity, in its true and genuine meaning, is the " soul and spirit of all law; positive law...rational law is made by it. In this, equity is synonymous " to justice ; in that, to the true sense and sound interpreta" tion of the rule **." * Bracton thus... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 914 pages
...enlarged view, Blackstoue observes, "equity, in its true and general meaning, is the soul and spirit of an law ; positive law is construed, and rational law...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... | |
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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. 
