Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence: As Administered in England and America, Volumen2Little, Brown,, 1870 |
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... plaintiff is entitled to a specific performance of the agreement ; but , pending the proceedings , the very subject of the agree- ment , to which the plaintiff has by the decree been declared entitled , has been abstracted . The stone ...
... plaintiff is entitled to a specific performance of the agreement ; but , pending the proceedings , the very subject of the agree- ment , to which the plaintiff has by the decree been declared entitled , has been abstracted . The stone ...
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... plaintiff is now entitled to relief ; but the form in which that relief is to be given is certainly a matter of very serious consideration . I think that the amount of what is due to the plain- tiff ought to be ascertained by means of ...
... plaintiff is now entitled to relief ; but the form in which that relief is to be given is certainly a matter of very serious consideration . I think that the amount of what is due to the plain- tiff ought to be ascertained by means of ...
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... plaintiff did not ask a specific performance ; that is , in a case precisely the same as the present ; for , upon this appeal , the plaintiff does not ask a specific performance . Had it been supposed that this court had the ...
... plaintiff did not ask a specific performance ; that is , in a case precisely the same as the present ; for , upon this appeal , the plaintiff does not ask a specific performance . Had it been supposed that this court had the ...
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... plaintiff , and not where compensation was ordinarily sought by the defendant , in resistance or modification of the plaintiff's claim . In these latter cases , the maxim often prevails , that he who seeks equity shall do equity . Thus ...
... plaintiff , and not where compensation was ordinarily sought by the defendant , in resistance or modification of the plaintiff's claim . In these latter cases , the maxim often prevails , that he who seeks equity shall do equity . Thus ...
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... Plaintiff must make affidavit against collusion . § 810. Case where court ordered an account also . § 811. Cases of annuitants and tenants . § 812. Claims must be in privity with each other . § 813. But equity maintains more extensive ...
... Plaintiff must make affidavit against collusion . § 810. Case where court ordered an account also . § 811. Cases of annuitants and tenants . § 812. Claims must be in privity with each other . § 813. But equity maintains more extensive ...
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Página 771 - Nothing can call forth this Court into activity but conscience, good faith, and reasonable diligence. Where these are wanting, the Court is passive and does nothing. Laches and neglect are always discountenanced ; and therefore from the beginning of this jurisdiction there was always a limitation to suits in this Court.
Página 695 - We speak familiarly of equitable set-off, as distinguished from the set-off at law ; but it will be found, that this equitable set-off exists in eases where the party seeking the benefit of it can show some equitable ground for being protected against his adversary's demand.
Página 131 - I can only say that if the parts which have been copied cannot be separated from those which are original without destroying the use and value of the original matter, he who has made an improper use of that which did not belong to him must suffer the consequences of so doing.
Página 443 - The clear result of all the cases, without a single exception, is that the trust of a legal estate, whether freehold, copyhold, or leasehold, whether taken in the names of the...
Página 801 - It exists only in contemplation of law and by force of the law; and where that law ceases to operate, and is no longer obligatory, the corporation can have no existence. It must dwell in the place of its creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty.
Página 648 - According to that view, the separate property of a married woman, being a creature of equity, it follows, that if she has a power to deal with it, she has the other power incident to property in general, namely : the power of contracting debts to be paid out of it ; and inasmuch as her creditors have not the means at law of compelling payment of those debts, a court of equity takes upon itself, to give effect to them, not as personal liabilities, but by laying hold of the separate property as the...
Página 127 - When it comes to a question of quantity, it must be very vague. One writer might take all the vital part of another's book, though it might be but a small proportion of the book in quantity. It is not only quantity but value that is always looked to. It is useless to refer to any particular cases as to quantity.
Página 59 - A writ of injunction may be described to be a judicial process, whereby a party is required to do a particular thing, or to refrain from doing a particular thing, according to the exigency of the writ.
Página 809 - ... shall be taken as prima facie evidence of the truth of the matters therein contained, with liberty to the parties interested to take such objections thereto as they may be advised.
Página 598 - If a father does any specific act from which it may reasonably be inferred that he has authorized his son to contract a debt, he may be liable in respect of the debt so contracted ; but the mere moral obligation on the father to maintain his child affords no inference of a legal promise to pay his debts...