Laches: What constitutes blameworthy delay by plaintiff, 322n., 342, 354. Definitions of delay, laches, and acquiescence, 368. Connivance, 356. Estoppel, 344, 346n.; various kinds of injury to defendant by the delay, 353n.; active encouragement by plaintiff, 347n.; plaintiff need not assume wrongful action by defendant, 346n.; plaintiff's knowledge of tort, 347n.; effect of defend- ant's good or bad faith, 355. 362n. Whether delay less than the period of Statute of Limita- tions is a bar without estoppel. 342, 344, 348, 351, 352n., 368. 369; continuous wrongs, 355; dis- tinction between protection of legal and equitable rights, 342 and n., 359; between executory and executed interests, 369; delay barring some wrongful conduct, not other, 346n.; as bar to ac- counting, 348, but not injunction, 346n. Delay by plaintiff's prede- cessor, 352n.; effect at law, 347n.
Laches in suits against public service cos., 336, 343n.; in nui- sances, 344, 347n.; unfair compe- tition, 343n., 346n., 347n.; reclaiming chattel, 351; patent suits, 354; waters, 344, 347n.; equitable servitudes, 347n.; against ticket-scalpers, 355; in public nui- sances, 450n.
Temporary injunctions, 203n., 347n.; mandatory, 347n., 352n. Raising laches by demurrer, 56n., 352n.
Statute of Limitations: Against reversioners and remaindermen, 193n. Whether Statute is binding in equity, 368. Continuous wrongs, 341n., 342n.; permanent structure of public service co., 336; build- ing increasingly encroaching plaintiff's land, 362; cloud on title, 341n. Suit in equity when Statute has run against legal relief, 353n. State Statutes of Limita- tion in U. S. courts, 342, 354. Contempt, 498n. See Prescription. LANDLORD AND TENANT. waste in long leases, 10, 14n.; obligation to repair and permissive waste, 15; neglect of tenant to care for crops, execute crop mortgages, etc., 169;
injunctions by landlord or tenant against third party, 191, 192n., 334, 335n.; prescription and ad- verse possession against landlord or tenant, 193n.; whether rever- sioner must join tenant as CO- plaintiff, 192n.; injunction by landlord to prevent liability to tenant under lease, arising from acts of defendant, 191n. LAW, inadequacy of remedy. See Inadequacy of other Remedies; absence of remedy at. See Equity Follows the Law. Equitable rem- edies and principles in legal actions. See Common Law Courts, Ejectment.
LEAVE TO APPLY, 210, 216n. LEGAL RIGHT, determination of, by jury. See Establishment of the
LEGISLATION, Compared with judicial
law-making, 141; authorization of injury by public service com- panies, and constitutionality of want of compensation, 318, 321n., 328, 330n.. 416n. See Comparative Injuries.
Statutory alterations of equi- table jurisdiction over torts; Note, 420. Curtailment, 414-437; legal- izing small nuisances, 414, 419n.; limiting use of injunction in labor disputes, 421, 437n. Extension: fire-limit and spite fence cases, 420 and n.; public aesthetics, 446n.; public nuisances, 456, 461n., 462n.; suits by private citizens against, 456, 461n.; criminal syndicalism, 479n.
Statutes regulating circumstances under which contempt may be punished, 480; requiring jury trial in contempt proceedings, 505, 508n. LIMITATIONS, STATUTE OF. See Laches and Statute of Limitations. LITERARY PROPERTY, injunctions to protect, 81, 84n., 140n., 370; in dramatic compositions, 81, 84n.; history and relation to copyright, 84n.; duration, 84n.; particular forms, books, paintings and drawings, lectures, abstracts of title, 84n.; forms of legal docu- ments, 86n.; exclusive right to photograph, 128, 130n.; news, 130, 143n. Denial of relief for im-
MANDAMUS, as adequate remedy at law, 200n.; unclean hands as bar to, 413n.
MAILS, wrongful exclusion from, in- junction against, 242.
MASTER AND SERVANT. See Trade
Secrets; Labor Law; Agent. MEDICINE, injunctions against illegal practise of, 455n.
MINES, 9n., 35, 37 and n., 38, 39, 43, 166, 174n., 206n.; injunction against occupation by state troops, 244n.; possible jurisdiction of equity over, 247n.; doctrine of comparative injury, 304n., 313, smelters, 314, hydraulic mine debris, 314, 393.
MONOPOLIES. See Restraint of Trade; Patents; Copyrights; Fran- chises.
MORTGAGES, waste by mortgagor and mortgagee, 29 and n.; priority of damages against public service company for indirect injuries, 328n. See Specific Performance of Contracts.
MOTIVE, plaintiff's and defendant's, See Clean Hands. MOVING-PICTURES, distribution con- tracts, 95, 99n.; employment, 396. MULTIPLICITY OF SUITS, 249n. See Inadequacy of Other Remedies. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS, injunctions against torts by, 181n.; 344n.; abatement by, of public nuisance, 198, 454n.; municipal water supply unauthorized by state board of health, 450n.; injunction against removal of officer, 485; against passage of ordinance, 498.
NOTICE. See Procedure; Enforce- ment of Specific Relief. NUISANCES, history in equity, 2, 55– 57; general references, 66n.; pos- sibility of nuisance without plain- tiff's owning land, 65n.; relation to repeated trespasses, 36, 175- 178; to easements, 54n. Moving up to 60, and n., 393. Absence of injury to plaintiff's personal enjoyment. 60-65. See Enjoyment of Land. Acquisition of prescrip-
tive right by defendants, 6ln., 62, 64n. Attracting crowds, 205n. Interference with water rights, See Waters.
Injunctions against, 2, 55-66, 156, 180, 198, 201, 217, 233, 270, 272, 288-303, 315-343, 344, 414; en- croachments above and below sur- face, 175, 178; temporary and oc- casional, 180, 181n.; interstate, 447, 449n.; illegal saloon, 455n. Determination of existence of tort, 57, 66n.; necessity of trial at law to establish tort, 55, 66n., 154n.; guiding decrees, 232n., 233, 235n. Effect of statute allowing specific relief in action at law, 270. Doctrine of comparative in- juries, 288-303, 315-343, 393. Laches, 344, 347n. Contributory negligence, 362. Effect of plain- tiff's speculative purchase, 393; of his tortious conduct, 412n., 413n.
Accounting for profits and damages, 250n., 251, 253, 257n. Legalizing small nuisances, 414, 419n., 420. NUISANCES, PUBLIC. See Social and Public Interests.
PARTIES, in equity, See Procedure; Enforcement of Specific Relief. PARTNERSHIP, injunctions against sale of partnership goods on exe- cution by separate creditor, 184n.; Statute of Limitations and ac- counting, 350n.; illegal partner- ships, 392n.
PATENTS, history in equity,
U. S. statutes, 67; injunctions, 68- 70; temporary injunctions, 205n.; need of jury trial of legal right. 68, 70; desirability of technical judges, 70; exclusive contract to supply material to licensee, 100n. Accounting of profits and damages, 68, 249n., 250n., 255, 258n., 265n.; against executor, 250n. Bond from defendant, 206n. Sur- render or destruction of infringing articles, 210n. Doctrine of com- parative injuries, 294n., 299n.. 314; infringement in manufacture of articles for use by state or U. S., 323n.; laches, 354. Effect
of restraint of trade by plaintiff, 383n.; of use for gambling, and other misusers and non-utility, 384, 391n.; of non-user, 387n. POLICE, injunctions against surveil- lance by, 392n.; forcible ejection by, as adequate remedy, 193, 195n.
POLITICAL SUITS, doctrine of com- parative injuries, 299n.; enforce- ment of contempt proceedings for disobedience of injunction, 485, 491n.
PRECEDENTS, equity decisions as, 53. PRESCRIPTION, by interference with
water rights, 61n.; by noise and vibration, 62, 64n.; danger of, as ground for injunction, 167, 189, 191n., 193n.; against reversioner or tenant, 193n. See Laches and Statute of Limitations. PRIZE-FIGHTS. See Social and Public Interests.
PROCEDURE, need of subpoena before injunction, 47.2, 205n.; notice (telegraphic) without service, 498, 500n.; binding unnamed persons, See Enforcement of Specific Re- lief; necessary and indispensable parties, 55n.; whether reversioner must be a co-defendant with tenant, 18n.1, or a co-plaintiff, 192n.
Pleading inadequacy of legal remedy and apprehension of in- jury in bill, 163; pleading ade- quacy of legal remedy as defense, 56n., 165n.; pleading unclean hands, 378n.; demurrer to raise necessity or adequacy of trial at law, 56n., 154n., 165n., or to raise laches, 56n., 352n.
Disposal of whole case on mo- tion for dissolution of temporary injunction, 47n.3; bond from de- fendant, 205n.; from plaintiff as condition of relief, 509n.; receiver, 206n.; leave to apply, 210, 216n.; issue or dissolution of injunction without regard to the merits because of misconduct, 222, 223n.
Suspension of injunctions pend- ing appeals (supersedeas), 205n., 210n., 245n., 509n.; decision on the merits on appeal from temporary injunction, 509n.; bill of review, 414.
Code Procedure: disputed
legal right, 154n.; adequacy of legal remedy, 165n.; injunction in action at law, 44; jury trial for damages, 257n., 272, 276n.; Code provisions, 258 ff. See Profits and Damages.
Federal Equity Practice: trans- fers from equity to law and vice versa, 263; state Statutes of Limi- tations, 342n.; Federal Equity Rules on process and enforcement of decrees, 483, 484.
See Injunctions; Jury trial; Profits and Damages; Enforce- ment of Specific Relief; United States Judicial Code; Jurisdiction, Equitable.
PROFITS AND DAMAGES: In addition to injunctions, 246, 249, 250n., 251, 257n., 258n. Damages as dis- tinguished from profits, 250, 251, 252n., 257n.; exemplary damages, 257n.; under statutes, 257n.; measure of damages for use of land, 268, 270n.; jury trial, 257n.
In lieu of injunctions, 246, 313, 247n., 248, 249n., 286, 287n.; of specific performance, 249n. Under statutes, 263-268, 272-280; in lieu of mandatory injunctions, 263, 265n., 333n., 334n.; of prohibitory injunctions, 265n., 266, 267n., 272, 276n.; in anticipation of future tort, 266, 267n., 332, 333n.; con- tinuous torts, 267n., 333n., 334n.; specific performance, 265n.; need of jury trial, 272, 276n.
Statutes authorizing specific re- lief and substitutional redress in same proceeding, 258-263; judicial construction, 257n., 261n., 263- 280; as bar to equitable proceed- ings, 270, 272n.; 200n., jury trial under, 272-280; proceedings for recovery of land under, 276, 280n., action for specific relief as bar to later action for damages, 178n, 280n.
Profits and damages for waste, 246, 247n., 250n.; equitable waste, 22, 207n., 247n.; trespass, 250n., 257n.; nuisance, 250n., 257n.; patents. 68, 249n., 250n., 258n.; copyrights, 249n., 250n., 258n.; reasonable royalty rule, 250n.; un- fair competition, 250n., 251, 256n.; trade-marks, 106n., 249, 250n., 258n.; trade secrets, 87n.; inter-
ference with contracts, 257n.; obstruction of easement, 257n.
Accounting against executor for proceeds of injury to land, 38, 207n., 247n., 270n.; against same for profits of patent, 250n.; be- tween co-tenants, 34n.
Measure of damages for " pro- spective" injury to land: in Eng- land, 331n., 333n.; in New York, and generally in U. S., 338n. Laches, 346n., 348.
Paying fine to pltff. in contempt, 494 and n. PROHIBITION, WRITS OF,
waste in early law, 6, 7n.; to pre- vent contempt proceedings for violation of void injunctions, 222n., 491n. Of intoxicating liquors, See Social and Public Interests.
PUBLIC INTERESTS. See Social and Public Interests.
PUBLIC UTILITIES, resort to Public Service Commission as adequate remedy, 200n.; mandatory injunc- tions against carriers, 218n., 223n.; form of injunction under Inter- state Commerce Act, 237; seizure of shipper's coal by R. R., 307, 312n.
See Franchises; Eminent Domain; Comparative Injuries; Laches and Statute of Limita- tions; Administrative Law.
RECEIVER, to make repairs, 15n.; as substitute for temporary injunc- tion, 206n.; Judicature Act, 260. REMEDIAL DEVICES. See Injunctions. Form and Scope of Decrees. RES ADJUDICATA. See Judgments. RESTRAINT OF TRADE, exclusive fran- chises, 80n.; contracts imposing geographical or price restrictions, 88n., 99.; form of injunction under Sherman Act, 236; by plaintiff, whether bar to relief, 381, 383n. REVERSIONER,
See Landlord and
Tenant. ROLT'S ACT, SIR JOHN, 154n., 259n., 297.
SEQUESTRATION, 482, 484 and n. SERVITUDES, in chattels, 88n., 99n.; in land, doctrine of comparative in- jury, 307n.; laches, 347n.; effect of plaintiff's obstruction, 412n.
SOCIAL AND PUBLIC INTERESTS, EQUI- TABLE PROTECTION OF, 438-479; dis- tinction between public and social, 438n., 444n.; history, 438-440, 441, 442n., 444n. Chancery as a court of state, 438. Social interests in equitable waste, 18, 19. Problem cases, 455n. Miscellaneous cases,
Purprestures: On tide-flowed lands, 441, 444n.; injunctions against purpresture if no public nui- sance, 444n.; nuisance injuring government land, 444n.
Aesthetic interests, 446n. In- junction to restrict height of build- ing, 445.
Suit by sovereign in another's courts to enjoin tort to subjects: interstate nuisance, 447, 449n.; issue of money for revolutionary govt., 449n.; conversion of public chattels, 449n.; abatement of inter- national nuisance, 449n.
Public Nuisances: Alternative methods for abatement, 440. In- junctions against obstruction of navigation, 441, 444n., and of high- ways, 77, 205n., 327n., 444n.,; annoying businesses, 444n., 449.
Prize-fights, disorderly houses, illegal saloons, etc., 450-461; equi- table jurisdiction without statute, 450, 453n.; with statute, 456, 461n., 462n., 503.; injunction as preroga- tive writ, 453n. Suits by private citizens, see infra. National Pro- hibition Act, 462n. Abatement against subsequent owner of build- ing, without notice of decree, 502n. 503, 505n.
Waste of natural gas, 455n.; re- marriage in violation of divorce decree, 455n.; illegal practise of medicine, 455n.; illegal sales of in- toxicating liquor, 453n., 454n., 455n.. 461n., 462n.; violation of fire-limit ordinances, 420n., 454n.
Large strikes, 462-479; injunc- tions under federal jurisdiction over mails and interstate commerce, 462, 472n.; war strikes, 473n.; violation of Kansas Industrial Court Act, 473, 478n.
Criminal syndicalism, 479n.
Adequacy of criminal prosecu- tion and other legal remedies as bar to relief, 77, 198, 200n., 453n.; doc-
trine of comparative injuries, 447, 449, 450n.; war needs as bar to in- junction, 449, 450n.; as basis for injunction, 473n.; laches, 449n.
Suits by private persons to en- join public wrongs: Without statu- tory authorization, obstruction of streets by jitneys, 77; factory nui- sance, 198, 200n.; fire-limit cases, 420n.; unauthorized water supply, 450n.; illegal practise of medicine, 455n.; fraudulent assay offices, 455n.; in general, 420n., 454n.; problem cases, 455n. With statu- tory authority, 456, 461n. Illegal saloons, 455n., 461n., 462n.
Suits by municipal corporations, 454n.
Illegality as bar to equitable re- lief. See Clean Hands. SOLVENCY OF DEFENDANT. See In- adequacy of other Remedies. SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE OF CONTRACTS, jurisdiction over torts compared, 9n.; long leases, 10n.; contracts to repair, 15n.; contract by tenant to care for land and execute crop mortgages, 169; remedial devices as condition of relief, 235n.; damages in equity when specific perform- ance is impossible, 249n.; under English statutes, 265n.; as incident to injunction against tort, 257n. STATUTES. See Patents; Copyrights;
Laches and Statute of Limitations; Legislation; and names of various statutes.
tions, 205n. 100, 107n., 111n.; registration, 101n.; use of same mark or name in different business, 103n.; history, 107n.; requirements of validity, 107n.; foreign, 107n.; union labels, 107n.; relation to unfair competi- tion, 107n.; transfer apart from business, 107, 111n.; name of car- toon figures, 148n. Accounting of profits, 106n., 249, 250n., 258n. Misrepresentation by plaintiff, 372- 380; illegal conduct of plaintiff, 383n.
Geographical scope,
TRADE SECRETS: Injunctions to pro- tect, 85, 87n., 107, 401; temporary injunctions, 205n. Distinction from trade experience, 86n.; history in equity, 87n.; theories of protection, 87n.; bona fide purchaser of, 88n., 107; safeguarding during trial, 88n., 294n.; actions at law, 88n.; gen- eral references, 88n.; ideas for organization, 87, 91n.; solicitation of former employer's customers, 88n.; assets in bankruptcy, 88n. Accounting, 87n. Plaintiff's re- straint of trade. 383n.; plaintiff's wrongful acquisition of secret, 401, 412n.
TRADING STAMPS. See Contracts, In- terference with.
TRESPASS, definition in equity, 35n.; history, 35-42.
Injunctions against, to land, 35-46. 152, 166, 168, 169, 170, 171. 195, 208, 210, 219, 244n., 248, 268, 276, 281, 286, 299, 362, 500. Efect of possession and defendant's daim of title, 40, 42n., 44, 174n.. 260; under Codes, 276, 280. ment at law of legal right, 35-44, 152, 154n. Continuous and re- peated trespasses, 171–178; relation to nuisances, 36, 175, 178n.; by fowls and animals, 174n. Encroach- ments below and above surface of land, 166, 171-178; at surface, 276 (jury trial), 286, 287n. (comparative injuries); compensation to bona fide occupant, 287n.; increasing en- croachment, 362.
Trespasses to chattels by sale. asportation, etc., 35, 182, 184n., 259n., 455n.; seizure of coal by R. R., 307, 313n.; laches in reclaiming, 351.
Accounting, 250n., 257n.; against
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