equity court

However, equity courts also realized that these extraordinary remedies were subject to abuse.

He was instrumental in establishing Pennsylvania's equity courts, thus drawing national attention to himself.

However, on the advice of Lord Thurlow, he turned with better success to the equity courts.

The increase of his chancery practice soon caused him to abandon the common law bar, and he confined himself to practising in the equity courts.

As a legal administrator Wolsey reinvented the equity court, where the verdict was decided by the judge on the principle of "fairness".

Chancery or equity courts were one half of the English civil justice system, existing side-by-side with law courts.

Equity courts developed such a remedy, the injunction, that provided an ongoing bar to the activity that caused the damage.

Circuit Courts are the highest common law and equity courts of record exercising original jurisdiction within Maryland.

Such remedies were developed in the equity courts as the payment of damages was often not a sufficient remedy for a plaintiff in certain circumstances.

The Court of Requests was a minor equity court in England and Wales.

Local rulers continued to administer their territories, but consular authorities assumed jurisdiction for the equity courts established earlier by the foreign mercantile communities.

With the chancery or equity courts disappearing or being subsumed under courts of law, solicitors became obsolete by the late 19th century.

Equity courts were widely distrusted in the northeastern U.S. following the American Revolution.

The Delaware Court of Chancery is the most prominent of the small number of remaining equity courts.

Equity courts "handled lawsuits and petitions requesting remedies other than damages, such as writs, injunctions, and specific performance."

Despite these warning signs, the Exchequer continued to flourish, maintaining a large amount of business, and by 1810 was almost entirely an equity court, having little common law work.

And the equity courts granted these petitions quite regularly and often without regard for the amount of time that had lapsed since the law day had passed.

It allowed the English Court of Chancery to settle the rights of parties, a group known as the "multitude", in one suit, in equity court.

In England, at common law, there were "Masters in Chancery," who acted in aid of the Equity Courts.

In 1800 Leach gave up all common law work, and confined himself to the equity courts, where his pleadings and terse style of speaking secured him an extensive business.

His father served as a Judge of the Court of Chancery, an equity court, and the Bedford County Court.

After U.S. courts merged law and equity, American law courts adopted many of the procedures of equity courts.

Judges sitting in courts of equity in common law systems (such as judges in the equity courts of Delaware) are called "Chancellors."

The Exchequer maintained a clear rule with the other equity court, the Court of Chancery; a case heard in one could not be re-heard in the other.

Historically, the procedure under which one court certifies a question to another, arises out of the distinction in the law of England between common law courts and equity courts.