Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Maxims of Equity

1. Equity will not suffer a wrong to be without a remedy;

2. Equity follows the law;

3. He who seeks equity must do equity;

4. He who comes to equity must come with clean hands;

5. Where the equities are equal the law prevails;

6. Where the equities are equal the first in time prevails;

7. Equity imputes an intention to fulfill an obligation;

8. Equity regards as done that which ought to be done;

9. Equity is equality;

10 Equity looks to the intent rather than the form;

11. Delay defects equities;

12. Equity acts in personam.