Equitable - Law Dictionary Search Results

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which has acquired jurisdiction in a case to decide both equitable and legal questions provided that the legal questions are incidental

equity cases. When a civil case involves both legal and equitable issues or procedure, either party may demand a jury trial

subrogation 1 : an equitable doctrine holding that when a third party pays a creditor

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unclean hands : an equitable doctrine: a complainant will be denied relief if he or

over personal estate, and in that case also only the equitable estate now passes; a common instance is the power of

freehold estate. The (English) L.P. Act, 1925, has preserved as equitable interests many of the incidents of former freehold estates, but

does not, how ever impair or affect the validity of equitable assignments in any way, and there may still be a

generally, when an estate is subject to a trust or equitable interest or lien, and a person purchases it for value,

widow's free-bench is barred by a jointure, whether legal or equitable; or by the alienation of the copyhold lands by the

or a note) that can be quickly converted into cash equitable asset : an asset esp. in an estate that is

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