Equity - Law Dictionary Search Results
Quia timet
that a defense at law might be prejudiced or lost if not tried immediately, 27A Am. Jur. 2d Equity 93, at 581. Means 'because he fears'. A legal doctrine that allows a person to seek equitable relief
Rectification
does not express the mutual and concurrent intention of the parties, is a power which the Courts of equity always possessed; but such jurisdiction is exercised with the greatest care and caution, and only on evidence of
Redeem
exchange for something (as real property), Hausman v. Dayton, 653 NE 2d. 1190 (1995). Means to exercise an equity to redemption in (real property) by payment in full of a mortgage debt after default but prior to
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Redemption
compel the mortgagee to recover the property to the mortgagor on the latter paying the mortgage debt. See EQUITY OF REDEMPTION; PROVISO FOR REDEMPTION. 2. Commutation or the substitution of one lump payment for a succession of
Remitter of actions to County Court
plaintiff has no visible means of paying the defendant's costs in the event of the claim failing. Certain equity proceedings may be transferred to the County Court (s. 54), and also certain Admiralty proceedings (s. 58) and
Reporter
reports the decisions upon questions of law in the cases adjudged in the several Courts of Law and Equity. See LAW REPORTS.
Enrollment
DISENTAILING DEED. As to the Central Office, see R.S.C., Ord. LXI. If a party to a suit in Equity, who had obtained a decree or order, was desirous of preventing a rehearing of the cause before the
Crossbill
A bill brought by a defendant in an equity or chancery suit against the plaintiff respecting the matter in question in that suit
Droit
Droit [fr.], right, justice, equity. The many writs of droit or right used in our law were all abolished by 3 & 4
redemptioner
redemptioner : one that redeems ;specif : one that redeems real property under equity of redemption or right of redemption
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