Equity - Law Dictionary Search Results
Assessee
Assessee, means an (i) individual; or (ii) a Hindu undivided family, or (ii) an association of persons or a body of individuals consisting, in either case, only or husband and wife governed by the system of...
Bigamy
his conversion to Islam is void marriage in terms of section 494, IPC. It is violative of justice, equity and good conscience. It would also be in violation of rules of natural justice, Sarla Mudgal v. Union
Bond
of the survivors is sufficient, s. 111, ibid., but joint obligees are, prima facie, tenants in common in equity for all other purposes. A bond conditioned either to do something which is malum in se or malum
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Bonus judex secundum equum et bonum judicat, et equitatem stricto juri prefert
judicat, et equitatem stricto juri prefert [Lat.], A good judge decides according to justice and right, and prefers equity to strict law.
Brehon Law
unwritten but delivered by tradition from one to another, in which often times there appeared great show of equity in determining the right between party and party, but in many things repugnant quite, both to God's laws
By contract or otherwise
donor of the gift must be referable to some contractual or other arrangement enforceable in law or in equity, George Da Costa v. Controller of Estate Duty, (1967) 1 SCR 1004: AIR 1967 SC 849 (851): (1967)
Case, action on the
Libel; Slander; Seduction; Lights; Ways; Seducing From Service. A proceeding, action, suit or controversy at law or in equity, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.
Certiorari
680. The long disused 'Bill of Certiorari' to remove into Chancery a suit in some inferior court having equity jurisdiction was an analogous procedure inequitable matters. There is power to grant costs to a successful applicant for
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
court of the Duchy Chamber of Lancaster is held. This is a special jurisdiction concerning all mattes of equity relating to lands held of the Crown in right of the Duchy of Lancaster; which is a thing
Chancery
Chancery [fr. Cancelli, lattice-work, Lat.; chancellerie, Fr.]. the Court of Chancery, which administered equity (see that title) so far as distinct from law, was the highest court of judicature in this kingdom
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