Skip to content

Equity - Law Dictionary Search Results

Research workspace

Save terms and build your research trail

A free trial unlocks notes, tags, search history, and the full AI Studio desk for judgment research.

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

Keep your definitions linked to case research

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

Try the research workspace - 7 days free


AI Briefs · Semantic Search · Save & annotate judgments

Start your 7-day free trial