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Specific performance

Specific performance. Equity, in obedience to the cardinal rule of natural justice that a person should perform his agreement enforces, pursuant

Inequity

Lack of equity injustice wrong

Joint-tenancy

may be read where the context to admits as referring to the incidents, both at law and in equity, in regard to all titles existing before 1926, and to equitable interests only after 1st January, 1926. When

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Notice

implied, which is no more than evidence of facts which raise such a strong presumption of notice that equity will not allow the presumption to be rebutted. [S. 154, I.P.C. and Art. 61(2)(a) const. 56 Indian Evidence

Trust

Mahanth v. Prescribed Authority, Urban Land Ceiling, Gorakhpur, AIR 1984 All 357. Means the right, enforceable solely in equity, to the beneficial enjoyment of property to which another person holds the legal title; a property interest held

loan

federal agency demand loan : a loan that is subject to repayment upon demand of the lender home equity loan : a loan or line of credit secured by the equity in one's home called also equity

Confusion of boundaries

Confusion of boundaries, was a jurisdiction of equity, concurrent with the Common Law. The Civil Law was far more provident than ours upon the subject of

Consideration

by deed, even the expressed absence of any consideration will not affect its validity either in law or equity (except for some kinds of equitable relief, see infra), because the execution of a deed is attended by

Equitable claims and defences at Common Law

defendant to plead the facts which would entitle him, if judgment were obtained against him, to relief in Equity from such judgment on equitable grounds, by way of defence, and also enabled the plaintiff to avoid such

Fraud

to induce another to act to his or her detriment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 670. In equity and upon the equitable principles which are now applicable in any Court of law, fraud may be described

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