 | Sir John Comyns - 1822 - 838 pages
...court. 3 Com. 51, 53. (A) 1. Equity in its true and genuine meaning, it the soul and spirit of all law : positive law is construed, and rational law is made, by it. In this, equity is synonymous to justice; in that, to the true sense and sound interpretation oi the rale. But the very terms of... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - 1823 - 872 pages
...and a court of equity. Equity then, in its true and genuine meaning, is the soul and spirit of all law : positive law is construed, and rational law is made, by it. In this, equity is synonymous to justice; in that, to the true sense and sound interpretation of the rule. But the very terms of... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 568 pages
...a loss for materials. EQUITY then, in it's true and genuine meaning, is the sonl and spirit of all law : positive law is construed, and rational law is made by it. In this equity is synonymous to justice : in that to the true sense and sound interpretation of the rule. But the very terms of... | |
 | Thomas Stephen - 1835 - 810 pages
...of redress is pursued in each. Equi/y, in its true and genuine import, is the soul and spirit of all law. Positive, law is construed, and rational law is made by it. Nothing more is intended by equity than the sound interpretation of the law : the words of the law... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1839 - 658 pages
...another place, where he says, " Equity, in its true and genuine meaning, is the soul and spirit of all law; positive law is construed, and rational law is...it. In this, Equity is synonymous with justice; in that, to the true and sound interpretation of the rule." 4 § 7. In this sense Equity must have a place... | |
 | George Bowyer - 1841 - 742 pages
...interposes. " Equity," says Blackstone, " in its true and genuine meaning, is the soul and spirit of all law : positive law is construed, and rational law is made by it." The same principles manifestly apply where the words of the law do not expressly comprehend some case... | |
 | 1843 - 740 pages
...equity ^[." And again : " Equity, in its true and genuine meaning, is the " soul and spirit of all law ; positive law is construed, and " rational law is made by it. In this, equity is synonymous " to justice ; in that, to the true sense and sound interpreta"tionoftherule**." * Braeton thus defines... | |
 | 1843 - 574 pages
...Justice Blackstone has said that " Equity in its true and genuine meaning, is the soul and spirit of all law ; positive law is construed, and rational law is made by it. In this, equity is synonymous to justice; in that, to the true sense and sound interpretation of the rule." And yet this is not the... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1843 - 752 pages
...In an enlarged legal view, " equity, in its true and genuine meaning, is the soul and spirit of the law ; positive law is construed and rational law is made by it. In this, equity is made synonymous with justice ; in that, to the true and sound interpretation of the rule." 3 Bl. Com.... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1845 - 1174 pages
...that "in its true and genuine meaning, Equity is the SOUL AND SPIRIT OF ALL LAWS. — Positive lawis construed, and rational. law is made by it : — in this, equity is synonymous with justice: in that, with the true sense and sound interpretation of the rule."* Thus comes it to pass, that law and... | |
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Equity, then, in its true and genuine meaning, is the soul and spirit of all law: positive law is construed, and rational law is made, by it. In this, equity is synonymous to justice ; in that, to the true sense and sound interpretation of the rule. 
