| William Blackstone - 1916 - 1376 Seiten
...specialty, reason and equity of his very case." Which provision (with a little accuracy in the clerks of the chancery, and a little liberality in the judges, by...effectually answered all the purposes of a court of equity ; « i4 except that of obtaining a discovery by the oath of the defendant. ™ A great variety of new... | |
| William Blackstone - 1916 - 1380 Seiten
...and equity of his very ease." Which provision (with, a little aceuraey in the elerks of the ehancery, and a little liberality in the judges, by extending rather than narrowing the remedial effeets of the writ) might have effeetually answered all the purposes of a eourt of equity ; ° " exeept... | |
| Mississippi State Bar Association - 1910 - 118 Seiten
...Blackstone that, if the spirit of that act had been carried out, "It might have effectually answered all of the purposes of a court of equity; except that of obtaining a discovery by the oath of a defendant." As it was, however, the result led to the establishment of Equity, as a separate and... | |
| University of Colorado (Boulder campus) - 1915 - 518 Seiten
...as to make it "plain, adequate and complete" for all the altercations 1 Kane's Casu on PI, p. 144. of men. Blackstone, referring to the action of trespass...the purposes of a court of equity; except that of ob taming a discovery by the oath of the defendant."1 Nor is there wanting a more modern witness. Austin... | |
| Pennsylvania Bar Association - 1895 - 488 Seiten
...suitors." And of this statute he says: "Which provision, with a little accuracy in the clerks of the chancery, and a little liberality in the judges, by...the writ, might have effectually answered all the pur• poses of a court of equity ; except that of obtaining a discoverv by the oath of the defendant... | |
| William Blackstone - 1979 - 505 Seiten
...reafon, and equity of his very cafe1. Which provifion (with a little accuracy in the clerks of the chancery, and a little liberality in the judges, by extending rather than narrowing the remedial effedts of the writ) might have effectually anfwered all the purpofcs of a court of equity k ; except... | |
| Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett - 1983 - 366 Seiten
...separate jurisdiction of equity: "... which provision (with a little accuracy in the clerks of the Chancery, and a little liberality in the Judges, by...except that of obtaining a discovery by the oath of the defendant."" But if the common lawyers refused to avail themselves of the benefits of the act, the... | |
| Theodore Dreiser - 1987 - 1168 Seiten
...Commentaries B III. Ch. 4) making a provision which, by a little liberality in the Judges of the courts of law "might have effectually answered all the purposes of a court of equity." — As our ideas of a court of equity are derived from the English Jurisprudence, so doubtless the... | |
| David Lemmings - 2005 - 278 Seiten
...of form and circumstance, it being better to admit a mischief in particular, the action on the case 'might have effectually answered all the purposes...except that of obtaining a discovery by the oath of the defendant', 3 Comm. 51 (emphasis added). 113 John Reeves, History of the English Law (London, 1787),... | |
| 360 Seiten
...Blackstone writes to the same effect : this " provision, (with a little accuracy in the clerks of the Chancery, and a little liberality in the judges, by...purposes of a Court of Equity, except that of obtaining discovery by the oath of the Defendant2," and the idea is not confined to modern writers, for a judge... | |
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