 | Popular encyclopedia - 1846 - 886 pages
...has observed, 3 Comm. 429), ' equity, in its true and genuine meaning, is the soul and spirit of all law ; positive law is 'construed, and rational law...it. In this, equity is synonymous with justice ; in that, to the true and sound interpretation of the rule." Hence Grotius has defined it to be the correction... | |
 | Political science - 1848 - 476 pages
...trans.) " 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 In this respect, equity is synonymous with justice ; in that, to the true and »nind interpretation of the... | |
 | GEORGE RIPLEY - 1852 - 670 pages
...view, Blackstone observes: — " Equity, in its true and general meaning, is the soul and spirit of all law ; positive law is construed, and rational law...the operation of the literal text of the law, and supplied its defects, by reasonable construction, and by rules of proceeding and deciding, which are... | |
 | Economics - 1853 - 448 pages
...trans.) " Equity," says Blackstone, " in its true and genuine meaning, is the soul and spirk of all law ; positive law is construed and rational law is made by it. In this respect, equity is synonymous with justice ; in that, to the true and snmd interpretation of the rule."... | |
 | William Blackstone, Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot - Law - 1853 - 392 pages
...contradistinguished from that of Law. 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 the one, equity is synonymous with justice ; in the other, with the true sense and sound interpretation... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1854 - 672 pages
...and general meaning, is the soul and spirit of all law ; Eositive law is construed, and rational iw is made by it. In this, equity is synonymous with...the operation of the literal text of the law, and supplied its defects, by reasonable construction, and by rules of proceeding and deciding, which are... | |
 | Isaac Edwards - Bailments - 1855 - 708 pages
...great ' In its true *nd genuine meaning, equity is the lou] and ipirit of fill laws. /'•--.- 1 1 r law is construed, and rational law is made by it : in this, equity ia synoymoo* with justice ; in that, with the true sense and sound interpretation of the rule. 3 Black.... | |
 | John Bate (mechanician.) - 1857 - 118 pages
...conscience. " — SELDEN'S Table Talh. 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. Jury. Pausanias relates, that at the trial of Mars, for murder, in the court denominated Areopngus... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 780 pages
...a loss for materials. 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... | |
 | Michael Thompson - Law - 1863 - 472 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 in. Com.,... | |
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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. 
