Court of equity

Court of equity
See also: Court of Chancery

A chancery court, equity court or court of equity is a court that is authorized to apply principles of equity, as opposed to law, to cases brought before it.

These courts began with petitions to the Lord Chancellor of England. Equity courts "handled lawsuits and petitions requesting remedies other than damages, such as writs, injunctions, and specific performance." Most were eventually "merged with courts of law."[1]

United States bankruptcy courts are the one example of federal courts which operate as courts of equity.[1] Some common law jurisdictions--such as the U.S. states of Delaware, Mississippi, New Jersey, South Carolina, and Tennessee--preserve the distinctions between law and equity and between courts of law and courts of equity.

References

  1. ^ a b Legal Dictionary.com

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  • Court of Equity — A court which has jurisdiction in equity, which administers justice and decides controversies in accordance with the rules, principles, and precedents of equity, and which follows the forms and procedure of chancery; as distinguished from a court …   Black's law dictionary

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  • court — / kōrt/ n [Old French, enclosed space, royal entourage, court of justice, from Latin cohort cohors farmyard, armed force, retinue] 1 a: an official assembly for the administration of justice: a unit of the judicial branch of government the… …   Law dictionary

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