Equity: A Course of Lectures¶
Maitland, F. W. (1909). Equity: A Course of Lectures. Cambridge University Press.
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- The English Court of Chancery (12 century onward) developed equity as an explicit corrective to common-law rigidity, a history Maitland (1909) traces in his canonical lectures on the institutional rise and doctrinal substance of English equity.
This sourceCanonical historical-doctrinal account of English equity: traces the Court of Chancery's development of trusts, the modern trust, constructive trusts, specific performance, estoppel, and injunction from ad-hoc conscience to systematized doctrine.
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Maitland traces Chancery's rise from petitions to the king's Chancellor, but treats equity as supplementary law and not as a corrective to common-law rigour; dates it from the 13th-14th century, not the 12th.
“there were many frauds which the stiff old procedure of the courts of law could not adequately meet”
- The English Court of Chancery (12 century onward) developed equity as an explicit corrective to common-law rigidity, a history Maitland (1909) traces in his canonical lectures on the institutional rise and doctrinal substance of English equity.
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