 | Joseph Story - Equity - 1839 - 658 pages
...universally true in neither sense; or rather, it is not of universal application. 2 Where a rule, either of the Common or the Statute Law, is direct, and governs...Law, and can as little justify a departure from it. 3 If the law commands or prohibits a thing to be done, Equity cannot enjoin the contrary, or dispense... | |
 | Samuel Warren - Law - 1845 - 1174 pages
...recognise, and are bound by the Statute and Common Law. Where a rule of either the Statute, or Common Law, is direct, and governs the case, with all its...Law, and can as little justify a departure from it. If the law commands or prohibits a thing to be done, equity cannot enjoin the contrary, or dispense... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Chancery, Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - Equity - 1848 - 726 pages
...hath declared an instrument to be void. (Idem, p. 54, note.) Where a rule, either of the common or statute law, is direct, and governs the case with all its circumstances on the particular point, a court of equity is as much bound by it as a court of law, and can as little... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery, Sir Steuart Macnaghten - Equity - 1850 - 286 pages
...to whether there could be an order upon her representatives to revive within a limited time; Canham v. Vincent, 8 Sim. 277; Chowich v. Dimes, 3 Beav....departure from it:" 1 Story, Eq. Jur. 57; see Kemp v. Pryor, 7 Ves. 250, 251. On precisely similar grounds, a bill seeking to have a bond established against... | |
 | Joseph Story - Equity - 1853 - 890 pages
...universally true in neither sense ; or, rather, it is not of universal application.1 Where a rule, either of the Common or the Statute Law, is direct, and governs...of Law, and can as little justify a departure from it.2 If the law commands, or prohibits a thing to be done, Equity cannot enjoin the contrary, or dispense... | |
 | Joseph Story - Equity - 1866 - 860 pages
...universally true in neither sense ; or rather, it is not of universal application.3 Where a rule, either of the common or the statute law, is direct, and governs...law, and can as little justify a departure from it.* If the law commands, or prohibits a thing to bo done, equity cannot enjoin the contrary, or dispense... | |
 | Law - 1897 - 1116 pages
...of equity that '-where a rule, either of statute or common liw. is direct, and governs the case in all its circumstances or the particular point, a court...of equity is as much bound by it as a court of law, snd can as little depart from it." 1 Story, Eq. Jur. ยง 64. Applying here, then, the conceded common-law... | |
 | Sir Thomas Wardlaw Taylor - Equity - 1875 - 640 pages
...sense, is it universally true, or rather it is not of universal application^). Where a rule, either of the common or the statute law, is direct, and governs...court of equity is as much bound by it, as a court of law(e). If the law commands, or prohibits a thing to be done equity cannot enjoin the contrary, or... | |
 | Joseph Story - Equity - 1877 - 936 pages
...universally true in neither sense; or rather, it is not of universal application.2 Where a rule, either of the common or the statute law, is direct, and governs...of law, and can as little justify a departure from it.3 If the law commands, or prohibits a thing to be done, equity cannot enjoin the contrary, or dispense... | |
 | William J. Henry, William Logan Harris - Ecclesiastical law - 1879 - 534 pages
...in cases of an equitable nature, the analogies furnished by rules of law; thus where a rule, either of the common or the statute law is direct, and governs the case with all its particular circumstances, a court of equity is as much bound by a statute of limitation as a court... | |
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Where a rule, either of the Common or the Statute Law, is direct, and governs the case, with all its circumstances, or the particular point, a Court of Equity is as much bound by it as a Court of Law, and can as little justify a departure from it. 
