legal equity
Courts' remedial discretion
Legal equity is a body of law developed alongside common law to provide remedies when strict legal rules produced unjust outcomes.
Where courts of law awarded only monetary damages, courts of equity could order specific actions: injunctions, specific performance of contracts, or the establishment of trusts.
Modern legal systems have largely merged law and equity, but the distinction persists in certain doctrines and remedies.
The court applied principles of equity to prevent the unjust enrichment.
- restitutionRestoring what was lost
- subrogationSuccessor assumes claim rights
- Lord ChancellorChief British judicial officer
- injunctionCourt-ordered behavioral requirement
- clean handsFreedom from wrongdoing
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