Maxims of Equity in UK Law
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John McGhee (ed), Snell's Equity, and Lynton Tucker, Nicholas Le Poidevin, and James Brightwell, Lewin on Trusts
......Snell retains the organisational scheme of previous editions, dividing into seven sections: equity and equities; maxims and doctrines; equitable protection; equitable remedies; trusts; administration of assets; and securities. The new edition retains the same authors, ......
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Recent Periodical Literature*
...... 30-51. A. D. HAaonEAvEs : “ Equity and the Latin side of Chancery,” 68 L.Q.R. 481-99. H. . OLECK : “ Maxims of Equity Reappraised,” 6 Rutgers L.Rev. 528-49. H. W. R. ......
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Of Licences, and Similar Mysteries
...... It seems clear that proprietary estoppels work in equity and that they are capable of binding third parties, The ... . . must then bring into play all the relevant maxims of equity.” 2 Apart from suggesting the “shield not a ......
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A NOTE ON PRINCIPLES
...... as the canons of statutory inter- pretation and the maxims of equity. T,hey differ from rules in their mode of ......
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Taking a Witch's Brew and Making a Consommé Lord Neuberger's Dissent in Stack v Dowden [2007] UKHL 17, [2007] 2 AC 432
...... Legal Studies 221, at p 222. . . 214 Part III – Equity and Property Law . 12.1 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND . English law ... After conveyance into joint names, and the application of the twin maxims of equity follows the law and equality is equity , where the only other ......
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REVIEWS
Book reviewed in this article: Principles of Sentencing. By D. A. Thomas Principles of Scottish Private Law. By David M. Walker Industrial Law in Scotland. By Isaac P. Miller Jurisprudence. By R. W......... Equity can scarcely lie described as a formal source of Scots ... Instead of listing the various maxims of equity (as is usually done in books on the ......
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‘An academic ombudsman’
The paper focuses on the tensions between the subjective discretionary decision making of an ombudsman and the objective non‐discretionary decision making favoured by judges, especially on appeal o.........Will the Financial Services Ombudsman Scheme revive a newer equity or will consis-tency be regarded as something better than jus-tice in the ... one of discretion and moral judgement in which the medieval Maxims of Equity are a useful guide." These Maxims (see paragraph 1.5) are the ......
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REVIEWS
Book reviewed in this article: Industrial Insurance: An Historical and Critical Study. By Sir Arnold Wilson, M.P., and Professor Hermann Levy. Crime and the Community. By Leo Page. London, Faber an......... For, while the tradition of English Equity (as the Master of the Rolls has lately reminded us) runs to ... lease for less than a year.” Chapter IV deals with the Maxims of Equity, of which Professor Keeton thinks thirteen are ......
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Reviews
Changing Concepts of Crime and its Treatment. Edited and introduced by Hugh J. Klare Some Problems of the Constitution. By Geoffrey Marshall and G. C. Moodie. Fourth Edition. Equity and the Law of ......... 1,. A. SHEllILl~\N. EQUITY AND THE LAW OF TRUSTS. By PIIILLIP H. PETTIT. SninxNiw and ... Many will be delighted to note the omission of the maxims of equity; for too long they have bored the bright and ......
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A Subaltern Theory of Equity
......It therefore evolved for itself a framework guided by a set of fundamental principles called the ‘maxims of equity’, a collection of vague, lofty, almost religious-sounding, ethical statements (aphorisms). There is no consensus on the number of these ......
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