“He who seeks equity must do equity.”
Equity Jurisprudence, 1st ed. (1836), § 59.
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“We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights.”
Cooper v. Griffin (1892), 61 L. J. Rep. Q. B. 566.
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“Equity will go no further than the law.”
Tooke v. Hollingworth (1793), 5 T. R. 225.
Anonymous (1699), 3 Salk. 213.
“A Court of equity knows its own province.”
Mayor, &c. of Southampton v. Graves (1800), 8 T. R. 592.
“Equity has not relieved against gross improvidence.”
Duke of Beaufort v. Neeld (1845), 12 CI. & F. 260.
On Nature, as quoted by Friedrich Ueberweg, History of Philosophy, from Thales to the Present Time (1885) Vol. 1, p. 35. https://books.google.com/books?id=BW5YAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA35
“I think that common law is better than equity.”
Angus v. Clifford (1891), L. J. Rep. (N. S.) 60 C. D. 455.