 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1830 - 584 pages
...money stipulated to be paid by the contract. Ibid. 210. 12. It is not enough that there is a emedy at law : it must be plain and adequate, or in other words, asopractical and as efficient to the ends of justice and its prompt administration, as thc'rcmedy in... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court, George Noble Stewart, Benjamin Faneuil Porter - Law reports, digests, etc - 1836 - 526 pages
...of the court, is latitudinous, respecting the jurisdiction of Chancery. He says: " To oust Chancery, it is not enough that there is a remedy at law ; it...its prompt administration, as the remedy in equity." The facts of the case, in which this language was used, appear sufficiently to shew the application... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1850 - 660 pages
...at Law to make such a plea a good bar to a proceeding in Chancery — it must be shown that it was as practical and as efficient to the ends of justice,...its prompt administration, as the remedy in Equity. Besides, frauds and trusts are peculiarly within the jurisdiction of the Chancery Courts. 1 Mad. Ch.... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1850 - 688 pages
...the matter alleged in the bill might have been set up by way of defence, but that it would have been as practical and as efficient to the ends of justice, and its prompt administration, as the remedy iu Equity. „ [ .;. ] Where a creditor receives a deed to a tract of land, aa collateral security,... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Court of Common Pleas (Philadelphia County) - 1853 - 612 pages
...plain, complete, and adequate remedy at law, equitable jurisdiction must fail. It is not, however, enough that there is a remedy at law ; it must be plain and adequate, as practical and efficient to the ends of justice and its prompt administration, as the remedy in equity.... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional law - 1854 - 674 pages
...declaratory, and that it makes no alteration whatever in the rules of equity on the subject of legal remedy. It is not enough that there is a remedy at law ; it must bo plain and adequate, or, in other words, as practical and efficient to the ends of justice and its... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1857 - 688 pages
...declaratory, making no alteration whatever in the rules of equity on the subject of leg^al remedy. It is not enough that there is a remedy at law ; it...and adequate, or, in other words, as practical and efficient to the ends of justice and its prompt administration as the remedy in equity." (Boyce's ExAr... | |
 | Michael Thompson - Law - 1863 - 472 pages
...cannot be sustained in equity. £ald.,39t; Pet. CC, 350; 2 Brock., 510; 2 W. $ It., 23. But it is noi enough that there is a remedy at law; it must be plain and adequate, or, in other wnrds, as practical and efficient to the ends of justice and its prompt administration as the remedy... | |
 | Frederick Charles Brightly - Law - 1865 - 1152 pages
...IVt. C. (~. :!'.«. t.Initod Slates r. Myers, 2 Brock. 51(1. I'ierpout e. Fowle, 2 W. A M. 23. But iu other words, as pntctii'il and cfttcient to the ends of justice and its prompt ndmioistrntion. as... | |
 | Asa Kinne - Law - 1865 - 340 pages
...the court did relieve against a judgment, the Judge, in delivering the opinion of the court, says : It is not enough that there is a remedy at law, it must be plain and adequate, in other words as practical and as efficient to the ends of justice and its prompt administration,... | |
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If the remedy at law . is sufficient, equity cannot give relief, "but it is not enough that * there is a remedy at law; it must be plain and adequate, or. in other words, as practical and efficient to the ends of justice, and its prompt administration,... 
