 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 as the remedy in equity.  The Northwestern Reporter - Page 2711898Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1830 - 584 pages
...that there is a remedy at law : it must be plain and adequate, or in other words, as practical and as efficient to the ends of justice and its prompt administration, as the remedy in equity. [215] It cannot be doubted that reducing an agreement to writing is in most cases an argument against... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court, George Noble Stewart, Benjamin Faneuil Porter - 1836 - 526 pages
...there is a remedy at law ; it must be plain and adequate, or, in. other words, as practical and as efficient, to the ends of justice, and 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 - 1850 - 660 pages
...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 in Equity. [3.J Where a creditor receives a deed to a tract of land, as collateral security, for the payment of... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1850 - 688 pages
...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
...in equity becomes questionable. — Bank of Kentucky v. Schuylkill tiank, 219. It is not, however, enough that there is a remedy at law ; it must be...its prompt administration, as the remedy in equity. — Ib. 220. Where the remedy at law would necessarily lead to the multiplication of suits and the... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - 1854 - 674 pages
...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...justice and its prompt administration, as the remedy in equity.4 § 22. The purpose of the statute, therefore, is, to leave the concurrent jurisdiction of... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 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...its prompt administration as the remedy in equity." (Boyce's ExAr ». Grundy, 8 Pet., 215.) In this case, although the bill may not, yet the whole record... | |
 | Richard Peters - 1860 - 836 pages
...Bill ¡n Cliiincery. at ÏAV; it must be plain and adequate, or, in other wcrds, as practical and as efficient to the ends of justice and its prompt administration, as the remedy in equity. Ibid. 551. After an arbitrament and award, an action was instituted at law upon the award, and the... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1919 - 716 pages
...defendant would not amount to the cost of procuring it. As was said in Watson v. Sutherland, supra: "It is not enough that there is a remedy at law. It...its prompt administration as the remedy in equity." The bill stated grounds for equitable relief. Appellant's second contention is that complainant Duncan... | |
 | Michael Thompson - 1863 - 472 pages
...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...its prompt administration as the remedy in equity. 3 Pet., 210; 4 Wh., 108; 9 H'A., 841-2; 4 WCC, 205. So it is no objection to the jurisdiction that... | |
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