Sentence examples for equity courts from inspiring English sources

The equitable servitude is an invention of the English equity courts in the 19th century.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, however, the English equity courts intervened on the side of the mortgagor.

Toward the end of the 14th century, however, the equity courts began to issue decrees for its enforcement.

The conceptual division of the two types of ownership, however, survived the merger of the law and equity courts that occurred in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Whereas common-law courts had considered B to be the full owner, equity courts viewed him as merely the nominal owner and considered C the true, or "equitable," owner and rendered judgments on that basis.

This led to his appointment as preacher at Rolls Chapel, the chapel associated with the London equity courts, where he served until 1726.

Then they sold the house to an accomplice — or straw buyer — and refinanced it, taking $570,000 in equity, court papers say.

JR A certain type of barrister will always model himself on the tenant of 3 Equity Court, who refused to prosecute as a matter of principle.

"The state will not continue sending the city money for class-size reduction if the city continues to defy the terms and intent of the 14-year-old Campaign for Fiscal Equity court case," she said in a statement.

"It has an air of unreality that the Legislature today is passing a school aid budget as if the Campaign for Fiscal Equity court case never existed," said Regina Eaton, the executive director of the Alliance for Quality Education, which has been lobbying for more aid.

His father served as a Judge of the Court of Chancery, an equity court, and the Bedford County Court.