 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,...  Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of ... - Page 4by Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Frank A. Turner, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Bellinger, Charles Byron - 1916Full 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
...at law. It is, not, however, enough, that there is a remedy at law ; it must be plain and adequate, or in other words, as practical and efficient to the...its prompt administration as the remedy in equity : Boyce v. Grundy, 3 Peters, 215; New London Bank v. Lee, 11 Conn. Rep. 112. Where the remedy at law... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - 1854 - 674 pages
...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...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
...subject of leg^al remedy. 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Asa Kinne - 1865 - 340 pages
...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, as the remedy in equity. He says, also : " Although the defence might have been made at \+w, the complainant would still have... | |
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