Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Sources of Law
- Statute Law
- Made by Parliament
- Common Law
- Evolved Law - Administered by the courts
- Judge made (common) law
- Equity was too Ridgid
- Laches Defeats Equity
- application
must not be
delayed
- He who comes to Equity
must come with clean hand
- Litigants
cannot rely
on equity if
they are
involved in
fraud
- Cannot be defended on
procedural formality
- Looks a the
intent rather
than the form
- The Law of Equity
- 13th Centrey
- only remedy
of damages
(money)
- Based on fairness and natural justice
- lord Chancellor operates in the Court of
Chancery
- Rules became known as
maxims of equity
- Conflict = Equity prevails over Common law
- Used to describe non codified (written) basis
- English legal system
- As appose to Civil Law - based on Roman system -
- Based on Roman System
- Used in europe
- European Union
- have become important as we are part of the EU