 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, as...  Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of ... - Page 22by 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 - 1921Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 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... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (4th Circuit), John Marshall - Law reports, digests, etc - 1837 - 602 pages
...Peters, 210, (Boyce's Executors v. Grundy) that to prevent resort to equity, the remedy at law must be as practical and efficient to the ends of justice,...its prompt administration, as the remedy in equity. The principle, which we are now considering, applies to those cases in which, ordinarily, the only... | |
 | 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 - Constitutional law - 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 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... | |
 | Frederick Charles Brightly - 1858 - 1208 pages
...Fowls. 2 W. 4 M. 23. But it Is not enough that there la 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 Executors t. Grundy, 3 Pet 210. United States v. llowland, 4 Wh. 108. Bean ,-. Smith, 2 Has.... | |
 | Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 792 pages
...that there is a remedy at law ; it must be plain and adequate, or, in othet words, as practical and as efficient to the ends of justice and its prompt administration, as the remedy in equity. Ibid. 215. 59. The courts of the United States have jurisdiction over all prizes made in ports, as... | |
 | Michael Thompson - Law - 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 - Law - 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... | |
 | Law - 1868 - 894 pages
...that there is 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 question, then, arises whether the bill before us, on the general principles of equity jurisprudence,... | |
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