 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 678 pages
...the vice-chancellor. So, in England, Sir John Leach, VC, in Naylor v. Winck, 1 8. & S. £55, said : " If a party, acting in ignorance of a plain and settled principle of law, is induced to give up a portion of his indisputable property to another under the name of compromise, a court of equity will... | |
 | William Burge - Comparative law - 1838 - 904 pages
...to be bound, unless they act with full knowledge of all the doubts and difficultiesthat arise, (a) If a party acting in ignorance of a plain and settled principle of law, is induced to give up a portion of his indisputable property to another, under the name of compromise, a court of equity will... | |
 | Joseph Story - Equity - 1839 - 658 pages
...See also Corking ;•. Pratt, 1 Ves. 400. § 121. It has been laid down as unquestionable doctrine, that if a party, acting in ignorance of a plain and...settled principle of law, is induced to give up a portion of his indisputable property to another, under the name of a compromise, a Court of Equity... | |
 | William Burge - Bail - 1847 - 626 pages
...to be bound, unless they act with full knowledge of all the doubts and difficulties that arise (w). If a party acting in ignorance of a plain and settled principle of law, is induced to give up a portion of his indisputable property, to another under the name of compromise, a Court of Equity will... | |
 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1852 - 616 pages
...°^ 8urP"se which equity regards as a *just foundation for relief. It is, indeed laid down broadly that, if a party, acting in ignorance of a plain and...settled principle of law, is induced to give up a portion of his property to another, under the name of a compromise, a court of equity will grant relief;... | |
 | John Adams - Equity - 1852 - 816 pages
...restriction of the maxim to criminal cases is not recognised by modern decisions, (a) It is said, top, that if a party acting in ignorance of a plain and settled principle of law is induced to give up a portion of his undisputable property to another, under the name of a compromise, he shall be relieved... | |
 | Asa Kinne - Courts - 1853 - 538 pages
...ignorant of his rights will be set aside by a court of equity. — Jidtr son v. Bacon, 1 Marsh, 51. If a party acting in ignorance of a plain and settled principle of law, is induced to give up a portion of his indisputable property to another, under the name of a compromise, a court of equity... | |
 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1854 - 622 pages
...which equity regards as a *just foundation for relief. It is, indeed, laid down broadly that, if » party, acting in ignorance of a plain and settled principle of law, is induced to give up a portion of his property to another, under the name of a compromise, a court of equity will grant relief;... | |
 | Joseph Story - Equity - 1866 - 860 pages
...adds, " which [surprise] it seems is a term § 121. It has been laid down, as unquestionable doctrine, that if a party, acting in ignorance of a plain and...settled principle of law, is induced to give up a portion of his indisputable property to another, under -the name of a compromise, a court of equity... | |
 | Law - 1870 - 1012 pages
...(Story Eq. Jur. 9th ed. pp. 101, 162). It has, however, been laid down as unquestionable doc trine that if a party, acting in ignorance of a plain and...settled principle of law, is induced to give up a portion of his property to another, under the name of a compromise, a court of equity will relieve... | |
| |
If a party, acting in ignorance of a plain and settled principle of law, is induced to give up a portion of his indisputable property to another under the name of compromise, a court of equity will relieve him from the effect of his mistake. 
