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Equitable defenses are usually affirmative defenses asking the court to excuse an act because the party bringing the cause of action has acted in some inequitable way. Traditionally equitable defenses were only available at the Court of Equity and not available at common law.
Equitable remedies are distinguished from "legal" remedies (which are available to a successful claimant as of right) by the discretion of the court to grant them. In common law jurisdictions, there are a variety of equitable remedies, but the principal remedies are: injunction [5] [6] specific performance; account of profits; rescission ...
Maxims of equity are legal maxims that serve as a set of general principles or rules which are said to govern the way in which equity operates. They tend to illustrate the qualities of equity, in contrast to the common law, as a more flexible, responsive approach to the needs of the individual, inclined to take into account the parties' conduct and worthiness.
It is an unreasonable delay that can be viewed as prejudicing the opposing party. When asserted in litigation, it is an equity defense, that is, a defense to a claim for an equitable remedy. It is often understood in comparison to a statute of limitations, a statutory defense, which traditionally is a defense to a claim "at law".
Following the British codification of the law in India, equitable principles were embedded in the judicial frameworks of the courts. [56] The courts have relied on equity "as a source of law to devise a new principle in a situation where the statute or codified law had no answer to a given situation". [57]
Equitable defenses (1 C, 22 P) E. Estoppel (19 P) T. English trusts law (1 C, 33 P) Pages in category "Equity (law)" The following 75 pages are in this category, out ...
The relief of Specific Performance is an equitable relief which is usually remedial or protective in nature. In civil law (the law of continental Europe and much of the non English speaking world), specific performance is considered to be the basic right. Money damages are a kind of "substitute specific performance."
In an affirmative defense, the defendant may concede that they committed the alleged acts, but they prove other facts which, under the law, either justify or excuse their otherwise wrongful actions, or otherwise overcomes the plaintiff's claim. In criminal law, an affirmative defense is sometimes called a justification or excuse defense. [4]