Section 12 Equity Will Not Suffer a Wrong to Be Without a Remedy (Where There Is a Right, There Is a Remedy)

• Library: Remedies 2006

The wrong that Equity will not suffer to be without a remedy must be a civil injury to the plaintiff’s right or interests, legal or equitable. There are some duties Equity does not attempt judicially to enforce, such as charity, gratitude and kindness; and some wrongs with which Equity does not interfere, such as violations of honor, or of truth, or of morals, involving no question of property, and no question of pecuniary liability; but any wrong done to a legal or equitable right will be redressed in Equity . . . .

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