Section 5 Inability to Prevent a Wrong

• Library: Remedies 2006

Common-law courts could only wait until harm was done and then redress the wrong. George L. Clark, Equity-Missouri Edition § 5 (1920).

During this time, the chancellor began exercising the extraordinary jurisdiction of “grace,” by delegation from the King or the King’s select council, in his sole discretion. This use grew rapidly, to the point that in the reign of Edward III, from 1327 to 1377 A.D., all matters of grace were publicly referred to the chancellor and a system of chancery courts were...