The Courts of Equity During the Past Few Years

law. It did not try to enforce the law of nature. Under the formulae of trespass on the case and special assumpsit, the courts of law, if they so desired, could have assumed all of the jurisdiction which the courts of equity later exercised. Right was right and wrong was wrong, both in a court of law and in a court of equity. The same criteria of right and wrong existed; the only difference lay in the remedy. It has always been open to the courts of law to expand their jurisdiction, and although nisi prius judges are subject to control by the supreme courts and the supreme courts at times have insisted upon confining them within the narrow limits of the ancient for

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