Court Quote by Frederick Romilly

We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse.

— Frederick Pollock

Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.

— Aristotle

A Court of equity can mould interests differently from a Court of law; and can give relief in cases where a Court of law…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.

— Christina Stead

The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color…

— Jack Cade

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other right.

— Abraham Lincoln

In the past there has been debate as to whether or not traditional rights such as that to trial by jury might be protected…

— Dominic Grieve

There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them.

— Eleanor Smeal

What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.

— Harry A. Blackmun

The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.

— James A. Garfield