Cases Quote by Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

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

I should be extremely sorry to find that in a fictitious proceeding, instituted for the more easy attaining of justice, different rules were to…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error…

— Benjamin Robbins Curtis

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

— Christina Stead

It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted, of themselves…

— Aristotle

The Courts must declare the sense of the law; and if they should be disposed to exercise will instead of judgement; the consequences would…

— Alexander Hamilton

Everybody is presumed to know the law except His Majesty's judges, who have a Court of Appeal set over them to put them right.

— William Henry Maule

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

— Frederick Pollock

The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court.

— Michel Foucault

When courts rule in our country, we have them as the final arbiter on matters in which we might not agree on. And that…

— Cyril Ramaphosa