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15 Postscript Supplement
15 §.3 Suits in pendency
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Misproceeding
say sanctioned by
precedent
Sanctioned not only by expediency and thence the greatest
happiness — by utility — by to use the favourite Statutable Act of Parliament
term expediency is the course here proposed, but even by
precedent: by precedent operating upon the largest scale
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Original principle
of Equity Courts the
regnum et bonum
meant the non-disappointment
principle or was
mere nonsense
Courts called Equity Courts — what was the rule
for what was the principle by which when the object
of reform what the standard what the direction post
declared professed to be looked to? Answer. the aequsis
et bonum. 1 Now by aequsis what is expressed? Just
nothing. By bonum what is expressed? About as much.
With the So much for expression. Now for meaning. If
any thing Ask whether any thing was meant: and
if any answer at all be given, one of two things it will
be and amount to and be — the non disappointment principle,
or nonsense a mass of nonsense.
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This one of the few
instance in which the
principle of recurrence
to original practice
is consistent with the
greater happiness
principle.
In this may be seen one of the few instances in which
re the principles every now and then brought to view — the
principle of recurrence to original practice is consistent
with and the greatest happiness principle.
by W From Equity Common Law received
to be corrected: received in parts in correction of which it
was so much in need.
Now Equity has been reigns in action so long
that she has contracted the view of Common Law: she
has become a Second Common Law.
She herself stands in need of the correction
rods. Such correction she must experience —call it correction
or call it any thing else Equity of the second order or quarter
Near Equity — Equity the second ☞ Analogous state of things from Geology
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