Law

The rule and bond of men's actioner a rule for the well governing of civil society, to give every man which both belong to him; a rule of action to which men are obliged to make their moral conduct confortable, Law is sometimes used as opposed to Equity, meaning the principles followed in common Law Courts in contradiction to those which were administered only in Courts of Equity.

Law of equity - The distinction between Law and Equity is one which has existed in many systems of jurisprudence, notably in the Roman and the English systems; and distinction invariably comes to be abolished (more or less) in course of time, the principles of Equity coming to prevail over without destroying the principles of law, until by positive legislation there is effected a complete fusion between the two sets of principles. Justinian effected this fusion for Roman Law, and Queen Victoria by her two Lords Chancellors (Selborne and Cairns) has effected it for English Law- Brown.