Status

Standing: state, condition, situation. Compare Estate. A corporation has no status as a citizen outside of the jurisdiction where it was created. Statu quo or in statu quo. In the condition in which — a person or thing was; upon the original footing. A court in equity is reluctant to rescind a contract unless the parties can be put back in statu quo, that 1 Baldwin v. Grand Trunk E. Co., Sup. Ct. N. H. (1888). s State V. New Haven & Northampton E. Co., 37 ' Cofin. 163 (1870); Same v. Same, 41 id.

134 (1874). 3 County of Knoxu Arms, 22 111. 179 (1859); contra^ Commissioners v. Koons, 1 Col. 160 (1869).

See also Commissioners' Court v. Goldthwaite, 35 Ala. 704 (1860). is, can be remitted to the position they occupied before the transaction complained of. Where a thing should not have been done, the parties are to be placed, as far as possible, in the situation in which they would have stood if there had been no such transaction. ^ See Compensation; Damages; Laches; Reform; Ebscission.