Iniquity
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In Scotch practice. A technical expression applied to the decision of an inferior judge who has decided contrary te law; he is said to have committed iniquity. Bell. Iniguum est alios permittere, alios inhibere mercaturam. It is inequitable to permit some to trade and to prohibit others.
3 Inst. 181.
Iniquum est aliquem rei sui esse judicem
It is wrong for a man to bea judge in his own cause.
Branch, Prine.; 12 Coke, 118.
Iniquum est ingenuis hominibus non esse liberam rerum suarum alienationem, It is unjust that freemen should not have the tree disposal of their own property.
Co. Litt. 223a; Hob. 87; 4 Kent, Comm, 131.