Compensation
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
chancery practice, is the performance of that which a court of chancery order to be done on relieving a party who has broken a condition, which is to place the opposite party in no worse situation than if the condition had not been broken. Courts of equity will not relieve from the consequences of a broken condition unless compensation can be made to the oppo-