Decree in equity
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 57 U.S. 65 - Josias Pennington v. Lyman Gibson · 1853Most cited · 91 citing opinions
binding force equal to judgment at law
We hold no doctrine to be better settled than this, that whenever the parties to a suit and the subject in controversy between them are within the regular jurisdiction of a court of equity, the decree of that court solemnly and finally pronounced, is to every intent as binding as would be the judgment of a court of law, upon parties and their interests regularly within its cognizance.
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