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Equitable maxim

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 35 U.S. 521 - Thomas Stanley v. John Gadsby · 1836Most cited · 6 citing opinions

relief from usury

he who seeks the aid of equity, to be relieved from usury, must do equity by paying the principal and legal interest upon the money borrowed.

How often courts cite the case defining “Equitable maxim”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Equitable maxim” — 6 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.