he who seeks equity must do equity
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 294 U.S. 442 - Manufacturers' Finance Co. v. McKey · 1935Most cited · 225 citing opinions
presupposes that equitable, as distinguished from legal, rights, substantive or remedial, have arisen from the subject-matter in favor of each of the parties; and it requires that such rights shall not be enforced in favor of one who affirmatively seeks their enforcement except upon condition that he consent to accord to the other his correlative equitable rights
How often courts cite the case defining “he who seeks equity must do equity”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “he who seeks equity must do equity” — 225 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.