Equity refuses both annulment and specific performance
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 36 U.S. 229 - Jackson v. Ashton · 1837Most cited · 21 citing opinions
A court of chancery will often refuse to enforce a contract, when it would also refuse to annul it; in such a case, the parties are left to their remedy at law.
How often courts cite the case defining “Equity refuses both annulment and specific performance”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Equity refuses both annulment and specific performance” — 21 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.