he who seeks equity must do equity
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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