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LAW 433 Equity

400 levelLaw10 topics

LAW 433 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Nature, doctrine and history of equity
  2. Development of equity in England and its introduction to Nigeria
  3. Relationship between equity and common law
  4. Conflict between equity and customary law
  5. Maxims of equity
  6. Nature of equitable rights and interests
  7. Priorities and assignment of choses in action
  8. Doctrines of conversion, election and satisfaction
  9. Equitable remedies: injunctions, specific performance, rescission and rectification
  10. Equitable defences: estoppel, laches and acquiescence

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Nature, doctrine and history of equity

This topic introduces equity as the body of legal principles developed to supplement, correct, and restrain the rigidity of the common law. For examination purposes, you must understand what equity is, why it emerged, how it developed historically, and the basic doctrines that explain its relationship with common law and modern judicial administration.

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