Getting Into Equity

38 Pages Posted: 2 Nov 2021

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Samuel L. Bray

Notre Dame Law School

Paul B. Miller

Notre Dame Law School

Date Written: October 29, 2021

Abstract

For two centuries, common lawyers have talked about a "cause of action." But "cause of action" is not an organizing principle for equity. This Article shows how a plaintiff gets into equity, and it explains that equity is shaped by the interplay of its remedial, procedural, and substantive law. Equity is adjectival, that is, it modifies law rather than the other way around. Its power comes from remedies, not rights. And for getting into equity, what is central is a grievance. To insist on an equitable cause of action is to work a fundamental change in how a plaintiff gets into equity.

Keywords: equity, remedies

Suggested Citation

Bray, Samuel L. and Miller, Paul B., Getting Into Equity (October 29, 2021). 97 Notre Dame Law Review 1763 (2022), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3952682

Samuel L. Bray (Contact Author)

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Paul B. Miller

Notre Dame Law School ( email )

P.O. Box 780
Notre Dame, IN 46556-0780
United States

HOME PAGE: http://law.nd.edu/directory/paul-miller/

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