General Knowledge

Question 1

What are the 12 principled equitable remedies?

Answer 1

1. injunction
2. specific performance
3. account of profits
4. rescission
5. rectification
6. equitable estoppel
7. certain proprietary remedies, such as constructive trusts[6]
8. subrogation
9. in very specific circumstances, an equitable lien.[7]
10. equitable compensation
11. appointment or removal of fiduciary
12. interpleader

Question 2

What are the two main equitable remedies?

Answer 2

1. injunction
2. specific performance

Question 3

• Lord Ellesmere LC: “the cause why there is a Chancery is, for men’s actions are so divers an infinite. It would be impossible to make any general law which may aptly meet with every act and fail in some circumstances.”

Comes from which case?

Answer 3

The Earl of Oxford’s Case (1615) Mich 13 Jac 1; 21 ER 485