mass communication law

[jadedjordan]

midterm tomorrow morning.
can someone please explain to me the law of equity? this is what my notes say:

4. Law of Equity: Allows courts to take actions that are fair or just

a. Began as an alternative to the Common Law in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
i. Claimants went to the King if the court rendered verdicts they felt were unjust.

Comments

[paperquilt]

I think it's basically when a judge issues an injunction. The judge is making up his/her own law for a specific case. We still sort of do this, like if someone is stalking you and you get an injunction for a restraining order that's equity law. Equity law is meant to protect innocent people, like the ones that get stalked. It's also meant to make things fair when the law couldn't really make it fair normally because obviously there's not law stating that so-and-so has to stay x feet away from you.

Our remnants are things like this restraining order. There are other injunctions other than restraining orders but apparently that's all I can think about right now.

Equity maxims are guidelines for judges issuing equity law. They say only help the people that are totes innocent and avoid forfeiture (which is the confiscation by the State of assets which are either the proceeds of crime or the instrumentalities of crime.)

[essius]

OH SO BORING. Of course, many would say the same of philosophy and semiotics, so I'm not really one to talk. :)