Irit Samet

Equity (eBook, ePUB)

Conscience Goes to Market

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Produktbeschreibung

This book sets out to defend the claim that Equity ought to remain a separate body of law; the temptation to iron-out the differences between neighbouring doctrines on the two sides of the Equity/Common Law divide should, in most cases, be resisted. The theoretical part of the book is argues that the characteristics of Equity, namely, appeal to conscience, flexibility, retroactivity and the use of morally-freighted jargon, are essential for the implementation of a legal ideal that has been neglected by the Common Law: âAccountability Correspondenceâ. According to this fundamental legal ideal, liability imposed by legal rules should correspond to the pattern of moral duty in the circumstances to which the rules apply. Equity promotes this ideal in the fields of property and obligations by disallowing parties to exploit the rule-like nature of Common Law norms in a way that breaches their moral duty to the other party. By reference to various equitable doctrines, it is argued that the faults identified by critics of Equity, especially from the perspective of the Rule of Law, are highly exaggerated, and that the criticism often reflects a political belief in the supremacy of individualism and free market over empathy and social justice. The theoretical part is followed by three chapters, each dedicated to an in-depth analysis of the equitable doctrines of fiduciary duties, proprietary estoppel, and clean hands. For each doctrine, it is shown how their equitable characteristics are indispensable for achieving their social, ethical and economic purpose.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191079382
• Artikelnr.: 54660538

Autorenporträt

Irit Samet is a reader in private law at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London, where she teaches property, equity and trusts, and the theory of property. She read law and philosophy in Israel, and completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford. Her main research interests lie in the areas of equity, property law, theory of private law, and ethics.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Equity's Own Room
2: Proprietary Estoppel: On the Conscionability and Efficiency of Pre-contractual Negotiations
3: Fiduciary Law as Equity's Child
4: On Clean, Soiled, and Spattered Hands
5: Conclusion
Appendix: On Moral Truths and How Judges Find Them