equitable doctrine
41Open mines doctrine — Property law Part of …
42clean–up doctrine — n: a doctrine of jurisdiction that allows a court of chancery which has acquired jurisdiction in a case to decide both equitable and legal questions provided that the legal questions are incidental to the equitable ones Merriam Webster’s… …
43Fairness Doctrine — The Fairness Doctrine was a policy of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was (in the FCC s view) …
44Exhaustion doctrine — This article is about the first sale doctrine as applied to patents. For the analogous first sale doctrine applicable to copyright, see First sale doctrine. Under the exhaustion doctrine, doctrine of exhaustion, or first sale doctrine, the first… …
45First-sale doctrine (patent) — Under the first sale doctrine, the first unrestricted sale of a patented item exhausts the patentee s control over that particular item. It generally is asserted as an affirmative defense to charges of patent infringement, but less commonly is… …
46clean hands doctrine — Under this doctrine, equity will not grant relief to a party, who, as actor, seeks to set judicial machinery in motion and obtain some remedy, if such party in prior conduct has violated conscience or good faith Or other equitable principle.… …
47clean hands doctrine — Under this doctrine, equity will not grant relief to a party, who, as actor, seeks to set judicial machinery in motion and obtain some remedy, if such party in prior conduct has violated conscience or good faith Or other equitable principle.… …
48Merger doctrine (trust law) — In the law of trusts the term doctrine of merger refers to the fusing of legal and equitable title in the event the same person becomes both the sole trustee and the sole beneficiary of a trust. In such a case, the trust is sometimes deemed to… …
49trust fund doctrine — The principle, commonly known as the American doctrine, that the property of a corporation must be appropriated to the payment of debts before any assets are distributed among stockholders. Wood v Dummer (CC Me) 3 Mason 308, F Cas No 17944;… …
50Wagoner Doctrine — The Wagoner Doctrine is a 2nd Circuit legal principle applying the longstanding common law in pari delicto (roughly translated in equal fault ) rule in the bankruptcy setting. Though controversial due to its willingness to bar recovery in what is …
