Staley v. Homeland, Inc.
District Court, E.D. North Carolina
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION and ORDER
LARKINS, District Judge:
In its broadest and most general signification, Equity denotes the spirit and the habit of fairness, justness, and right dealing which would regulate the intercourse of men with men. But in this sense its obligation is ethical rather than jural, and its discussion belongs to the sphere of morals. It is grounded in the precepts of the conscience, not in any sanction of positive law. Black’s Law Dictionary.
This cause involves two eases in which fairness, justness, and right dealing rest with the plaintiffs while the positive law is aligned on…
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