Hints "Equity" ex aequo et bono "keeper of the King's conscience"
The narrow limits of the forms of action and the limited recourse they provided led to the development of equity law and equity case law."Equity", in its general meaning of doing "equity", deciding ex aequo et bono, was first granted by the King, and later by his Chancellor as "keeper of the King's conscience", to afford relief in hardship cases.
訴訟形式的限制以及其提供的有限追索權(quán)導(dǎo)致衡平法和衡平判例法的產(chǎn)生。衡平法，用普遍的意思就是“行為公平”，決定公平且善良。首先由國王，以后由作為“國王良知守護人”的大法官作出，以便對難以解決的案例提供救濟。