6. Equity (epieikeia) in William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (original) (raw)

In his Commentaries on the Laws of England, William Blackstone discusses equity in two senses: first, as a general jurisprudential concept, and second as the specific practices and principles of the English Chancery's Court of Equity. There are discussions of the concept of equity which have nothing to do with the Court of Equity; there are discussions of the Court of Equity which have nothing to do with the concept of equity; and there places where the concept and the Court overlap, namely where Blackstone assesses the Court in terms of the concept.