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Hohfeld’s Equity

Year of Publication: 2022
Month of Publication: 7
Author(s): James E. Penner
Research Area(s): Equity and Trusts
Book Title: Wesley Hohfeld A Century Later: Edited Works, Select Personal Papers, and Original Commentaries
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Abstract: In 1913 Hohfeld published “The Relations Between Equity and Law” in the Michigan Law Review. It is an odd sort of piece. In the first eight pages Hohfeld sets out his disagreement with Maitland, who held that the common law and equity are not (for the most part2) in conflict.