This page was last updated on 04 Mar 99. Substantive page on Nature of equitable ownership. Equitable rights as real rights. This is a majority decision of the House of Lords. Note that the speech of Lord Browne-Wilkinson may go beyond that of his brethren.
Equity acts in personam.
All E.R. 691. Discretionary remedies - behaviour of the applicant. Effect of the 1925 property legislation on the notice doctrine. 146 NLJ 405. Note that Lord Denning M.R.'s definition of an equitable easement for the purposes of the L.C.A. are not adopted by his brethren, and that his reasoning differed in other respects also.