Equity Follows the Law

1. Law
2. Georgia Code
3. Equity
4. General Provisions
5. Equity Follows the Law

Equity is ancillary, not antagonistic, to the law; hence, equity follows the law where the rule of law is applicable and follows the analogy of the law where no rule is directly applicable.

(Orig. Code 1863, § 3016; Code 1868, § 3028; Code 1873, § 3083; Code 1882, § 3083; Civil Code 1895, § 3923; Civil Code 1910, § 4520; Code 1933, § 37-103.)

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 27 Am. Jur. 2d, Equity, §§ 123, 124.

C.J.S.

- 30 C.J.S., Equity, § 103.

ALR.

- Jurisdiction of equity to protect personal rights; modern view, 175 A.L.R. 438.

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