Equity Delights to do Justice, and not by Halves Definition:

The maxim is sometimes stated as:

"Once equity assumes jurisdiction of a cause, it may afford complete relief when it has jurisdiction on any ground."¹

In Moore v Moore, Justice Stakely of the Supreme Court of Alabama:

"It is a familiar principle that equity grants full relief when it has jurisdiction on any equitable ground to grant any relief. Having assumed jurisdiction of a part the court will determine all the interrelated equities of the whole.

"Equity delights to do justice, and not by halves."

REFERENCES:

• Carter v State, 393 So. 2d 1368 (Supreme Court of Alabama, 1981, NOTE 1)
• Moore v Moore, 51 So. 2d 683 (1951)