Equity acts upon the person.

Explanation

Equity directs its decrees to the person of the defendant, commanding or forbidding specific acts — this is its distinctive power over courts of law, which act only on property and money.

Where this applies

• A court orders someone specifically to perform a contract rather than just pay damages.
• An equity court commands a person to stop doing something harmful.

See also

• 1.4.1 Equity is a certain perfect reason which interprets and amends the written law, comprehended in no writing, but consisting in right reason alone.
• 8.1.1 No man ought to be a judge in his own cause.