What do you mean by Equitable Remedies

Question

What do you mean by Equitable Remedies?

Answer 1

Equitable remedies recognize that there are circumstances when monetary damages alone are inadequate. Such remedies are given at the court's discretion, and a plaintiff cannot claim such a right automatically on breach of contract. Impediments to obtaining an equitable remedy are lack of clean hands by the plaintiff (i.e., the conduct of the plaintiff has not been good), unreasonable delay by the plaintiff in bringing the action, adverse effect on an innocent third party, and lack of valuable consideration, as well as situations where the plaintiff could not have had the remedy awarded against him if he had been the defendant.