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Two Maxims of Equity

It is a commonplace that statements of legal doctrine sound both more determinate and more authoritative than they necessarily are. And this must be especially true of the maxims of equity,1 which possess a peculiarly Delphic quality, wrapped as they are in metaphor, grandly unqualified, and acknowledging no authority but transcendent wisdom. Therein may have lain their particular usefulness to the law.2 But therein too lies a worry. For it follows that reasoning based on a maxim especially facilitates the introduction of unarticulated valuejudgments; and indeed that such reasoning carries an unusually high risk of actual error, as the judges themselves miss their way.