clean–up doctrine

clean–up doctrine
clean–up doctrine n: a doctrine of jurisdiction that allows a court of chancery which has acquired jurisdiction in a case to decide both equitable and legal questions provided that the legal questions are incidental to the equitable ones

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. . 1996.

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