CAIRNS’S ACT

By admin | April 4, 2014

Cairns’s Act (kairn-z<<schwa>>z).Hist. An 1858 statute that expanded the relief available in England’s chancery courts to include monetary damages in addition to injunctive relief. • Cairns’s

Act was superseded by the Judicature Acts of 1873–1875. — Also spelled Cairns’ Act. Cf. JUDICATURE ACTS .

[Blacks Law 8th]

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