High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The maxims of equity evolved, in Latin and eventually translated into English, as the principles applied by courts of equity in deciding cases before them. An English authority states about the the maxims of equity: "The Maxims do not cover the whole ground, and moreover they overlap, one maxim contains by implication what belongs to another. Indeed it would not be difficult to reduce all under two: `Equity will not suffer a wrong to be without a remedy` and `Equity acts on the person`".