... not fall within one of those types, there was no way of bringing the case to the common law court. At the same time, the common law was itself becoming increasingly rigid and offered only one remedy; damages, which was not always an adequate solution to every problem; for example, the plaintiff may have contracted to purchase a particular plot of land from the defendant for which compensation cannot provide a satisfactory equivalent in the event of the defendant's breach. Plaintiffs unable to gain access to the three common law courts (the Courts of Exchequer, Common Pleas and King's Bench) might directly appeal to the sovereign, and such pleas would be passed for consideration and decision to the Lord Chancellor, who acted as the king's conscience. As the common law courts became more formalistic and more inaccessible, pleas to the Chancellor correspondingly increased and eventually this resulted in the emergence of ...

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