embedded in the judicial frameworks of the courts. The courts have relied on equity "as a source of law to devise a new principle in a situation where the statute or codified law had no answer to a given situation". The Supreme Court of India recognised this fusion of the law by further expanding the application of its equitable and remedial powers in the areas of environmental degradation, tort law, strict liability doctrines and human rights. Scotland As there is no separate court in Scotland which exclusively operates an equity jurisdiction, the country’s legal system is classified as mixed. The Court of Session controls both jurisdictions, by differentiating between common law and equity throughout cases brought before it. This provides greater certainty to parties, given that the court has the power to provide relief in either equity or common law where the party is not entitled to one or the other. As the two jurisdictions became indistinguishable, "what in effect was a rule in equity became in practice considered as common law". Scottish lawyers have raised concern that this system would create unjust decisions where cases are approached in terms of combining equity and common law reasoning. Others followed Lord Kames's view of a dual approach, whereby equity in the court existed for the purpose of creating "new equitable rules which gradually hardened into common law by virtue of their usage across time". See also Court of Chancery Court of Chancery (Ireland) Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Durham and Sadberge Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Lancaster Court of Requests Court of the Star Chamber Delaware Court of Chancery Exchequer of Pleas Michigan Court of Chancery New York Court of Chancery References External links Brief History of Equity Courts in the U.S. state of Delaware Common law English legal terminology Equity (law) Courts by type Jurisprudence Legal history of England English laws Medieval English law Legal history of Scotland Former courts and tribunals in the United Kingdom Legal history of India Legal history of Australia Legal history of the United States ru:Канцлерский суд