<P> For much of its history , the English common law was principally developed and administered in the central royal courts : the Court of King 's Bench , the Court of Common Pleas , and the Exchequer . Equity was the name given to the law which was administered in the Court of Chancery . The Judicature Reforms in the 1870s effected a procedural fusion of the two bodies of law , ending their institutional separation . The reforms did not effect any substantive fusion , however . Judicial or academic reasoning which assumes the contrary has been described as a `` fusion fallacy '' . </P>
<P> For much of its history , the English common law was principally developed and administered in the central royal courts : the Court of King 's Bench , the Court of Common Pleas , and the Exchequer . Equity was the name given to the law which was administered in the Court of Chancery . The Judicature Reforms in the 1870s effected a procedural fusion of the two bodies of law , ending their institutional separation . The reforms did not effect any substantive fusion , however . Judicial or academic reasoning which assumes the contrary has been described as a `` fusion fallacy '' . </P>
when did all courts become courts of equity
when did all courts become courts of equity
the 1870s
the 1870s