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A court of equity is a type of court with the power to grant remedies other than�monetary damages. These remedies include�injunctions,�writs, or�specific performance among others.�Traditionally, English courts followed a distinction between�courts of law, which could grant exclusively monetary damages,�and courts of equity, which could not. The�Court of Chancery�was an example of an early English court of equity.

This distinction between the two types of courts has now largely been dissolved.�In the United States, the adoption of�Federal Rules of Civil Procedure�in 1938 gave courts a combined�jurisdiction�over matters of law and equity. �Bankruptcy courts�and certain other state courts (in�Delaware,�Mississippi,�New Jersey and�Tennessee) can be considered as a remaining examples of courts of equity.