General Equity
Complaints filed in the Chancery Division, General Equity are for what is known as equitable
relief rather than monetary compensation. This usually involves the court’s compelling or restricting the
actions of one of the parties (such as labor injunctions, foreclosures, and dissolution of a partnership or
corporation). General Equity judges have jurisdiction to grant relief in the following areas:
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Enforcing the performance of contracts, trusts and fiduciary obligations;
Re-executing or correcting documents lost or erroneously drafted;
Setting aside transactions that were illegal, fraudulent, etc.;
Executing writs of attachment;
Stopping actions that will cause irreparable harm; and
Granting the reacquisition of property upon default of mortgage or tax payments in
foreclosure actions.
