The Learning Out Loud Podcast

EP 7 is live—and we’re walking straight into the machinery of equity. In hour one we unpack two foundational maxims from Murray F. Tuley’s 1903 speech: “Equality is equity” and “Where there are equal equities, the first in order of time must prevail.” From commingled funds and unlawful preferences in Cunningham v. Brown (the Ponzi case), to competing equitable liens in Martin v. National Surety Co...

In this member episode of Learning Out Loud, Dustin William and Whitestone walk through Equity Maxim Five — He Who Seeks Equity Must Do Equity — and show how the principle operates in real litigation: equity will grant relief only on the condition that corresponding equitable rights are recognized on the other side. Along the way, they connect the maxim to the clean hands doctrine (and its limits)...

What does it really mean to come with "clean hands"? In Episode 5 of Learning Out Loud, we crack open one of equity's most powerful maxims — He who comes into equity must come with clean hands — and trace it from its roots in conscience-based courts all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Using primary sources from Pomeroy's Equity Jurisprudence, Murray F. Tully's 1903 address to the Illinois State...

What if equity could reach back through time to make right what was never done? In Episode 4 of Learning Out Loud, we break down the most foundational maxim in equity jurisprudence — "Equity regards that as done which ought to be done" — straight from Pomeroy's Equity Jurisprudence and Murray F. Tully's 1903 address to the bar. We walk through how courts use this principle to enforce intent over t...

What happens when the law says one thing but the truth says another? In Episode 3 of Learning Out Loud, Dustin William and Whitestone crack open the second equity maxim from Murray F. Tully's 1903 address to the Illinois bar: "Equity looks to the intent rather than to form." This principle — that courts of equity will pierce through the outer shell of any transaction to reach its real substance —...

"When you go to law, you get the law as it is. When you go into equity, you get justice." In Episode 2 of Learning Out Loud, we break down the most fundamental maxim of equity jurisprudence — agere in personam, equity acts on the person. Drawing directly from Murray F. Tully's 1903 address to the Illinois State Bar Association, Joseph Story's Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence, and Pomeroy's Equ...

Learning Out Loud is a Law, History & everything that’s been Occulted research podcast, hosted by Dustin William and Whitestone, produced by True Life. PRODUCTIONS. Each two-hour episode is built for listeners who want to dig into the primary sources and original documents that shaped the world we live in. The first ten episodes — The Foundations — are completely free, offering twenty hours of...