Equity provides fair remedies when strict legal rules would result in an unfair outcome. It supplements but does not override common law. Equity developed in England when common law courts could not address all legal problems. A key figure was the Lord Chancellor who administered equity rulings. Major deficiencies of common law addressed by equity included incomplete remedies and procedures. Maxims of equity provide flexible principles rather than binding rules to guide equitable decisions. Key maxims include equity will provide a remedy when law cannot, equity follows law, and those seeking equity must do equity.