comparative injury

comparative injury
A doctrine of equity which denies relief where the inconvenience and the injury to the plaintiff are not of a pressing character and the result of equitable relief by injunction will be to cause a large loss to the defendant. 28 Am J Rev ed Inj § 52; 39 Am J1st Nuis § 161.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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