Equity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: Eq=ui=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

Equity, n. [F. équité, L. aequitas, fr. aequus even, equal. See Equal.].

•  Equality of rights; natural justice or right; the giving, or desiring to give, to each man his due, according to reason, and the law of God to man; fairness in determination of conflicting claims; impartiality.  [1913 Webster]

  "Christianity secures both the private interests of men and the public peace, enforcing all justice and equity."  [1913 Webster]
•  An equitable claim; an equity of redemption; as, an equity to a settlement, or wife's equity, etc.  [1913 Webster]

  "I consider the wife's equity to be too well settled to be shaken."  [1913 Webster]
•  A system of jurisprudence, supplemental to law, properly so called, and complemental of it.  [1913 Webster]

  " Equitable jurisprudence in England and in the United States grew up from the inadequacy of common-law forms to secure justice in all cases; and this led to distinct courts by which equity was applied in the way of injunctions, bills of discovery, bills for specified performance, and other processes by which the merits of a case could be reached more summarily or more effectively than by common-law suits. By the recent English Judicature Act (1873), however, the English judges are bound to give effect, in common-law suits, to all equitable rights and remedies; and when the rules of equity and of common law, in any particular case, conflict, the rules of equity are to prevail. In many jurisdictions in the United States, equity and common law are thus blended; in others distinct equity tribunals are still maintained. See Chancery."  [1913 Webster]

  "Equity had been gradually shaping itself into a refined science which no human faculties could master without long and intense application."  [1913 Webster]

Equity of redemption (Law), the advantage, allowed to a mortgageor, of a certain or reasonable time to redeem lands mortgaged, after they have been forfeited at law by the nonpayment of the sum of money due on the mortgage at the appointed time. Blackstone.

Syn. -- Right; justice; impartiality; rectitude; fairness; honesty; uprightness. See Justice.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Equity, n. (pl. -ies)
1 fairness.
2 the application of the principles of justice to correct or supplement the law.
3 a the value of the shares issued by a company. b (in pl.) stocks and shares not bearing fixed interest.
4 the net value of a mortgaged property after the deduction of charges.
5 (Equity) Brit. the actors' trade union.

Etymology

ME f. OF equit{eacute} f. L aequitas -tatis f. aequus fair

THESAURUS

Equity

Code Napoleon, Corpus Juris Canonici, Napoleonic code, Roman law, absolute interest, admiralty law, assessable stock, authorized capital stock, balance, benefit, blue chip, blue chip stock, blue law, body of law, borrowed stock, canon law, capital stock, capitulary, case law, chancery law, civil law, claim, code, code of laws, codification, coequality, coextension, commercial law, common, common law, common stock, compatibility, constitutional law, contingent interest, convertible preferred stock, corporate stock, corporation law, corpus juris, correlation, correspondence, criminal law, crown law, cumulative preferred stock, cyclical stock, decree law, defensibility, defensive stock, deferred stock, digest, digest of law, disinterest, disinterestedness, droit des gens, drumhead justice, dry law, dueness, easement, ecclesiastical law, eighth stock, equality, equation, equilibrium, equipoise, equipollence, equiponderance, equitable interest, equitableness, equities, equity security, equivalence, equivalency, estate, evenhandedness, evenness, exchangeability, fair play, fair-mindedness, fairness, fancies, floating stock, gag law, give-and-take, glamour issue, growth stock, guaranteed stock, high-flier, high-mindedness, holding, hot issue, hypothecated stock, identity, impartiality, inactive stock, income stock, interchangeability, interest, international law, issued capital stock, judiciousness, jus civile, jus commune, jus inter gentes, jus publicum, justice, justifiability, justifiableness, justification, justness, law merchant, lawfulness, legality, letter stock, levelness, lex domicilii, lex fori, lex loci, lex mercatorum, lex non scripta, lex scripta, lex situs, likeness, limitation, loaned stock, local law, long stock, martial law, measure for measure, meetness, nemesis, neutrality, nonassessable stock, nonvoting stock, objectivity, open-mindedness, ordinary shares, pale blue chip, pandect, par, parallelism, parity, part, participating preferred stock, penal code, penal law, penny stock, percentage, poetic justice, poise, positive law, preference stock, preferred stock, properness, proportion, propriety, protective stock, public law, quarter stock, rails, retributive justice, reverse split, right, right of entry, rightfulness, rightness, rude justice, sameness, scales of justice, sea law, seasoned stock, settlement, share ledger, shares, short stock, special situation stock, specialty stock, speculative stock, split, stake, standard stock, statute law, steels, stock, stock ledger, stock list, stock split, stocks, strict settlement, substantive law, summary justice, symmetry, ten-share unit stock, title, tolerance, treasury stock, trust, unissued capital stock, unwritten law, use, utilities, vested interest, voting stock, warrantability, warrantedness, what is right, written law

ROGET THESAURUS

Equity

Legality

N legality, legitimacy, legitimateness, legislature, law, code, corpus juris, constitution, pandect, charter, enactment, statute, rule, canon, ordinance, institution, regulation, bylaw, byelaw, decree, ordonnance, standing order, plebiscite, legal process, form, formula, formality, rite, arm of the law, habeas corpus, fieri facias, jurisprudence, nomology, legislation, codification, equity, common law, lex, lex nonscripta, law of nations, droit des gens, international law, jus gentium, jus civile, civil law, canon law, crown law, criminal law, statute law, ecclesiastical law, administrative law, lex mercatoria, constitutionalism, constitutionality, justice, court, tribunal, judge, lawyer, attorney, legal counsel, legal, legitimate, according to law, vested, constitutional, chartered, legalized, lawful, statutable, statutory, legislatorial, legislative, regulatory, regulated, legally, in the eye of the law, de jure, ignorantia legis neminem excusat, ignorance of the law is no excuse, where law ends tyranny begins.

Right

N right, what ought to be, what should be, fitness, summum jus, justice, equity, equitableness, propriety, fair play, impartiality, measure for measure, give and take, lex talionis, Astraea, Nemesis, Themis, scales of justice, evenhanded justice, karma, suum cuique, clear stage, fair field and no favor, level playing field, morals, law, honor, virtue, right, good, just, reasonable, fit, equal, equable, equatable, evenhanded, fair, legitimate, justifiable, rightful, as it should be, as it ought to be, lawful deserved, rightly, +a bon droit, au bon droit, in justice, in equity, in reason, without distinction of persons, without regard to persons, without respect to persons, upon even terms, Int, all right!, fair's fair, Dieu et mon droit, in equal scale weighing delight and dole, justitia cuum cuique distribuit, justitiae soror incorrupta fides, justitia virtutem regina, thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just.

Probity

N probity, integrity, rectitude, uprightness, honesty, faith, honor, bonne foi, good faith, bona fides, purity, clean hands, fairness, fair play, justice, equity, impartiality, principle, even-handedness, grace, constancy, faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty, incorruption, incorruptibility, trustworthiness, truth, candor, singleness of heart, veracity, tender conscience, punctilio, delicacy, nicety, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, scruple, point, point of honor, punctuality, dignity, (repute), respectability, respectableness, gentilhomme, gentleman, man of honor, man of his word, fidus Achates, preux chevalier, galantuomo, truepenny, trump, brick, true Briton, white man, court of honor, a fair field and no favor, argumentum ad verecundiam, upright, honest, honest as daylight, veracious, virtuous, honorable, fair, right, just, equitable, impartial, evenhanded, square, fair and aboveboard, open and aboveboard, white, constant, constant as the northern star, faithful, loyal, staunch, true, true blue, true to one's colors, true to the core, true as the needle to the pole, marble-constant, true- hearted, trusty, trustworthy, as good as one's word, to be depended on, incorruptible, straightforward, frank, candid, open-hearted, conscientious, tender-conscienced, right-minded, high-principled, high-minded, scrupulous, religious, strict, nice, punctilious, correct, punctual, respectable, reputable, gentlemanlike, inviolable, inviolate, unviolated, unbroken, unbetrayed, unbought, unbribed, innocent, pure, stainless, unstained, untarnished, unsullied, untainted, unperjured, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undefiled, undepraved, undebauched, integer vitae scelerisque purus, justus et tenax propositi, chivalrous, jealous of honor, sans peur et sans reproche, high-spirited, supramundane, unworldly, other-worldly, overscrupulous, honorable, bona fide, on the square, in good faith, honor bright, foro conscientiae, with clean hands, a face untaught to feign, bene qui latuit bene vixit, mens sibi conscia recti, probitas laudatur et alget, fidelis ad urnam, his heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth, loyaute m'oblige, loyaute n'a honte, what stronger breastplate than a heart untainted?.