equity
NOUN · English
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English is Experimental in Words. Support is measured, not declared: a language reaches Partial only when every measure meets its threshold, and a measure that has not been taken does not count. The development corpus holds 60 source-backed words in English. What is shown may be incomplete, and pronunciation audio, generated forms and generated examples are not offered.
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Definition: Fairness, impartiality, or justice as determined in light of "natural law" or "natural right". From a source of medium confidence.
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- Sufficeth what they in their graue wiſedoomes ſhall proſcribe, I in no ſorte will ſeeke to acquite, nor preſumptuouſly attempte to diſpute againſt the equity of their iudgementes, but humble and proſtrate appeale to their mercies. 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 2:
- “One of the staff said, ‘That’s fine, Delia. But what do wolves have to do with equity, justice and inclusion?’" Ms. Malone said. 2025 November 7, David A. Fahrenthold, Claire Brown, quoting Delia Malone, “The Sierra Club Embraced Social Justice. Then It Tore Itself Apart.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
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Definition: The power of a court of law having extra-statutory discretion, to decide legal matters and to provide legal relief apart from, though not in violation of, the prevailing legal code; in some cases, a court "sitting in equity" may provide relief to a complainant should the code be found either inapplicable or insufficient to do so. From a source of medium confidence.
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- 1800, Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon in Mayor, &c. of Southampton v. Graves (1800), 8 T. R. 592. A Court of equity knows its own province. Usage example — not an attested quotation.
- A Court of equity interposes only according to conscience. Usage example — not an attested quotation. 1851, Edward Sugden, 1st Baron St Leonards in Birch v. Joy (1851), 3 H. L. C. 598
- Equity had been gradually shaping itself into a refined science which no human faculties could master without long and intense application. Usage example — not an attested quotation. 1848-55, Thomas Babington Macaulay, History of England, Chapter IX
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Definition: A right which accrues to a party in a transaction because of the nature of the transaction itself, and which is exercisable upon a change of circumstances or conditions; in other words, an equitable claim. From a source of medium confidence.
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- ...the mortgagor retains ‘equitable title’ or the ‘equity of redemption’….The equity of redemption permits the mortgagor to regain legal title to the mortgaged property upon satisfying the conditions of the mortgage... Usage example — not an attested quotation. 1999, In Re Fitzgerald, 237 B.R. 252, 261 (Bkrtcy. D.Conn. 1999)
- The wife's equity does not, according to the adjudged cases, attach, except upon that part of her personal property in action which the husband cannot acquire without the assistance of a court of equity 1826, James Kent, Commentaries on American Law:
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Definition: The body of law which was developed in the English Court of Chancery, which Court had extra-statutory discretion, and is now administered alongside the common law of Britain. From a source of medium confidence.
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Definition: Value of property minus liens or other encumbrances. From a source of medium confidence.
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- I have a lot of equity in my house. Usage example — not an attested quotation.
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Definition: Ownership, especially in terms of net monetary value of some business. From a source of medium confidence.
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- Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:
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Definition: Ownership interest in a company as determined by subtracting liabilities from assets. From a source of medium confidence.
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Definition: A player's expected share of the pot. From a source of medium confidence.
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Definition: Equality From a source of medium confidence.
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- What steps the Government are taking to help ensure equity of opportunity for people from low-income families. 2020 July 22, Ben Bradley, “Low-income Families: Equity of Opportunity”, in parliamentary debates (House of Commons), column 2139:
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Etymology: From Middle English equitee, equytee, from Old French equité, from Latin aequitās (“uniformity; impartiality; fairness”). From a source of medium confidence.
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