Equity
['ekwɪtɪ] or ['ɛkwəti]
Definition
(noun.) the ownership interest of shareholders in a corporation.
(noun.) the difference between the market value of a property and the claims held against it.
Editor: Rochelle--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) An equitable claim; an equity of redemption; as, an equity to a settlement, or wife's equity, etc.
(n.) A system of jurisprudence, supplemental to law, properly so called, and complemental of it.
Inputed by Effie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Justice, right.[2]. Chancery.
Editor: William
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See EQUITABLE]
Editor: Nat
Definition
n. right as founded on the laws of nature: moral justice of which laws are the imperfect expression: the spirit of justice which enables us to interpret laws rightly: fairness.—adj. Eq′uitable possessing or showing equity: held or exercised in equity.—n. Eq′uitableness.—adv. Eq′uitably.
Typed by Anatole
Examples
- A court in equity should not look with favor on such a defence. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Perhaps before the eye of severe equity I should stand more at fault than you. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Whether those pleading orators were persons educated in the general knowledge of equity, or only in provincial, national, and other local customs? Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- That's equity, my guardian explained, a little at a loss; that's equity, George. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Its system of equity is a very great system, a very great system. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Did you ever know English law, or equity either, plain and to the purpose? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Sir, said Gridley, putting down the child and going up to him as if he meant to strike him, do you know anything of Courts of Equity? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Typist: Lolita