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equity


equity is a   Noun

Definition:

[1] 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. Christianity secures both the private interests of men and the public peace, enforcing all justice and equity. Tillotson.

[2] An equitable claim; an equity of redemption; as, an equity to a settlement, or wife`s equity, etc. I consider the wife`s equity to be too well settled to be shaken. Kent.

[3] A system of jurisprudence, supplemental to law, properly so called, and complemental of it. Equity had been gradually shaping itself into a refined science which no human faculties could master without long and intense application. Macaulay.


Synonyms:

fairness
honesty
impartiality
justice
rectitude
right
uprightnes

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