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Equity   /ˈɛkwəti/   Listen
Equity

noun
(pl. equities)
1.
The difference between the market value of a property and the claims held against it.
2.
The ownership interest of shareholders in a corporation.
3.
Conformity with rules or standards.  Synonym: fairness.  Antonyms: unfairness, inequity.



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"Equity" Quotes from Famous Books



... had rested either hand upon a stalwart shoulder, bending down to him till her hair brushed his. Yes, this man was peculiarly dear to her: she could not bear to have him murdered when in equity he deserved only to have his jaws boxed for his toplofty nonsense about her; and, after all, she did not much mind humoring him in ...
— The Line of Love - Dizain des Mariages • James Branch Cabell
... Your Petitioners (in behalf of the aforesaid distress'd people) most humbly Supplicate your Majesty in your great & known Equity & Compassion to Interpose Your Majesty's Good Offices upon this Occasion with the Queen of Hungary in order to prevail upon her said Majesty to revoke the said Edict or at least to Suspend the time of the Expulsion of their said Brethren & to establish ...
— Notes on the Diplomatic History of the Jewish Question • Lucien Wolf
... shipwreck of the year 1720, and the labours of thirty years were blasted in a single day. Of the use or abuse of the South-Sea scheme, of the guilt or innocence of my grandfather and his brother directors, I am neither a competent nor a disinterested judge. Yet the equity of modern times must condemn the violent and arbitrary proceedings, which would have disgraced the cause of justice, and rendered injustice still more odious. No sooner had the nation awakened from its golden dream, ...
— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds • Charles Mackay
... caused. In addition, they shall make good any losses caused by them to the said Indians, and shall pay all costs. The aforesaid persons are likewise ordered to make the collections with all possible gentleness and equity, observing the other instructions of his Majesty concerning the manner of collecting tributes. The Indians shall pay in kind, or in such articles as they prefer to give. I also order that an authorized copy of this my decree be furnished ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume VIII (of 55), 1591-1593 • Emma Helen Blair
... was not hungry. He shared his lunch with her with a boy's rigid equity, even to the half of a hard-boiled egg and the half ...
— The Valley of the Moon • Jack London


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