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equity

noun

eq·​ui·​ty ˈe-kwə-tē How to pronounce equity (audio)
plural equities
1
a
: justice according to natural law or right
specifically : freedom from bias or favoritism
b
: something that is equitable
2
a
: the money value of a property or of an interest in a property in excess of claims or liens against it
b
: the common stock of a corporation
c
: a risk interest or ownership right in property
d
: a right, claim, or interest existing or valid in equity
3
a
: a system of law originating in the English chancery and comprising a settled and formal body of legal and procedural rules and doctrines that supplement, aid, or override common and statute law and are designed to protect rights and enforce duties fixed by substantive law
b
: trial or remedial justice under or by the rules and doctrines of equity
c
: a body of legal doctrines and rules developed to enlarge, supplement, or override a narrow rigid system of law

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Equity usually appears in courts of law as a term related to justice or proportional fairness, or in financial offices to property or one's share of a company. The derivative root of the noun, which gained stability in the English language during the 1300s, is Latin aequus, meaning "even," "fair," or "equal"; however, to be fair, it was introduced to English by the French, whose adaptation of the Latin was equité. The French word has clear legal connotations; it means "justice" or "rightness," and those meanings, plus a splash of "fairness," carried over to the English word equity. Noah Webster, himself a lawyer, notes the legal term equity of redemption in his 1828 dictionary defining it as "the advantage, allowed to a mortgager, of a reasonable time to redeem lands mortgaged, when the estate is of greater value than the sum for which it was mortgaged." This use led to the modern financial meanings of equity: "the value of a piece of property after any debts that remain to be paid are subtracted" and "a share in a company or of a company's stock."

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In making these decisions we should be governed by the principle of equity. We've been slowly paying off our mortgage and building up equity in our house.
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Word History

Etymology

Middle English equite, from Anglo-French equité, from Latin aequitat-, aequitas, from aequus equal, fair

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Time Traveler
The first known use of equity was in the 14th century

Phrases Containing equity

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