Equity

Noun

 * 1) Ownership, especially in terms of net monetary value of some business.
 * 2)  A legal tradition that deals with remedies other than  relief, such as injunctions, divorces and similar actions.
 * 3)  Value of property minus liens or other.
 * 4)  Ownership interest in a company as determined by subtracting liabilities from.
 * 5) Justice, impartiality or fairness.

Thesaurus
Code Napoleon, Corpus Juris Canonici, Napoleonic code, Roman law, absolute interest, admiralty law, assessable stock, authorized capital stock, balance, benefit, blue chip, blue chip stock, blue law, body of law, borrowed stock, canon law, capital stock, capitulary, case law, chancery law, civil law, claim, code, code of laws, codification, coequality, coextension, commercial law, common, common law, common stock, compatibility, constitutional law, contingent interest, convertible preferred stock, corporate stock, corporation law, corpus juris, correlation, correspondence, criminal law, crown law, cumulative preferred stock, cyclical stock, decree law, defensibility, defensive stock, deferred stock, digest, digest of law, disinterest, disinterestedness, droit des gens, drumhead justice, dry law, dueness, easement, ecclesiastical law, eighth stock, equality, equation, equilibrium, equipoise, equipollence, equiponderance, equitable interest, equitableness, equities, equity security, equivalence, equivalency, estate, evenhandedness, evenness, exchangeability, fair play, fair-mindedness, fairness, fancies, floating stock, gag law, give-and-take, glamour issue, growth stock, guaranteed stock, high-flier, high-mindedness, holding, hot issue, hypothecated stock, identity, impartiality, inactive stock, income stock, interchangeability, interest, international law, issued capital stock, judiciousness, jus civile, jus commune, jus inter gentes, jus publicum, justice, justifiability, justifiableness, justification, justness, law merchant, lawfulness, legality, letter stock, levelness, lex domicilii, lex fori, lex loci, lex mercatorum, lex non scripta, lex scripta, lex situs, likeness, limitation, loaned stock, local law, long stock, martial law, measure for measure, meetness, nemesis, neutrality, nonassessable stock, nonvoting stock, objectivity, open-mindedness, ordinary shares, pale blue chip, pandect, par, parallelism, parity, part, participating preferred stock, penal code, penal law, penny stock, percentage, poetic justice, poise, positive law, preference stock, preferred stock, properness, proportion, propriety, protective stock, public law, quarter stock, rails, retributive justice, reverse split, right, right of entry, rightfulness, rightness, rude justice, sameness, scales of justice, sea law, seasoned stock, settlement, share ledger, shares, short stock, special situation stock, specialty stock, speculative stock, split, stake, standard stock, statute law, steels, stock, stock ledger, stock list, stock split, stocks, strict settlement, substantive law, summary justice, symmetry, ten-share unit stock, title, tolerance, treasury stock, trust, unissued capital stock, unwritten law, use, utilities, vested interest, voting stock, warrantability, warrantedness, what is right, written law

Etymology
Attested in the 14th Century ; from equite:, from  aequitatem:.

Translations

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 * Finnish: pääoma, oma pääoma


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 * Danish: billighedsret


 * Danish: friværdi


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 * Danish: rimelighed, retfærdighed
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 * Romanian: imparțialitate, echitate, nepărtinire


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