Definition of Equity

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Equity

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.

An equitable claim; an equity of redemption; as, an equity to a settlement, or wife's equity, etc.

A system of jurisprudence, supplemental to law, properly so called, and complemental of it.

Related Definitions:

According, An, And, As, Called, Claim, Complemental, Conflicting, Desiring, Determination, Due, Each, Equality, Equitable, Equity, Fairness, Give, Giving, God, His, Impartiality, In, It, Jurisprudence, Justice, Law, Man, Natural, Of, Or, Properly, Reason, Right, Settlement, So, Supplemental, System, The, To, Wife

Equity Quotations

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
Edmund Burke

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.
Amartya Sen

We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households.
Timothy Geithner

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
David Herbert Lawrence

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
Michael Graves

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
Charles Caleb Colton

The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price.
David Korten

The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.
Herbert Read

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.
Jacques Delors

The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around 20,000 pounds. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child.
Daniel Hannan

Equity Translations

equity in German is Eigenkapital, Gerechtigkeit
equity in Italian is giustizia
equity in Latin is aequitas, iustitia, equitas

Quotes