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equity (law)
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equity

System of law supplementing the ordinary rules of law where the application of these would operate harshly in a particular case; sometimes it is regarded as an attempt to achieve ‘natural justice’. So understood, equity appears as an element in most legal systems, and in a number of legal codes judges are instructed to apply both the rules of strict law and the principles of equity in reaching their decisions.



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Knafla, "Ellesmere wrote the modern definition of the equitable jurisdiction of the Chancery into the pages of the later law books,"(17) for Dawson the events of 1616 were an immense setback to the working partnership of common law and equity,(18) and J.
Equity and ideas: Coke, Ellesmere, and James I by Fortier, Mark / Renaissance Quarterly
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