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EQUITY (Lat. aequitas), a term which in its most general sense means equality or justice; in its most technical sense it means a system of law or a body of connected legal principles, which have superseded or supplemented the common law on the ground of their ...

... the promoted equites. The control of the imperial correspondence and purse was EQUITY at first in the hands of freedme.n and slaves. The emperor Claudius tentatively entrusted certain posts connected with these to the equites; in the time of Hadrian this beca ...

... inciples. For example, the state has never made any distinction between law and equity, and it has always followed the Civil Law procedure by petition and answer.1 The independent existence of Texas as a republic (1836-45) was also not without influence. By st ...

... chiefly in the East and South. In other states the common law judges have also equity jurisdiction; and in four states — New York, North Carolina, California and Idaho — there has been a complete fusion of law and equity. In colonial days the superior judges ...