Aequitas est verborum legis sufficiens directo, quae una res sollum-modo, cavetur verbis, ut omnis alia in aequali genere, iisdem cavetur verbis

Dictionary: 
Ballentine's Law Dictionary

Equity is the plain interpretation of words of law in such manner as that where one thing only is guarded against by the words, all other things of the same kind are also guarded against by these words.

Author: 
James A. Ballentine
Publisher: 
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Year Published: 
1916
Genre: 
Law Dictionary