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Equity

Ballentine's Law Dictionary · James A. Ballentine · 1916

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

The system of jurisprudence which was designed to relieve from the hardships of the common law, in which equitable remedies are administered by courts of equity; good conscience; courts of equity; an equitable right, estate or interest.

See 8 Misc. Rep. 484, 29 N. Y. Supp. 342.