Ballentine's Law Dictionary

Equity acts against the person. See 59 L. R. A. 907.

Equity relieves against accidents.

Equity as the daughter of conscience complies with rules of court.

Equity supplies defects.

Equity corrects errors.

Equity is equality.

Equity corrects a law which is too broad in that particular in which it is defective. See 5 L. R. A. 340.

Equity is a certain correction applied to the law, because on account of the law,s general comprehension, without any exception, something is lacking.

Equity is a certain perfect reasoning, which interprets and amends the written law not embraced in any writing but consisting simply in true reason.

Equity is a sort of equality.

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 a

Equity is the virtue of the will, the corrector of that in which the law on account of its universality is deficient.

Equity generally makes some exception from a broad legal principle.

Equity assists ignorance, but not carelessness.

Equity gives the power of the law to him who wishes to observe it.

Equity requires like laws for like cases.

Equity does not confuse jurisdiction.

Equity favors livery and seisin.

Equity does not change the nature of a thing.

Equity aids no man to the injury of another.

Equity does not make the law but assists the law.

Equity does not cure defects in positive requirements of the law.

Equity does not suffer him who holds a true right to prosecute it to extremes.

Equity does not permit one to get double satisfaction for the same grievance.

Equity does not supply those things which may be in the hands of the petitioner.

Equity is not vague and certain but has fixed boundaries and limits.

Equity never contravenes the law.

Equity never aids contention where it can give a remedy.

Equity favors the redemption of a pledge.

Equity regards form and circumstance as of less consequence than the subject matter itself.

Equity follows the law.

Equity dislikes superfluity.

Equity favors wives, children and creditors most.

Equity wishes by all means to arrive at truth.

Equity wishes the despoiled, the deceived and the ruined before all things to have restitution.

Doubtful meaning.

That which is just and good is the law of laws.

Equal; just.

To plough.

Money.

A debt.

His own money.

Value of the head; the fine for committing a murder.

The gravity of a crime is never enhanced by subsequent occurrences.

To do; to make.

Your disposition gives character to your work.

The attempt is punishable although the result does not follow.

To appraise; to assess.

Same as Afeer.

One appointed to tax an amercement. See 4 Bl. Comm. 380.

Cattle; horses.

To appraise; to assess.

To appraise.

The maker of an affidavit or deposition.

To swear.

A pledge of fealty.

An ally under the feudal system.

A signed statement sworn to before an authorized officer. See 50 Am. St. Rep. 162.

See Affidavit of Merits .

An affidavit stating that the defendant has stated his case and all of the facts of his case to his attorney and is by him informed and verily believes that he has a good defense t

An affidavit prerequisite to a civil arrest.

To file.

Ascertainment of paternity of a bastard child.

Relatives by marriage.

Relative by marriage.

A relative of my relative by marriage is not my relative.

Related by marriage.

Tie between a husband and the blood relations of the wife, and between a wife and the blood relations of the husband but not between the blood relations of either and those of the

To confirm a former judgment or order of court. See, also, Affirmation.

Confirmation of a judgment or order of court, as on an appeal.

A day appointed for the general affirmance or reversal of judgments in the court of exchequer.

One who affirms in lieu of swearing.

The burden of proof is upon the party affirming, not on him who denies.

The burden of proof is upon him who asserts.

To affirm; to assert.

A statement having the same effect and consequences as an oath, but not sworn to. See 18 Pick. (Mass.) 153.

That which states as a fact, affirmatively.

An affirmative allegation implying a negative in favor of the adverse party. See 134 Ind. 46, 32 N. E. 780.

Affixed; annexed.

To appraise; to assess; to estimate.

To compel jurors to agree by starving them or by adding jurors until twelve agreed.

To increase or strengthen.

To make into a forest.

To afforest.

See affer .

To set free.

A public fight.

Affreightment.

A contract for the hiring of a vessel.

See Affer .

Premeditated.

By the stronger reason; all the more.

In connection with time, the word may have an inclusive or exclusive meaning, according to subject matter, context and purpose. See Ann. Cas. 1912A, 796; also 49 L. R. A. 200.

A crop subsequent to the first; the right to such a crop.

See Full age .

More than fifty years old. See 65 Am. St. Rep. 306; also 39 L. R. A. 710.

The relation existing between a principal and his agent. See 46 L. R. A. 334.

A manager; a plaintiff. Agent. One who is authorized to bind his principal contractually or by representations. See 3 Am. St. Rep. 693; also Ann. Cas. 1913B, 84, and 2 L. R. A. 808

One who does a thing and who suffers it to be done to him.

One whose authority to bind a principal, the latter is by his conduct estopped to deny. See 12 Wall. (U. S.) 681, 20 L. Ed. 436.