Jequitas

Inthe civil law. Eguity, as opposed to strictum or summum jus, (g. bv.) Otherwise called aquum, aquum bonum, equim et bonum, equum et justum. Calvin. Aigquites agit in personam. Equity acts upon the person. 4 Bouv. Inst, n. 3783. Aiquitas est correctio legis generaliter late, qua parte deficit. Equity is the correction of that wherein the law, by reason of its generality, is deficient, Plowd. 375. Aiquitas est correctio queedam legi adsionem, Equity is a certain correction applied to law, becauseen account of its general comprehensiveness, without an exception, something is absent from it. Plowd. 467. “Equitas est perfecta queedam ratio qu jus seriptum interpretatur et emendat; nulla scriptura comprehensa, sed solum in vera ratione consistens. Equity is a certain perfect reason, which interprets and amends the written law, comprehended in no writing, but consisting in right reason alone. Co, Litt. 246. Aiquitas est quasi sequalitas. Equity is as it were equality; equity is a species of equality or equalization. Co. Litt, 24. Aiquitas ignorantis opitulatur, osceitantiz non item. Equity assists ignorance, but not carelessness. Aiquitas non facit jus, sed juri anxiljiatur. Equity does not make law, but assists law. Lofft, 379. Aiquitas nunquam contravenit leges. Equity never counteracts the laws. Aiquitas sequitur legem. Equity follows the law. Gilb. 186. Aiquitas supervacua odit. Equity abhors superfluous things. Lofft, 282, Equitas uxoribis, liberis, creditoribus maxime favet. Equity favors wives and children, creditors most of all. AHiquum et bonum estlexlegum. What is equitable and good is the law of laws, Hob, 224.