equity
Kelime Anlamı :

1. tic. özsermaye.
2. eşitlik.
3. hakkaniyet.
4. (ticaret) borç ve ipotekten sonra firma ve sahibinin hakkı.
5. (hukuk) davalı ve davacı arasında eşitlik ve denkserlik namına verilen karar.
6. (hukuk) resmi kanunlara ilave edilen adalet üzerine kurulmuş kurullar ve evvelki emsal.
7. özsermaye.
8. net varlık.
9. adalet.
10. tarafsızlık.
Tanımlar :
1. that which is equally right or just to all concerned; equal or impartial justice; fairness; impartiality.
2. in law: fairness in the adjustment of conflicting interests; the application of the dictates of good conscience to the settlement of controversies: often called natural equity.
3. the system of jurisprudence or body of doctrines and rules as to what is equitable and fair and what is not, by which the defects of, and the incidental hardships resulting from, the inflexibility of the forms and the universality of the rules of the common-law tribunals are corrected or remedied, and substantial justice is done.
4. the court or jurisdiction in which these doctrines are applied: as, a suit in equity.
5. an equitable right; that to which one is justly entitled; specifically, a right recognized by courts of equity which the common law did not provide for: as, the wife's equity, or her right, when her husband sought to enforce his common-law claim to reduce her property to his own possession, to have a portion of it settled on herself.
6. the remaining interest belonging to one who has pledged or mortgaged his property, or the surplus of value which may remain after the property has been disposed of for the satisfaction of liens. [U. S.]
7. A right or obligation incident to a property or contract as between two persons, but not incident to the property or contract from its own nature. in this sense used in the plural.
8. in conveyancing, in the united states, the ownership of or title to real property which is subject to a mortgage: sometimes simply called equity.
9. right, law, etc. see justice.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
1. the difference between the market value of a property and the claims held against it
2. conformity with rules or standards
3. the ownership interest of shareholders in a corporation
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