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Fair and equitable benefit sharing, 'fair and equitable benefit sharing' means sharing of benefits as determined by the National Biodiversity Authority under s. 21. [Biological Diversity Act, 2002 (18 of 2003), s. 2(g)]...
equitable tolling
equitable tolling : a doctrine or principle of tort law: a statute of limitations will not bar a claim if despite use of due diligence the plaintiff did not or could not discover the injury until after the expiration of the limitations period ...
equitable subordination
equitable subordination : the subordination of a creditor's claim in a bankruptcy proceeding imposed by the court when the creditor has an unfair advantage over other creditors because of improper conduct or an advantageous position (as of a corporate insider) ...
equitable subrogation
equitable subrogation : subrogation ...
equitable title
equitable title see title ...
Equitable waste
Equitable waste, See WASTE....
Conversion, equitable
Conversion, equitable. It is an established principle that money directed to be employed in the purchase of realty, and realty directed to be sold and turned into money, are considered inequity as that species of property into which they are directed to be converted; and this, in whatever manner the direction is given; whether by will, or contract, marriage articles, settlement, or otherwise; and whether the money is actually deposited, or only covenanted to be paid, or whether the land is actually conveyed, or only agreed to be conveyed, Fletcher v. Ashburner, (1779) 1 Bro CC 497; 1 W&TLC. This principle is governed by the doctrine of equity, that that which ought to be done shall be deemed as actually done.The property thus equitably transmuted by anticipation will possess all the qualities, incidents, and peculiarities of that kind of property into which it is destined to be changed. See 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 74, s. 71.But the beneficiary, or all the beneficiaries together, provided they ...
Equitable assets
Equitable assets, Assets which could only be made available to creditors in a Court of equity; legal, in a Court of law (Halsb. L.E.); the distinction is not of any importance in regard to deaths after 1925, see ss. 2(3) and 32 of the Administration of Estates Act, 1925. See EXECUTOR....
Equitable assigment of debt
Equitable assigment of debt, This may be con-stituted merely by the debtor being given to under-stand that the debt has been made over by the creditor to some third person, and an assignment under s. 25(6) of the Jud. Act, 1873 (as to which see CHOSE), is not necessary, Brandt v. Dunlop Rubber Co., 1905 AC 454....
Equitable executor
Equitable executor, Where interests in property cannot be taken in execution under the processes at law available to the judgment creditor, he may obtain the appointment of a receiver and if necessary an injunction restraining the judgment debtor from dealing with the property. See R.S.C. Ord. L., r. 16 and Notes, A.P., ibid....
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