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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 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 title

equitable title see title ...


equitable subrogation

equitable subrogation : subrogation ...


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 recoupment

equitable recoupment : a doctrine that allows the government to collect a tax or a taxpayer to collect a refund of tax after the running of the statute of limitations for such collection in cases where the statute of limitations creates an inequitable result ...


equitable owner

equitable owner see owner ...


equitable election

equitable election : the choice that a beneficiary of an instrument (as a will) must make to forgo a challenge to the instrument and accept the benefit or vice versa ...


equitable lien

equitable lien see lien ...


equitable assignment

equitable assignment see assignment ...


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