Equity - Law Dictionary Search Results
leveraged buyout
acquisition of a company usually by members of its own management using debt to finance the purchase of equity with debt to be paid by future profits or sale of company assets
Justness
The quality of being just conformity to truth propriety accuracy exactness and the like justice reasonableness fairness equity as justness of proportions the justness of a description or representation the justness of a cause
ex aequo et bono
the case often used in international law when a matter is to be decided according to principles of equity rather than by points of law
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assignment
a future interest) that is not valid at law but that would be upheld in a court of equity general assignment : an assignment for the benefit of creditors of all of a debtor's property to be
case
a civil or criminal suit or action [the judicial power shall extend to all s, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution "U.S. Constitution art. III"] see also controversy case at bar : a case being
chancellor
chancery: as a : the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain b : a judge in a court of equity in various states 2 a : a university president b : the chief executive officer in some state
clean hands doctrine
clean hands doctrine : a doctrine that originated in equity and that bars a plaintiff from seeking judicial relief regarding a matter in which he or she is
court of chancery
court of chancery often cap both Cs : court of equity
court of law
court that hears cases and decides them on the basis of statutes and common law compare court of equity
debt
for alimony] b : an obligation to pay or perform on another's claim [discharged the ] compare asset, equity NOTE: It is often up to the courts to decide what is or is not a debt under
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