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One who expounds or explains an interpreter...
Equity
Equity [fr. 'quitas, Lat.] There is some confusion as to the meaning of Equity; as a scheme of jurispru-dence distinct from Law 'Equity' is an equivocal term; the difficulty lies in drawing the dividing lines between the several senses in which it is used. They may be distinguished thus:-(1) Taken broadly and philosophically, Equity means to do to all men as we would they should do unto us-by the Justinian Pandects, honeste vivere, alterum non l'dere, suum cuique tribuere. It is clear that human tribunals cannot cope with so wide a range or duties.(2) Taken in a less universal sense, Equity is used in contradistinction to strict law. This is Moral Equity, which should be the genius of every kind of human jurisprudence; since it expounds and limits the language of the positive laws, and construes them not according to their strict letter, but rather in their reasonable and benignant spirit.Aristotle, in his discussion concerning Moral Equity, Ethics Eud., b.v., c. x, calls it the correc...
Expositor
One who or that which expounds or explains an expounder a commentator...
Explainer
One who explains an expounder or expositor a commentator an interpreter...
Explanation
The act of explaining expounding or interpreting the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible as the explanation of a passage in Scripture or of a contract or treaty...
Explicator
One who unfolds or explains an expounder an explainer...
Expone
To expound to explain also to expose to imperil...
exposit
to set forth reasons to explain or expound...
Expound
To lay open to expose to view to examine...
Hermeneutic
Unfolding the signification of or pertaining to interpretation exegetical explanatory as hermeneutic theology or the art of expounding the Scriptures a hermeneutic phrase...
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