equity

1. (law) Various related senses originating with the Court of Chancery in late Medieval EnglandExamples: "1800, Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon in Mayor, &c. of Southampton v. Graves (1800), 8 T. R. 592. A Court of equity knows its own province."; "A Court of equity interposes only according to conscience."; "Equity had been gradually shaping itself into a refined science which no human faculties could master without long and intense application."countableuncountable

2. (law) Various related senses originating with the Court of Chancery in late Medieval EnglandExamples: "...the mortgagor retains ‘equitable title’ or the ‘equity of redemption’….The equity of redemption permits the mortgagor to regain legal title to the mortgaged property upon satisfying the conditions of the mortgage..."; "The wife's equity does not, according to the adjudged cases, attach, except upon that part of her personal property in action which the husband cannot acquire without the assistance of a court of equity"countableuncountable

3. (law) Various related senses originating with the Court of Chancery in late Medieval EnglandEnglandcountableuncountable

4. (finance) Various senses related to net valueExamples: "I have a lot of equity in my house."countableuncountable

5. (finance) Various senses related to net valueExamples: "Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster."countableuncountable

6. (finance) Various senses related to net valuecountableuncountable