Citations:æquity

Noun: archaic form of

 * 1853, Cotton Mather quoted in Magnalia Christi Americana, Silas Andrus & Son; Volume II of II, § 10, page #47:
 * He added, “ That among the first reformers, the most eminent were in their undistressed judgments, against the vestment ; and that when the canons of 1571 forbad the ‘ gray amice, or any other garment defiled with the like superstition,’ the æquity of that canon would exclude this also.”
 * 1863, John Austin and Sarah Austin, The Province of Jurisprudence Determined, John Murray; Volume II, Lecture XXXIII, page #274:
 * The jus gentium to which it was applied being distinguished by comparative fairness, æquity came to denote (in a secondary sense) impartiality.  And impartiality being good, æquity is often extended (as a vague name of praise) to any system of law, or to any principle of direct or judicial legislation, which, for any reason, is supposed to be worthy of commendation.
 * 1892, Edmund Verney quoted in Memoirs of the Verney Family, Longmans, Green, and Co.; Volume II of II, Chapter VII, page #143:
 * Sweete Brother mistake me not, I doe not write this that I thought it reasonable all this losse should lyght on you, but that you having by many degreese the greater share, soe in æquity should beare the greatest burden of it  ; I and my other two brothers have our swords to live by, though God knowes they yeeld us but poor livelyhoods in these times, yet while I have it and God blesse my lymbs and grant that I am not taken prisoner, I shall endeavour hereafter to keepe lyfe and soule togeather ass well ass I can by it.