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Definition of Equitable
1. Adjective. Fair to all parties as dictated by reason and conscience. "An equitable distribution of gifts among the children"
Also: Fair, Just, Just, Impartial
Similar to: Fair, Honest, Evenhanded
Antonyms: Inequitable
Derivative terms: Justness
Definition of Equitable
1. a. Possessing or exhibiting equity; according to natural right or natural justice; marked by a due consideration for what is fair, unbiased, or impartial; just; as an equitable decision; an equitable distribution of an estate; equitable men.
Definition of Equitable
1. Adjective. Marked by or having equity. ¹
2. Adjective. Fair, just, or impartial. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Equitable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Equitable
Literary usage of Equitable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"That is said of a case, admitted to be that of an equitable estate: the attention
of the Court certainly not being drawn to the point in this way, ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1903)
"There must be a decision made somewhere regarding the rights asserted by the
selector of land under the act, before a complete equitable title to the land ..."
3. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Gardiner Hammond (1890)
"tion of the law is equitable: or that equitable interpretation is to be used in all
... The reason is that equitable interpretation always implies some ..."
4. A History of English Law by William Searle Holdsworth, John Burke (1903)
"To write fully of the equitable jurisdiction of the Chancellor would be to write
the history of equity itself. The briefest sketch only can be here ..."
5. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1910)
"49 S.'E. 003. being an equitable action, the ruling there made does not apply.
... No equitable relief is prayed. The statute of limitations does not apply ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The actions based on duress, fraud, and minority were purely equitable, ...
This may be considered as equitable or as growing out of quasi-contract. ..."
7. Jurisprudence, Or, The Theory of the Law by John William Salmond (1907)
"Legal and equitable Ownership. Closely connected but not identical with the
distinction between trust and beneficial ownership, is that between legal and ..."
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