Noun

value of some business.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=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.}}

(legal) A legal that deals with remedies other than (l) relief, such as injunctions, divorces and similar actions.

* Macaulay

Equity had been gradually shaping itself into a refined science which no human faculties could master without long and intense application.

(legal) of property minus liens or other (l).

(legal) An equitable claim; an equity of redemption.

an equity''' to a settlement, or wife's '''equity , etc.

* Kent

I consider the wife's equity to be too well settled to be shaken.

(accounting) Ownership interest in a company as determined by subtracting liabilities from (l).

Justice, impartiality or fairness.

* Tillotson

Christianity secures both the private interests of men and the public peace, enforcing all justice and equity .

Noun

Straightness; the state or quality of having a constant direction and not being crooked or bent.

* 2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 98:

A consciousness of rectitude can be a terrible thing, and in those days I didn't just think that I was right: I thought that “we” (our group of International Socialists in particular) were being damn well proved right.

Conformity to the rules prescribed for moral conduct; (moral) uprightness, virtue.

* 1776 , , et al.'', ''Declaration of Independence , 4 Jul.:

We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by authority of the good people of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be Free and Independent States.