Noun

(probities)

integrity

* 1748 , David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of morals , London: Oxford University Press, 1973, § 1,

… they can but bend our hearts to the love of probity and true honour, …

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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 .