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Propriety vs Equity - What's the difference?

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Propriety is a related term of equity.


As nouns the difference between propriety and equity

is that propriety is (obsolete) the particular character or essence of someone or something; individuality while equity is value of some business.

propriety

English

Noun

  • (obsolete) The particular character or essence of someone or something; individuality.
  • (obsolete) A characteristic; an attribute.
  • (obsolete) More generally, something owned by someone; a possession.
  • * 1723 , Charles Walker, Memoirs of the Life of Sally Salisbury :
    • I was fearful of giving You a very sensible Disgust, in making You'' seem the ''Propriety'' of ''one Man'', when You know Yourself ''ordained'' for the Comfort and Refreshment of ''Multitudes .
  • The fact of possessing something; ownership.
  • Suitability, fitness; the quality of being appropriate.
  • * 1773 ,
    • I find such a pleasure, sir, in obeying your commands, that I take care to observe them without ever debating their propriety .
  • * 1850 ,
    • Now, if we may, with propriety', refer to the people one question, why may we not, with equal ' propriety , refer another?
  • Correctness in behaviour and morals; good manners, seemliness.
  • * 1811 , (Jane Austen), :
    • Elinor then ventured to doubt the propriety of her receiving such a present from a man so little, or at least so lately known to her.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 27 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992) , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=The neighbor is eventually able to sell her home despite Homer’s pants-less affronts to propriety and decency and Bart falls deeply and instantly for one of its new inhabitants, a tough but charming and funny tomboy girl named Laura (voiced by Sara Gilbert) with just the right combination of toughness and sweetness, granite and honey.}}

    Related terms

    * proper

    References

    * "Propriety" at Dictionary.com

    equity

    English

    (wikipedia equity)

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    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 .

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