From Latin aequitās 'fairness,' from aequus 'equal,' spanning legal fairness and financial ownership.
The quality of being fair and impartial, or the value of shares issued by a company.
From Old French equité, from Latin aequitātem 'equality, fairness, symmetry,' from aequus 'even, level, equal.' In English law, equity developed as a parallel system to common law, administered by the Court of Chancery, to provide remedies where strict law was inadequate. Key roots: *h₂eyk- (Proto-Indo-European: "even, equal").