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Definition

the value of an asset after all debts upon it are paid

Equity is also the noun form of equitable; i.e., to be fair and reasonable to everyone.

They bought the house without a 3% down payment, but now have negative equity.

After a full enquiry, they unanimously sign'd a report that they found the tax had been assess'd with perfect equity.
Benjamin Franklin -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Equity is the only acceptable goal.
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
He balked around for a while, said it was all a question of balancin' the equities or something, that I was in an interesting but tenuous position.
Harper Lee -- Go Set a Watchman
Let us resume our lives with equity and decency.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
I disagreed silently, but I realized how necessary it was for Moody to believe in the equity of Iranian justice.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
Bank loans and sweat equity.
David Baldacci -- Zero Day
I don't know how interesting it is, but before joining the Circle, I was in private equity, and before that I was part of a group that started—"
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
99:4 The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
The Bible -- Psalms
I've expended considerable equity on you.
Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil
"That," continued the cardinal, "arose not only from a feeling of natural equity, but likewise from a plan I have marked out with respect to you."
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
He had no doubts about the equity of the deal; his sanity, for serviceable legs.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
But they would join together to support their common interest and desire to uphold the equity and principals of the Constitution.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
It's just that I know where the equities lie.
Roger Zelazny -- Nine Princes in Amber
] And thou, his yokefellow of equity, Bench by his side:—[To Kent.
William Shakespeare -- King Lear
Therefore, I saw that here was a sort of interregnum in Providence; for its even-handed equity never could have so gross an injustice.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
Whether those pleading orators were persons educated in the general knowledge of equity, or only in provincial, national, and other local customs?
Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver's Travels
When the two parties are not private individuals, but States, an important political consideration is added to the same motive of equity.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
She sold the place off to Ole Jurgensen, sent their equity on down to them in California, didn't try to hold back their money.
David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars
An the Prince and Pointz be not two arrant cowards, there's no equity stirring: there's no more valour in that Pointz than in a wild duck.
William Shakespeare -- Henry IV, Part 1

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