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Equity can refer to:

General

• Equity (law), a branch of jurisprudence in common law jurisdictions.

This is really a term of English law and is used when someone is taking unfair advantage of a rule, usually in bad faith. There are various rules of equity, the best known being “He who comes to equity must do so with clean hands”- in other words, if you are trying to obtain a legal remedy against someone who has done something wrong to you, you must have behaved honestly and fairly yourself.

• In many political and legal systems, a concept encompassing ideals of justice (fairness) and/or equality
• Equalism, a philosophy promoting the equality of sexes, genders, and races
• In poker strategy, the probability of winning a poker hand
• Intergenerational equity, equality and fairness in relationships between people of different ages

Business and Economics

• Stock, common or preferred financial stock
• Ownership equity, the value of an ownership interest in property
• Shareholders' equity, the owners' residual interest in the assets of an enterprise after deducting all its liabilities
• Equity investment
• Equity (economics), the study of fairness in economics
• Private equity, stock in a privately held company
• Brand equity, in marketing, the value built up in a brand

Organizations

The word equity is also used in the names of the following organizations:

• Actors' Equity Association, Labor union of actors and stage managers in the United States.
• Equity (trade union) (formerly British Actors' Equity Association), an association in the United Kingdom
• Canadian Actors' Equity Association, an association in Canada
• Equity Office Properties Trust, a company that owns and manages office buildings in the United States
• Forum Party of Alberta, also known as the Equity Party, a defunct political party from Alberta, Canada
• Equity Bank Limited, a bank based in Kenya
• Equity Music Group, a country music record label

See also

• Justice (fairness)
• Equality
• Equity in income of affiliates

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