Glossary

"In English law, "equity" refers to one of the three fundamental sources of law (along with common law and statute law): the Court of Chancery can judge "in equity" and thereby protect rights that have not been recognized by ordinary courts (which have to follow the common law rigorously). The English term "equity" sometimes designates the classical philosophical notion (Aristotle´s epieikeia, and at other times a particular right, originally produced by a distinct court."

CASSIN, Barbara, Emily APTER, Jacques LEZRA a Michael WOOD, ed. Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon: A one-of-a-kind reference to the international vocabulary of the humanities. 1. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. ISBN 9780691138701, p. 555.