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Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.

— Aristotle

If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.

— Christina Stead

We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime.

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Courts of equity make their decrees so as to arrive at the justice of the case without violating the rules of law.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse.

— Frederick Pollock

No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error…

— Benjamin Robbins Curtis

Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.

— Aaron Hill

Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law; and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the…

— Anonymous

This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.

— Jacques Delors

The only thing that can set aside a law as wrong is a better law, or an idea of a better law. And the…

— William Ernest Hocking

Wherever indeed a right of property is infringed for the general good, if the nature of the case admits of compensation, it ought to…

— Alexander Hamilton