Equity is as it were, an equality.
Æquum et bonum est lex legum.
That which is just and good is the law of laws.
Æquitas ex lege generaliter lata aliquid excipit.
Equity admits some exception of something from the law generally enacted.
Æquitas ignorantiæ opitulatur oscitantiæ non item.
Equity assists ignorance, but not in like manner carelessness.
Æquitas in eum qui vult summo jure agere, summum jus intendit.
Equity stretches the utmost point of law towards him who wishes to act according to the rigour of the law.
Æquitas in paribus causis paria jura desiderat.