Equity considers the matter itself, less anxious about the form and circumstances.
Æquitas sequitur legem.
Equity follows or attends the law.
Æquitas supervacua odit.
Equity hates superfluous matters.
Æquitas uxoribus, liberis, creditoribus maxime favet.
Equity is favourable to wives, children, and chiefly to creditors.
Æquitas veritatis filia, bonitatis et justitiæ soror.
Equity is the daughter of truth, and the sister of goodness and justice.
Æquitas vult domum quod alteri obsit ex causa æque favorabili esse ac id quod aufert.