Quote: equity is the equal distribution of justice to every person; the alternative is war

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Also, if a man be trusted to judge between man and man, it is a precept of the Law of Nature, that he deale Equally between them. For without that, the Controversies of men cannot be determined but by Warre. ... The observance of this law, from the equall distribution to each man, of that which in reason belongeth to hime, is called EQUITY, and ... distributive Justice   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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