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111equitable recoupment — Rule of the law which diminishes the right of a party invoking legal process to recover a debt, to the extent that he holds money or property of his debtor, to which he has no moral right, and it is ordinarily a defensive remedy going only to… …
112equitable assets — Rights or interests, which may be either real or personal, but require the aid of the court of equity for their subjection. Agee v Saunders, 127 Tenn 680, 157 SW 64. Lands or personalty in which a debtor has an equitable estate or interest, so… …
113equitable defense — A defense which recognized by courts of equity acting solely upon the inherent rules and principles of equity, altogether outside and independent of those rules and defenses which obtain in a court of law. Kelly v Hurt, 74 Mo 561, 565, 569. A… …
114equitable estate — An equity; an estate or interest in property recognized only in equity, especially a trust. McIlvaine v Smith, 42 Mo 45. See equitable title …
115equitable mortgage — An instrument not effective as a mortgage at law but regarded as a mortgage and given the effect of a mortgage in equity, the same as if a mortgage in due form had been executed, under various circumstances, such as the reservation of alien on… …
116equitable owner — See equitable title …
117equitable recoupment — A reduction of the claim affirmatively urged in an action so far as in reason and action it ought to be reduced. Gooch Mill & Elevator Co. v Commissioner (CA8) 133 F2d 131, revd on other grounds 320 US 418, 88 L Ed 139, 64 S Ct 184. The doctrine… …
118equitable right — A right which equity will protect, even though it is not a legal right or title. 27 Am J2d Eq § 63. A right recognized by a court of equity and enforceable only by a court of equity, except as statutes or modern rules of practice have wiped out… …
119equitable servitude — See equitable easements …
120equitable title — A title which is recognized as ownership in equity, whatever cognizance may be taken of it at law, for example, the title of the vendee under a contract for the sale of real estate. 56 Am J1st V & P § 356. A title which is not a legal title and… …
