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Roman legal concept

This article is about the legal concept. For the Canadian stock exchange, seeAequitas Neo.

Aequitas on the reverse of thisantoninianus struck underClaudius II. The goddess is holding her symbols, the balance and the cornucopia.

Aequitas (genitiveaequitatis) is theLatin concept of justice, equality, conformity, symmetry, or fairness.^[1] It is the origin of the English word "equity".^[2]^[3] Inancient Rome, it could refer to either the legal concept ofequity,^[4] or fairness between individuals.^[5]

Cicero definedaequitas as "tripartite": the first, he said, pertained to the gods above(ad superos deos) and is equivalent topietas, religious obligation; the second, to theManes, the underworld spirits or spirits of the dead, and wassanctitas, that which is sacred; and the third pertaining to human beings(homines) wasiustitia, "justice".^[6]

During theRoman Empire, Aequitas as a divinepersonification was part of thereligious propaganda of theemperor, under the nameAequitasAugusti,^[7] which also appeared on coins.^[8] She is depicted on coins holding acornucopia and abalance scale(libra),^[9] which was more often a symbol of "honest measure" to the Romans than of justice.^[10]

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^Jordan, Michael (2014-05-14).Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses. Infobase Publishing. p. 6.ISBN 978-1-4381-0985-5.
^"Equity | Origin and meaning of equity by Online Etymology Dictionary".Online Etymology Dictionary.Archived from the original on September 29, 2022.
^Jr, Daniel L. Rentfro (2019-10-29).The Law of Freedom: Justice and Mercy in the Practice of Law. Wipf and Stock Publishers.ISBN 978-1-5326-5102-1.
^Vit-Suzan, Ilan (2016-04-15).Architectural Heritage Revisited: A Holistic Engagement of its Tangible and Intangible Constituents. Routledge. p. 54.ISBN 978-1-317-17950-4.
^Quentin Skinner,Visions of Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2002), p. 49online. See also George Mousourakis,The Historical and Institutional Context of Roman Law (Ashgate, 2003), pp. 28, 32–35.
^Cicero,Topica 90, as cited byJerzy Linderski, "Q. Scipio Imperator," inImperium sine fine: T. Robert S. Broughton and the Roman Republic (Franz Steiner, 1996), p. 175.
^Adkins, Lesley; Adkins, Roy A.; Adkins, Both Professional Archaeologists Roy A. (2014-05-14).Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome. Infobase Publishing. p. 281.ISBN 978-0-8160-7482-2.
^J. Rufus Fears, "The Cult of Virtues and Roman Imperial Ideology,"Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt II.17.2 (1981), pp. 897–898, 900, 903–904.
^McIntyre, Gwynaeth; McCallum, Sarah (2019-01-24).Uncovering Anna Perenna: A Focused Study of Roman Myth and Culture. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 120.ISBN 978-1-350-04844-7.
^Linderski, "Q. Scipio Imperator," p. 175.

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