In law, an equitable interest is an "interest held by virtue of an equitable title (a title that indicates a beneficial interest in property and that...

a piece of property in which a party may own either a legal interest or equitable interest. The rights in the bundle may be separated and held by different...

Due to his equitable interest in the outcome of the transaction, the buyer who suffers a breach may be entitled to the equitable remedy of specific performance...

legal title to property, while the beneficiary is said to have an equitable interest in the property. Estate tax Estate tax in the United States Estate...

Equitable Bank is a Canadian bank that specializes in residential and commercial real estate lending, as well as personal banking through its digital...

The Equitable Life Assurance Society (Equitable Life), founded in 1762, is a life insurance company in the United Kingdom. The world's oldest mutual insurer...

Equitable remedies are judicial remedies developed by courts of equity from about the time of Henry VIII to provide more flexible responses to changing...

money. The rights may be vested or contingent, and may include an equitable interest. Mortgages and loans are relatively straightforward and amenable to...

Division of property, also known as equitable distribution, is a judicial division of property rights and obligations between spouses during divorce....

plaintiff a proprietary interest in the land subject to the dispute. It may instead make an order that the plaintiff receive equitable compensation. Section...

countries also recognize a slightly anomalous form of security interest called an "equitable lien", which arises in certain rare instances. Despite their...

also refer to: Equitable interest, which is a legal interest that may be enforced by equitable remedies Estate in land, a possessory interest in real property...

one person and the equitable interest in another, the owner of the legal interest holds it on trust for the owner of the equitable title: "the separation...

Equitable conversion is a doctrine of the law of real property under which a purchaser of real property becomes the equitable owner of title to the property...

this is secured by way of an equitable lien or first charge over the trust assets. This is a proprietary security interest. Trust creditors (that is, persons...

Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989. When disposing of an equitable interest, the Law of Property Act 1925 must also be followed; much of the case...

competing equitable claims to the same asset. The rule broadly provides that where the equitable owner of an asset purports to dispose of his equitable interest...

In trust law, a constructive trust is an equitable remedy imposed by a court to benefit a party that has been wrongfully deprived of its rights due to...

Property Act 1925. A fee tail can still exist in England and Wales as an equitable interest, behind a strict settlement; the legal estate is vested in the current...

An injunction is an equitable remedy in the form of a special court order that compels a party to do or refrain from specific acts. It was developed by...

legal source. An example of an equitable right could be seen in Land law, where mention is made of a beneficial interest i.e. vested interests in an estate...

law case, concerning the presumption of advancement and a spouse's equitable interest in the matrimonial home. In Pettitt, the wife had used her own money...

in terms of conventional equitable doctrine". A Quistclose trust is a method by which a creditor can hold a security interest in loans, through inserting...

resulting trust would arise where equitable interest had not successfully been divested, because an equitable interest cannot merely hang, unattached to...

conscience of a legal owner is affected meaning they cannot deny the equitable interest of the beneficiary for whom they consequently hold the property as...

further recipient of the property. Equitable tracing, on the other hand, relies on the claimant having an equitable interest in the property, and can succeed...

Specific performance is an equitable remedy in the law of contract, in which a court issues an order requiring a party to perform a specific act, such...

Automatic resulting trusts arise from a "gap" in the equitable title of property. The equitable maxim "equity abhors a vacuum" is followed: it is against...

proprietary interest in the charged asset. If a charge includes this right (such as private sale by a receiver), it is really an equitable mortgage (sometimes...

liability. It concerned whether an oral instruction to transfer an equitable interest in shares complied with the writing requirement under Law of Property...