{"id":15181,"date":"2018-02-20T02:48:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T02:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/equity-law\/"},"modified":"2018-02-20T02:48:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T02:48:25","slug":"equity-law","status":"publish","type":"entity","link":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/equity-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Equity (law)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- SEO Ultimate Plus (https:\/\/seoultimateplus.com) - Code Inserter module -->\n<script async>(function(s,u,m,o,j,v){j=u.createElement(m);v=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0];j.async=1;j.src=o;j.dataset.sumoSiteId='b68b392479b5981b8acf46565e9fe32a0734fc21a1f7c1e60121eaa6ca1a1c64';v.parentNode.insertBefore(j,v)})(window,document,'script','\/\/load.sumo.com\/');<\/script>\n<!-- \/SEO Ultimate Plus -->\n\n<p>In jurisdictions following the English common law tradition, equity is the set of legal principles that supplement strict rules of law where their application would operate harshly. In civil legal systems, broad &#8220;general clauses&#8221; allow judges to have similar leeway in applying the code. Equity is commonly said to &#8220;mitigate the rigor of common law&#8221;, allowing courts to use their discretion and apply justice in accordance with natural law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In jurisdictions following the English common law tradition, equity is the set of legal principles that supplement strict rules of law where their application would operate harshly. In civil legal systems, broad &#8220;general clauses&#8221; allow judges to have similar leeway<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/equity-law\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":15182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"wl_entities_gutenberg":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","spay_email":""},"categories":[],"wl_entity_type":[594],"_wl_alt_label":["equity"],"wl:entity_url":"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/equity_law","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entities\/15181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entities"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/entity"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entities\/15181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15181"},{"taxonomy":"wl_entity_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wl_entity_type?post=15181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}