 Equity (law)

In jurisdictions following the English common law system, equity is the body of law which was developed in the English Court of Chancery and which is now administered concurrently with the common law.The use of the word "equity" in other law systems is outside the topic of by this article; let it just be mentioned that under Napoleonic law, the civil judge, judging "en droit et en équité" (in [written] law and in equity) must "say the law" even if there is no appropriate or conclusive written law applying to the case brought before him.