equality
    n 1: the quality of being the same in quantity or measure or
         value or status [ant: inequality]
    2: a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally
       balanced; "on a par with the best" [syn: equality,
       equivalence, equation, par]

Equality \E*qual"i*ty\, n.; pl. Equalities. [L. aequalitas,
   fr. aequalis equal. See Equal.]
   1. The condition or quality of being equal; agreement in
      quantity or degree as compared; likeness in bulk, value,
      rank, properties, etc.; as, the equality of two bodies in
      length or thickness; an equality of rights.
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            A footing of equality with nobles.    --Macaulay.
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   2. Sameness in state or continued course; evenness;
      uniformity; as, an equality of temper or constitution.
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   3. Evenness; uniformity; as, an equality of surface.
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   4. (Math.) Exact agreement between two expressions or
      magnitudes with respect to quantity; -- denoted by the
      symbol =; thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same
      number and kind of units of measure that x does.
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   Confessional equality. See under Confessional.
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EQUALITY. Possessing the same rights, and being liable to the same duties. 
See 1 Toull. No. l70, 193, Int. 
     2. Persons are all equal before the law, whatever adventitious 
advantages some may possess over others. All persons are protected by the 
law, and obedience to it is required from all. 
     3. Judges in court, while exercising their functions, are all upon an 
equality, it being a rule that inter pares non est potestas; a judge cannot, 
therefore, punish another judge of the same court for using any expression 
in court, although the words used might have been a contempt in any other 
person. Bac. Ab., Of the court of sessions, of justices of the peace. 
     4. In contracts the law presumes the parties act upon a perfect 
equality; when, therefore, one party uses any fraud or deceit to destroy 
this equality, the party grieved may avoid the contract. In case of a grant 
to two or more persons jointly, without designating what each takes, they 
are presumed to take in equal proportion. 4 Day, 395. 
     5. It is a maxim, that when the equity of the parties is equal, the law 
must prevail. 3 Call, R. 259. And that, as between different creditors, 
equality is equity. 4 Bouv. Inst. n. 3725; 1 Page, R. 181. See Kames on Eq. 
75. Vide Deceit; Fraud. 

Equality, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
   Population (2000):    721
   Housing Units (2000): 333
   Land area (2000):     0.900939 sq. miles (2.333421 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.900939 sq. miles (2.333421 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            24348
   Located within:       Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
   Location:             37.736472 N, 88.344473 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     62934
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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