equity to a settlement. A wife’s equitable right, arising when her husband sues in equity for the reduction of her equitable estate to his own possession, to have all or part of that estate settled upon herself and her children. — Also termed wife’s equity; wife’s settlement. [Cases: Husband and Wife 12.]
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equity to a settlement 妻子按衡平法享有的财产(→equity for a settlement)
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equity for a settlement 妻子按衡平法享有的财产 亦称wife’s equity。英国在1882年《已婚妇女财产法》〔Married Women’s Property Act〕以前，丈夫有权以妻子的名义享有她依法取得的财产，而在1873-1875年的《司法组织法》〔Judicature Acts〕以前，他是不能通过普通法诉讼取得这种权利的。如果由于丈夫起诉要求享有这些财产，或是妻子要求实现其衡平法上的权利，引起衡平法院的介入，则丈夫只能取得其中的部分财产，即扣除妻子按衡平法应享有的财产之后所余之财产。换言之，除非妻子明确表示放弃她按衡平法享有此项财产的权利，衡平法院将考虑他们之间的婚姻状况而决定丈夫能取得多少财产。通常的做法是将财产的一半授予妻子，另一半由丈夫取得，但有时妻子取得的比例会高些。如果丈夫已破产或抛弃了妻子、或因与他人有通奸行为而造成婚姻关系解除，也可将全部财产都授予妻子。在1882年法律之后，该词已失去意义，因为在那以后妻子可以占有和支配归自己所有的全部财产 。(→equity to a settlement)
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leverage, n. 1. Positional advantage; effectiveness. 2. The use of credit or borrowed funds (such as buying on margin) to improve one’s speculative ability and to increase an investment’s rate of return. 3. The advantage obtained from using credit or borrowed funds rather than equity capital. 4. The ratio between a corporation’s debt and its
confusion of boundaries. The branch of equity that deals with the settlement of disputed or uncertain real-property boundaries. [Cases: Boundaries 26. C.J.S. Boundaries §§ 106, 109.]
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