Equity, justice and law
Equity, justice and law

Summary/Abstract: Although an absolute separation between law and morality is not possible, we can assert that law and ethics approach in different manner notions such as equity, righteousness and justice. It is precisely this different approach, the different acceptations of these notions, that permits us to analyze the principle of equity and justice as a law principle and not only as an ethical one. “Equity” may be considered as both an ethical and juridical principle, which is underlying the social relations in the spirit of righteousness, equality and justice. “Justice” also has a twofold meaning: jurisdictional authorities from a state, an ensemble of laws and courts and, the second meaning, an ideal of impartiality and equity. Once such principles are consecrated by a rule of law, they will act, they will produce specific effects, inside the frame of juridical systems, giving us thus the possibility to analyze them from a juridical perspective.

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