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quence) to exercife the fame jurifdiCtion which might 
have been exercifed at law, if the witnelfes could proba¬ 
bly attend. 
E'QjJITY of REDEMPTION, on mortgages. If 
where money is due on a mortgage, the mortgagee isde- 
firous to bar the equity of redemption, he may oblige the 
mortgager either to pay the money or to be foreclofed of 
his equity ; which is done by proceedings in the court of 
chancery. But the chancery cannot Ihorten the time of 
payment-of the mortgage money, where it is limited by 
exprefs covenant; though it may lengthen it: and then 
upon non-payment, the practice is to foreclofe the equity 
of redemption of the mortgagor. 2 Vent. 364. To fore¬ 
clofe the equity, a bill in chancery is exhibited ; to 
which an anfwer is put in, and a decree being obtained, 
a mailer in chancery is to certify what is due for princi¬ 
pal, intereft, and cofts, which is to be paid at a time pre¬ 
fixed by the decree, whereupon the premifes are to be re¬ 
conveyed to the mortgagor; or, in default of payment, 
the mortgagor is ordered to be foreclofed from all equity 
of redemption, and to convey the premifes abfolutely to 
the mortgagee. 
A fine or non-claim will bar equity of redemption : but 
in a common mortgage, a covenant to reftrain it fliall not 
be regarded in chancery. 2Vent. 365. If the condition 
of a mortgage is, that the mortgagor only (hould redeem 
during life, or that he and the heirs of his body (hall do 
it ; yet the general heir (hall have the equity of redemp¬ 
tion, for if the principal and intereft be offered, the land 
is free. 1 Vern. 30, 190. And it is held, though a bond be 
conditioned, that if the money be not paid at fitch a time, 
then for a further fum the mortgagee (hall have the land 
abfolutely, as a purchafor, &c. in fuch cafe a man may 
alfo redeem. See the article Mortgage. 
EQUI'VALENCE, or Equivalency, f. yaquiis and 
valeo, Lat.] Equality of power or worth.—Civil caufes 
are equivalent unto criminal caufes, but this equivalency 
only refpedts the careful and diligent admilfion of proofs. 
Ay life. 
To EQUI'VALENCE, v. a. To equiponderate; to be 
equal to.—Whether the trangreffion of Eve feducing did 
not exceed Adam feduced, or whether the refiftibiiity of 
his reafon did not equivalence the facility of her feduCtion, 
we fliall refer to fchoolmen. Brown. 
EQJJl'VALENT, adj. [aquus and valens, Lat.] Equal 
in value. Equal in any excellence : 
No fair to thine 
Equivalent, or fecond ! which compell’d 
Me thus, though importune perhaps, to come 
And gaze, and v.orfliip thee. Milton. 
Equal in force or power: 
The dread of Ifrael’s foes, who, with a ftrength 
Equivalent to angels, walk’d their ftreets, 
None offering fight. . Agonijles, 
Of the fame cogency or weight.—The confideration of 
public utility is, by very good advice, judged at the lead: 
the equivalent to the eafier kind of necefiity. Hooker. —Of 
the fame import or meaning.—The ufe of the word mi- 
nifter is brought down to the literal fignification of it, a 
i’ervant; for now to ferve and to minifter, fervile and mi- 
nifierial, are terms equivalent .. South. 
EQJJI'VALENT, f. A thing of the fame weight, dig¬ 
nity, or value.—Fancy a regular obedience to one law will 
be a full equivalent for their breach of another. Rogers. 
The flave without a raiifom fliall be fent ; 
It refts for you to make th’ equivalent. Dryden. 
EQUI'VOCAL, adj. [ aquivocus , Lat.] Of doubtful 
fignification; meaning different things, handing for dif¬ 
ferent notions.—Words of different fignifications, taken 
in general, are of an equivocal fenfe; but being confidered 
with all their particular circumftances,. they have their 
lenfe reffrained. Stillingfleet. —Uncertain; doubtful; hap¬ 
pening different ways,—There is no fuch thing as equi- 
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vocal or fpontaneous generation ; but all animals are ge¬ 
nerated by animal parents of the fame fpecies with them- 
felves. Ray. 
Thofe half-learn’d witlings, num’rous in our ifle, 
As half-form’d infeCts on the banks of Nile ; 
Unfinifli’d things, one knows not what to call, 
Their generation’s fo equivocal. Pope. 
EQUI'VOCAL, f. Ambiguity ; word of doubtful 
meaning.—Shall two or three wretched equivocals have 
the force to corrupt us? Dennis. 
EQJUI'VOCALLY, adv. Ambiguoufly ; in a doubtful 
or double fenfe.—Words abftraCted from their proper 
fenfe and fignification, lofe the nature of words, and are 
only equivocally fo called. South, —By uncertain or irregular 
birth ; by equivocal generation ; by generation out of the 
ffated order.—No infeCt or animal did ever proceed equi¬ 
vocally from putrefaction, unlefs in miraculous cafes ; as 
in Egypt by the divine judgments. Bentley. 
EQUI'VOCALNESS, f. Ambiguity; double mean¬ 
ing.—Diftinguifh the equivocalnefs or laflitude of the word, 
and then point out that determinate part which is the 
ground of my demonftration. Norris. 
To EQUI'VOCATE, v. n. [aquivocatio , Lat.] To ufe 
words of double meaning ; to ufe ambiguous expreffions ; 
to mean one thing and exprefs another.—-"Not only Jefuits 
can equivocate. Dryden. 
My foul difdain’d a promife ;— 
— But yet your falfe equivocating tongue. 
Your looks, your eyes, yourev’ry motion promis’d: 
But you are ripe in frauds, and learn’d in fallhoods. Smith. 
EQU 1 VOCA'TION,yi [ aquivocatio , Lat.] Ambiguity 
of fpeech ; double meaning.—Reproof is eafily misap¬ 
plied, and through equivocation wrefted. Hooker. 
I pull in refolution, and begin 
To doubt the equivocation of the fiend 
That lies like truth. Shakefpeare. 
EQUIVOCA'TOR, f. One who ufes ambiguous lan¬ 
guage; one who ufes mental refervation.—Here’s an equi- 
vocator, that could fwear in both the feales againft either 
fcale; yet could not equivocate to heaven. Shakefpeare. 
EQUO'REAN, adj. [from the Lat. aquor, the fea.] 
Belonging to the fea. Scott. 
EQUULE'US, Equiculus, and E«uus Minor, 
Equi Sectio, the horfe's head, one of the forty-eight old 
conftellutions in the northern hemifphere. Its liars, in 
Ptolomy’s catalogue, are four, in Tycho’s four, in Heve- 
lius’s fix, and in Flamfteed’s ten. 
EQUULE'US, f. a kind of rack for extorting confef- 
fions, at firft chiefly praCtifed on criminals, but after¬ 
wards made ufe of againft the Chriftians. It w r as made 
of wood, having holes at certain diftances, with a ferew, 
by which the criminal was ftretched to the third, fome- 
times to the fourth or fifth, holes, his arms and legs being 
fnftened on the equuleus with cords ; and thus was hoifted 
aloft, and extended in fuch a manner, that all his bones 
were diflocated. In this ftate red-hot plates were applied 
to his body, and he was goaded in the fides with an in- 
ftrument called ungula. 
EQjUUS, J'. [from equus, Lat. equal, quod equi pares 
folent quadrigis jungi, becaufe they are tiled to be yoked to¬ 
gether.] The Horse ; in zoology, a genus of quadru¬ 
peds belonging to the order of belluae. This genus com¬ 
prehends fix fpecies, viz. the horl’e, the dftiiggetai or wild 
mule, the afs, the zebra, the quagga, and the bifulcus, or 
cloven-footed horfe of Chili. The generic characters 
are: fix ereCt and parallel fore-teeth in the upper jaw, 
and fix fomewhat more prominent ones in the under jaw ; 
tulks or dog-teeth folitary, or remote from the reft ; feet, 
in the firft five fpecies, confift of an undivided hoof. In 
the males, the teats are fituated on the glans penis ; and 
this genus has the lingular properties of voluntary ereCtion, 
and of breathing only through the noftrils, and not 
through the mouth, 
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