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Quinte
Arm of Lake Ontario, SE Ontario. It extends for 75 mi (121 km) from its entrance near Amherst Island to Murray Canal at the W end. A resort area, it is a scenic, narrow bay with many small inlets. Among the major settlements around the bay are Trenton, Belleville, Deseronto, and Picton. The bay's name was derived from Kenté , an Indian village on the bay's W shore.


Bristol
City (pop., 1995: 401,000), SW England. Lying at the confluence of the Avon and Frome rivers, the city received its first charter in 1155. Long a center of commerce, it was the point of departure in 1497 of J. Cabot in his search for a route to Asia. During the 17th-18th cent. it prospered on the triangular slave trade between W. Africa and the W. Indian and Amer. plantation colonies. Though Bristol suffered a decline in trade in the early 19th cent., it soon rebounded with the coming of the railway. It suffered severe destruction from bombing in World War II, but was rebuilt. Today it is an important shipping center, especially for oil and food products.


Elista
City (pop., 1991 est.: 95,000), capital of Kalmykia republic, SW Russia. It was founded in 1865 and became a city in 1930. In 1944, when the Kalmyks were exiled by J. Stalin for their alleged collaboration with the Germans, the republic was dissolved and the city became known as Stepnoy. The name Elista was restored in 1957. Agriculture employs the most workers, though Elista also is a trade center for the area.


equity
Finance and accounting concept. Equity represents any of three separate but related values: the money value of a property or of an interest in a property in excess of claims or liens against it; a risk interest or ownership right in property; and the common stock of a corporation. In corporate finance, a basic equation holds that a company's total assets minus total liabilities equals total owners' equity.

Justice according to fairness, especially as distinguished from mechanical application of rules under common law. Courts of equity (also called chancery courts) arose in England in the 14th cent. in response to the increasingly strict rules of proof and other requirements of the courts of law. Equity provided remedies not available under the old writ system. Often these remedies involved something other than damages, such as specific performance of contractual obligations, enforcement of a trust, restitution of goods wrongfully acquired, imposition of an injunction, or the correction and cancellation of false or misleading documents. The equity courts eventually established their own precedents, rules, and doctrines and began to rival the law courts in power. The two systems were united in 1873. Courts of equity also developed early in U.S. history, but by the early 20th cent. most jurisdictions had combined them with courts of law into a single system. Modern courts apply both legal and equitable principles and offer ...

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