If you have `equitable title' to some property, whatever it is, this is a recognition that your rights over that property will be enforced under the principles of equity. Of course, there is no longer a separate court with equitable jurisdiction, but the distinction is important because the rights of a person who holds property under a trust or not entirely equivalent to the owner of legal title.
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