legal parity

The authorities did not intend to give peasants legal parity with the other estates of the realm, but to continue treating them as a separate estate.

Unlike Argentina, which has established a legal parity between the dollar and the peso, Brazil has opted for a unit of account, called the Real Value Unit, which is to indirectly track the dollar's value.

In a 2005 interview, Senator Akaka said that the bill, "creates a government-to-government relationship with the United States" as it provides a legal parity similar to that of native tribal governments in the contiguous states and Alaska.