Terms Used In 16 Guam Code Ann. § 23101

  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
The Commissioner, after a public hearing, shall approve or issue a reasonable plan for the equitable apportionment, among insurers admitted to

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transact liability insurance, of those applicants for automobile bodily injury and property damage liability insurance who are in good faith entitled to but are unable to procure such insurance through ordinary methods. The Commissioner may approve or issue reasonable amendments to such plan if he first holds a public hearing to determine whether the amendments are in keeping with the intent and purpose of this Section. All such insurers shall subscribe to the plan and its amendments and, subject to § 23102, participate therein.

Notice of the public hearings required by this Section shall be published, not less than ten (10) days nor more than thirty (30) days prior to such hearings, in a newspaper of general circulation in Guam.

SOURCE: GC § 43540, added by P.L. 10-7.