Editing Maxims of equity (section)

===Between equal equities the first in order of time shall prevail===
Comparing timing with legal and equitable claims, "[u]nder the common law, an earlier claim had priority over a later claim if both claims were legal claims . . . The same was true if both claims were equitable . . . [order in time] only mattered under the common law where [one party] had a legal claim and a competing earlier claim to the property was purely equitable."{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}