 | John Millar - Constitutional history - 1818 - 504 pages
...as if they " should make the standard for measure a " chancellor's foot. What an uncertain mea" sure would this be! One chancellor has a " long foot; another a short foot; a third, an " indifterent foot. Tis the same thing in the " chancellor's conscience*." The ingenious and acute... | |
 | John Payne Collier - Law - 1819 - 338 pages
...and as that is larger or narrower, so is Equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard for measure a Chancellor's foot: what an uncertain measure...'tis the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience." — Most likely, Lord Eldon has this sentence, or at least this sentiment, impressed upon his mind,... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - English essays - 1819 - 378 pages
...narrower, so is equity. It is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, a chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would...another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot : it is the same thing in the chancellor's conscience. 3. That saying, " Do as you would be done to,"... | |
 | John Selden - 1821 - 170 pages
...one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, a chancellor's foot ; whatau uncertain measure would this be ! One chancellor has...another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot : it is the same thing in the chancellor's conscience. 3. That saying, " Do as you would be done to,"... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 328 pages
...we call a foot, a chancellor's foot ; what an uncertain measure would this be ! One chancellor bas a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot : it is the same thing in the chancellor's conscience. 3. That saying, " Do as you would be done to,"... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1822 - 434 pages
...narrower, so is equity. It is all one as they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, a chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would...another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot; it is the same thing in the chancellor's conscience." When this high court of judicature, from which,... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1822 - 434 pages
...narrower, so is equity. It is all one as they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, a chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would...foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent fopt; it is the same thing in the chancellor's conscience.'}' When this high court of judicature, from... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1826 - 802 pages
...narrower, so is equity. It is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, a chancellor's foot ; what an uncertain measure would...another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot: it is the same thing in the chancellor's conscience." Now, if this was a fair description of the foundation... | |
 | George Moir - Anecdotes - 1827 - 466 pages
...narrower, so is equity. It is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, a chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would...another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot : it is the same thing ia the chancellor's conscience. 3. That saying, " Do as you would be done to,"... | |
 | Joseph Parkes - Courts - 1828 - 670 pages
...Kersey, Patch. as if they should make the & Geo- iii- 1765. CP standard for the measure, we call a foot, a Chancellor's foot, what an uncertain measure would...another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot: it is the same thing in the Chancellor's Conscience. Selden. Table Talk, art. Equity, 1660. The absolute... | |
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Equity is a roguish thing : for law we have a measure, know what to trust to ; equity is according to the conscience of him that is chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. "Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure... 
