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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... "
The Works of the Honourable James Wilson, L. L. D.: Late One of the ... - Page 265
by James Wilson - 1804
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 1

Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...foot the standard for the measure, we call a chancellor's foot, what an uncertain measure this would be ! One chancellor has a long foot, another a short...'tis the same thing in the chancellor's conscience. — Selden. CCLXXIV. It has been observed, that not one favourite of the muses has ever been able to...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 1

John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...foot the standard for the measure, we call a chancellor's foot, what an uncertain measure this would be ! One chancellor has a long foot, another a short...'tis the same thing in the chancellor's conscience. — Selden. CCLXXIV. It has been observed, that not one favourite of the muses has ever been able to...
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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1837 - 1014 pages
...they should make the standard of measure a chancellor's foot ; what an uncertain measure would tins be ! One chancellor has a long foot ; another a short foot ; a third ao indifferent foot — 'tis the same thing with a chancellor's conscience." Now, as chancellors and...
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Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Chancery of the State of ..., Volume 8

New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1854 - 956 pages
...larger, or narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one, as if they should make the standard for the measure the Chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would...another a short foot — a third, an indifferent foot. It is the same thing with the Chancellor's •conscience." But this is not so. The principles upon...
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An address to ... earl Stanhope, on ... a survey of Chevening park made ...

Abraham Barham - 1831 - 222 pages
...or doubt whatever is, " that IF you increase by a legitimate measure the value of the currency, you Chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would...'tis the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience." — TABLE TALK, Equity. Perchance "Equity in Law" is still a deceptive thing, yet if Lord Eldon decided...
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The Library of the Old English Prose Writers ...: Sir Philip Sidney's ...

English literature - 1831 - 368 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,"...
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The Schoolmaster, and Edinburgh Weekly Magazine, Volumes 1-2

Scottish periodicals - 1832 - 952 pages
...narrower, so is equity. 'Ti» 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.» 'Tie the fame thing in the Chancellor's conscience. f-. CEBEJIONY keeps up all things ; 'tis like a...
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The Science of Legal Judgment: A Treatise Designed to Show the Materials ...

James Ram - Judgments - 1835 - 162 pages
...that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one, as if they should make the standard for the measure, a chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure...indifferent foot: 'tis the same thing in the chancellor's conscience."(o) This however is, in an extreme degree, a wrong view of the matter. In the absence of...
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Materials for thinking, extracted from the works of ancient and modern ...

1837 - 352 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. — Sclden . 373. Natural Loveliness. — "Is...
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Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence: As Administered in England ..., Volume 1

Joseph Story - Equity - 1839 - 658 pages
...p. 4, note (A). See Heineccius De Edictis Prtetorum, Lih. 1, cap. 6, § 13, 30. for the measure the Chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would...another a short foot; a third an indifferent foot. It is the same thing with the Chancellor's conscience." 1 And notions of this sort were, in former...
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