| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,"... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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