 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1846 - 704 pages
...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 this be? One...a long foot ; another, a short foot ; a third, an indillerent foot : it is the same thing in the chancellor,s conscience." — Table TWA. the answer... | |
 | Europe - Europe - 1847 - 202 pages
...narrower, so is equity. It is all one, as if they should make the standard for the measure, or 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." But since the times to which Selden refers,... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1848 - 702 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."— Table Talk. INTRODUCTION. the answer is,... | |
 | Political science - 1848 - 476 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." This uncertainty has however long ceased in... | |
 | Richard Stockton Field - Courts - 1849 - 336 pages
...which was decreed for him with costs. if they should make the standard of 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's Table-Talk. In fact, it was not... | |
 | Richard Stockton Field - Courts - 1849 - 336 pages
...narrower, DO if equity. It is all one as if they should make the standard of 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's Table-Talk. In fact, it was not... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - Commerce - 1849 - 714 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 with the Chancellor's conscience." And again, if the Courts of Equity recognize the... | |
 | William Forsyth - Law - 1849 - 538 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.' And notions of this sort were, in former ages,... | |
 | William Forsyth - Law - 1849 - 528 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.' And notions of this sort were, in former ages,... | |
 | Commerce - 1849 - 708 pages
...larger or narrower, so is equity. Tie 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 та the same with the Chancellor's conscience." And again, if the Courts of Equity recognize the... | |
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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... 
