 | 1849 - 492 pages
...is equity. It is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, of the chancellor's foot ; what an uncertain measure would...another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot ; it is the same thing in a chancellor's conscience.' " " I know the book well from which you have... | |
 | Ireland - 1856 - 706 pages
...as that is larger or narrower, so is Equity. "Pis all one as if they should make the standard of the measure a Chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure...foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'Tis the same thing with the Chancellor's conscience." f It is wonderful wh-it strange notions of Equity have been seriously... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 534 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. $ «' The discretion of a judge... | |
 | Economics - 1853 - 448 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... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...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. — Sclden. CHANGES. — If a great change is to be made in human affairs, the minds of men will be... | |
 | Eduard Fischel - Constitional law - 1853 - 620 pages
...Eunomu', 3rd. Dial., 565, custodem sigilh nostri privati. edit., 1822. || Pauli iii., 664. certain measure would this be ! One chancellor has a long...another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. It is the same with the chancellor's conscience." On the other hand, Lord Redesdale contends that the... | |
 | Joseph Story - Equity - 1853 - 890 pages
...Mitford, Plead. Eq. p. 4, note (b). See Heineccius De Edictis Praetorum, Lib. 1, cap. 6, § 13, 30. sure would this be ? One Chancellor has a long foot ; 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... | |
 | John Bouvier - Law - 1854 - 756 pages
...larger or narrower, so is equity. "Tis all one, as if they should make a 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, "(b) In modern times, however, courts of equity... | |
 | Industries - 1855 - 778 pages
...should make the standard for the measure the chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure this would bo! One chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. It is the same thing with the chancellor's conscience." ing all the books upon the subject, will find... | |
 | John Selden - Table-talk - 1856 - 324 pages
...narrower, so is Equity. "Pis 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...'Tis the same thing in the Chancellor's Conscience. 3. That saying, " Do as you would be done to," is often misunderstood, for 'tis not thus meant, that... | |
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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... 
