 | Ireland - 1856 - 1492 pages
...as that is larger or narrower, so is Equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard of the measure a Chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure...short foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'Tis the same thinf* with the Chancellor's conscience." f It is wonderful wh it strange notion? of Equity hare been... | |
 | Great Britain - 1856 - 600 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. — Selden. HUME'S PHILOSOPHY AND STYLE. THE... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 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... | |
 | Peter Oliver - Massachusetts - 1856 - 528 pages
...of the chancellor, and the conscience of the chancellor is as uncertain as the length of his foot. One chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot ; it is the same with their consciences. This quaint old sarcasm of a common lawyer might have been... | |
 | John Bate (mechanician.) - 1857 - 118 pages
...that is narrower or larger, so is equity. 'Tis all one, as if they should make the standard for the measure a chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure...another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. It is the same thing with the chancellor's conscience. " — SELDEN'S Table Talh. Equity, in its true... | |
 | Chronology, Historical - 1857 - 346 pages
...should make the standard for the measure a chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would this beI One chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot; 'tis the same thins with the chancellor's conscience." The whole theory, says Poison, of a court of equity may be... | |
 | Law - 1858 - 642 pages
...for the measure that we call a foot — a chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure, he exclaims, would this be ! One chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot, &o. It was, he said, the same thing of the chancellor's conscience. Such might have been equity at... | |
 | Homersham Cox - Administrative law - 1863 - 862 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...another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. It is the same thing with the Chancellor's conscience " (b) . This reproach, if it were well founded... | |
 | Homersham Cox - Constitutional law - 1863 - 860 pages
...should make the standard for the measure a Chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would this be 1 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 "(b). This reproach, if it were well founded... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 pages
...narrower, so is Equity. 'Tis 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. That saying, Do as you would be done to, is often misunderstood, for 'tis not thus meant, that I a... | |
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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... 
