| Thomas Erskine Holland - Jurisprudence - 1886 - 402 pages
...Works, vii. p. 401, 3 Paget v. Gee, Amb. App. p. 810. * W»l worth t). Holt, 4 My. and Cr. 635. CHAP. v. foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot ; 'tis the ' same thing in the Chancellor's conscience1.' To this charge Lord Eldon replied in a judgment which traces the lines on which his own... | |
| Thomas Erskine Holland - Jurisprudence - 1888 - 448 pages
...Uses, Works, vii. p. 401. 5 Paget ». Gee, Amb. App. p. 810. 1 Walworth v. Holt, 4 My. snd Cr. 635. foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot; 'tis the on At. v. same thing in the Chancellor's conscience V To this charge Lord Eldon replied in a judgment... | |
| Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 724 pages
...narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one as if they shouM make the standard for the measure we call a foot a chancellor's foot: what an uncertain measure would...short foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'Tis the same in the chancellor's conscience. 1375 John Selden : Table Talk. Equity. ERROR An error is the more dangerous... | |
| William Mack, William Benjamin Hale - Law - 1920 - 1290 pages
...narrower, .so Is equity 'Tis all one as If they should make his foot the standard for the measure we call a chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would...foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'Tis the same thing as the chancellor's conscience." Table Talk Eq. [quot Cox v. Burgess, 139 Ky. 699, 703, 9fi SW 577].... | |
| Austin Wakeman Scott, Sidney Post Simpson - Civil procedure - 1946 - 998 pages
...A foot, to he the Chancellors Foot ; what an uncertain measure would this be ; One Chancellor ha's a long foot another A short foot a third an indifferent foot ; tis the same thing in the Chancellors Conscience." See also "Replication of a Serjaunte at the Lawcs of England" [circa 1525],... | |
| Bar Association of Arkansas - Bar associations - 1920 - 666 pages
...narrower, so is equity. It is all one, as if they should make the standard * a chancellor's foot. * * * 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." But new interests were pressing which were... | |
| Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 966 pages
...narrower, so is equity. "Tis all one as if they should make his foot the standard for the measure we call a chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would...foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'Tis the same thing as the chancellor's conscience." Equity is now also the law. The case must fit itself to the law of... | |
| New Jersey State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1919 - 168 pages
...they should make the standard of the measure we call a foot ; what an uncertain measure this would be. One chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot; it is the same thing in the chancellor's conscience." Table Talk. Selden's Works, p 2028 (ed. 1728).... | |
| North Dakota. Supreme Court, Hiram A. Libby, Robert Milligan Carothers, Robert Dimon Hoskins, Edgar Whittlesey Camp, John McDowell Cochrane, Ames Francis Wilbur, Joseph Coghlan, Edwin James Taylor - Court rules - 1922 - 712 pages
...narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make his foot the standard for the measure we call chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would...third an indifferent foot. 'Tis the same thing in Chancellor's conscience." I may, perhaps, be justified in using as my own the language of the great... | |
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