| Henry Maddock - Common law - 1820 - 788 pages
...conscious it was satisfied, or intended to relinquish it (a-). " A Court of Equity," says Lord Camden, " which is never active in relief against conscience...convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands, where the party has slept upon his right, and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can (r)... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Chancery, William Brown - Equity - 1820 - 508 pages
...years is the period. £<lwnnls v. Carrol, (5 Bro. PC 466.) is decisive, and not now open to argument. A court of equity which is never active in relief against conscience, or public comenicncc, has always refused its aid to stale demands, where the party has slept upon hi> right and... | |
| John Joseph Powell - Mortgages - 1822 - 648 pages
...Master of the RoUs has recently recognized and acted upon it. "A court of equity," says Lord Camden, " which is never active in relief against conscience...convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands, where the party has slept upon his right, and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Chancery - Equity - 1827 - 858 pages
...would be sufficient to dismiss the bill. In Smith v. Clay, Amb.64-5. SBro. CC 639, Lord Camden says, " A Court " of Equity, which is never active in relief...convenience, has always refused its aid to stale " demands, where the party has slept upon his right and " acquiesced for a great length of time.*' MASTER of the... | |
| John Hubbersty Mathews - Personal property - 1827 - 528 pages
...easy. Twenty years is the period. Edwards v. Carrol (a) is decisive, and now not open to argument. A court of equity which is never active in relief...convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands, where the party has slept upon his right and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call... | |
| New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 734 pages
...inequitable to grant the relief hedemands. Lord Camden, in Smith v. Clay, 3 BCC *639, *640, note, says : "A court of equity which is never active in relief...refused its aid, to stale demands, when the party slept upon his right, and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this court... | |
| New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 748 pages
...specific performance." Lord Camden, at an early day, Johnson v. Somerville. stated the general doctrine as follows : "A court of equity, which is never active...convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands where the party has slept upon his rights or acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call... | |
| New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 690 pages
...been guilty of great delay. He said ; "A court of equity, which. Southern National Bank r. Darling. is never active in relief against conscience or public...convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands where the party has slept upon his rights or acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call... | |
| New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 924 pages
...statutable bar, refused relief to stale demands. More than one hundred years ago Lord Camden said : 'A court of equity, which is never active in relief against conscience or the public convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands where tl»e party has slept upon... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1838 - 486 pages
...adopt the principles laid down by Lord Camden in Smith v. Clay, in a note to Delorame v. Browne (15), "A court of equity, which is never active in relief...convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands, (15) 3 Bro. CC 639. where the party has slept upon his right, and acquiesced for a great length of... | |
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