 ... 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 we call a foot...  The Central Law Journal - Page 4271920Full view - About this book
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - English essays - 1819 - 378 pages
...standard for the measure we call a foot, a chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would this be ! One chancellor has a long foot, another a short...indifferent foot : it is the same thing in the chancellor's conscience. 3. That saying, " Do as you would be done to," is often misunderstood ; for it is not thus... | |
 | John Payne Collier - Law - 1819 - 338 pages
...they should make the standard for measure a Chancellor's foot: what an uncertain measure would this be. One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot : 'tis the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience." — Most likely, Lord Eldon has this sentence,... | |
 | John Selden - 1821 - 170 pages
...standard for the measure we call a foot, a chancellor's foot ; whatau uncertain measure would this be ! One chancellor has a long foot, another a short...indifferent foot : it is the same thing in the chancellor's conscience. 3. That saying, " Do as you would be done to," is often misunderstood ; for it is not thus... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 328 pages
...we call a foot, a chancellor's foot ; what an uncertain measure would this be ! One chancellor bas a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot : it is the same thing in the chancellor's conscience. 3. That saying, " Do as you would be done to," is often misunderstood ; for it is not thus... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1822 - 430 pages
...standard for the measure iwe call a foot, a chancellor's foot ; what an uncertain measure would this be ! One chancellor has a long foot, another a short...indifferent foot; it is the same thing in the chancellor's conscience." When this high court of judicature, from which, according to James's own statement in... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1822 - 434 pages
...standard for the measure we call a foot, a chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would this be! One chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent fopt; it is the same thing in the chancellor's conscience.'}' When this high court of judicature, from... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1826 - 802 pages
...standard for the measure we call a foot, a chancellor's foot ; what an uncertain measure would this be! One chancellor has a long foot, another a short...indifferent foot: it is the same thing in the chancellor's conscience." Now, if this was a fair description of the foundation on which the jurisdiction of the... | |
 | George Moir - Anecdotes - 1827 - 466 pages
...standard for the measure we call a foot, a chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would this be ! One chancellor has a long foot, another a short...a third an indifferent foot : it is the same thing ia the chancellor's conscience. 3. That saying, " Do as you would be done to," is often misunderstood... | |
 | Joseph Parkes - Courts - 1828 - 670 pages
...standard for the measure, we call a foot, a Chancellor's foot, what an uncertain measure would this be? One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short...indifferent foot: it is the same thing in the Chancellor's Conscience. Selden. Table Talk, art. Equity, 1660. The absolute necessity of rules and records of decisions... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...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 this would be ! One...another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot: 'tis the same thing in the chancellor's conscience. — Selden. CCLXXIV. It has been observed, that... | |
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