 ... 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
 | 1888 - 234 pages
...should make the standard for the measure the 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 with a chancellor's conscience." 3 Bl. Com., 432 — note. Chandler vs. Bennett. Furthermore, it would... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 720 pages
...the standard for the measure we call a font 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 in the chancellor's conscience. 1375 JohnSelden: Table Talk. Equity. ERROR An error is... | |
 | Frederick Andrew Inderwick - Great Britain - 1891 - 364 pages
...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 this would be ! One...another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'Tis the same thing in the chancellor's conscience."—Table Talk; Equity. 2 Hansard Parliamentary... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1891 - 1190 pages
...standard for the measnre we call a " foot " a Chancellor's foot; what an nncertain measnre wonld this he ! One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'T is the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience. Tahle Talk. Eqnity. Old friends are hest. King... | |
 | William Mack, William Benjamin Hale - Law - 1920 - 1290 pages
...foot the standard for the measure we call 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 as the chancellor's conscience." Table Talk Eq. [quot Cox v. Burgess, 139 Ky. 699,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 not known to the strict... | |
 | 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
...foot the standard for the measure we call 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 as the chancellor's conscience." Equity is now also the law. The case must fit... | |
 | New Jersey State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1919 - 168 pages
...intimate friends. Selden's * Ford's Writings of Jefferson, Vol. IX, p. 285n. t 3 Camp. Lives LC, p. 344. epithet suggests the disrespect he felt for the chancery...indifferent foot; it is the same thing in the chancellor's conscience." Table Talk. Selden's Works, p 2028 (ed. 1728). One of the early resolves of the Little... | |
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