 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...  Table Talk: Being the Discourses - 45. lappuseautors: John Selden - 1786 - 163 lapasPilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 lapas
...roguish thing ; for law we have a measure . . . (but) equity is according to the conscience of him who He doth bestride the narrow world / Like a bfldtn. Equity judges with lenity, laws with severity. Siuft. Equivocation is half way to lying, and... | |
 | William Albert Keener - 1894 - 908 lapas
...court varies like the Chancellor's foot.4 1 2 Atk. 342. 5 Amb. 737. J Plin. Episi. 1. 1, ep. 1. 4 " Equity is a roguish thing: for law we have a measure,...Chancellor, and as that is larger or 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... | |
 | Austin Wakeman Scott, Sidney Post Simpson - 1946 - 998 lapas
...practice] of the Court. Equity is A Roguish thing, for Law wee have a measure know what to trust too. Equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower soe is equity. Tis all one as if they should make the Standard for the niasure wee call A foot, to... | |
 | New Jersey State Bar Association - 1919 - 168 lapas
...Camp. Lives LC, p. 344. epithet suggests the disrespect he felt for the chancery rulings when he says: "Equity is a roguish thing; for law we have a measure...— know what to trust to ; equity is according to him that is chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. It is all one as if they should... | |
 | 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 - 1922 - 712 lapas
...law as so administered said : "Equity is a roguish thing. For law we have a measure, and know what we trust to. Equity is according to the conscience of...; and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make his foot the standard for the measure we call chancellor's foot.... | |
 | 1890 - 838 lapas
...Selden, a noted English law writer, aptly illustrated this when he said : " For law we have a measure and know what to trust to ; equity is according to the...of him that is chancellor ; and as that is larger and narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure a chancellor's... | |
 | 1885 - 318 lapas
...bitterly, and spoke again to me in words that seemed familiar : "Equity is a roguish thing," it sneered, ' for law we have a measure, know what to trust to ;...chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is Equity. 'Tis all one as if - " Brother, thou errest," she said. " He who wrote those words was not all wise.... | |
 | Academie De Droit International De La Ha - 1968 - 878 lapas
...connue des juristes anglais et citée maintes fois : « Equity is a roguish thing; for law we hâve a measure, know what to trust, to equity is according to the conscience of him that is chancelier, and that is larger or narrower so is equity. Tis ail one, as if they should make the standard... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - 1916 - 644 lapas
...the well-known statement of Seiden that: 'Equity is a roguish thing. For law we have a measure, and know what to trust to. Equity is according to the...and, as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make his foot the standard of the measure \ve call a Chancellor's foot.... | |
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