 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 lapas
...foot the standard for the measure, we call a chancellor's foot, what an uncertain measure this would be ! One chancellor has a long foot, another a short...'tis the same thing in the chancellor's conscience. — Selden. CCLXXIV. It has been observed, that not one favourite of the muses has ever been able to... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 lapas
...foot the standard for the measure, we call a chancellor's foot, what an uncertain measure this would be ! One chancellor has a long foot, another a short...'tis the same thing in the chancellor's conscience. — Selden. CCLXXIV. It has been observed, that not one favourite of the muses has ever been able to... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1837 - 1014 lapas
...they should make the standard of measure a chancellor's foot ; what an uncertain measure would tins be ! One chancellor has a long foot ; another a short foot ; a third ao indifferent foot — 'tis the same thing with a chancellor's conscience." Now, as chancellors and... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1854 - 956 lapas
...larger, or narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one, as if they should make the standard for the measure the Chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would...another a short foot — a third, an indifferent foot. It is the same thing with the Chancellor's •conscience." But this is not so. The principles upon... | |
 | Abraham Barham - 1831 - 222 lapas
...or doubt whatever is, " that IF you increase by a legitimate measure the value of the currency, you Chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would...'tis the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience." — TABLE TALK, Equity. Perchance "Equity in Law" is still a deceptive thing, yet if Lord Eldon decided... | |
 | 1831 - 368 lapas
...narrower, so is equity. It is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, a chancellor's foot ; what an uncertain measure would...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,"... | |
 | 1832 - 952 lapas
...narrower, so is equity. 'Ti» all one, as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, a Chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would...another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot.» 'Tie the fame thing in the Chancellor's conscience. f-. CEBEJIONY keeps up all things ; 'tis like a... | |
 | James Ram - 1835 - 162 lapas
...that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one, as if they should make the standard for the measure, a chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure...indifferent foot: 'tis the same thing in the chancellor's conscience."(o) This however is, in an extreme degree, a wrong view of the matter. In the absence of... | |
 | 1837 - 352 lapas
...narrower, so is equity. It is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, a Chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would...another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot: it is the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience. — Sclden . 373. Natural Loveliness. — "Is... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1839 - 658 lapas
...p. 4, note (A). See Heineccius De Edictis Prtetorum, Lih. 1, cap. 6, § 13, 30. for the measure the Chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would...another a short foot; a third an indifferent foot. It is the same thing with the Chancellor's conscience." 1 And notions of this sort were, in former... | |
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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... 
