 | 1837 - Страниц: 352
...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...foot, a third an indifferent foot: it is the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience. — Sclden . 373. Natural Loveliness. — "Is nature ordinarily... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1839 - Страниц: 658
...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...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 ages, when the... | |
 | 1839 - Страниц: 508
...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...this be? One chancellor has a long foot, another a small foot, a third an indifferent foot. It is the same thing with the chancellor's conscience." But... | |
 | Solomon Atkinson - 1842 - Страниц: 580
...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, what an uncertain measure would...another a short foot; a third an indifferent foot: 'tis the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience." — Selden't Table Talk. trars, except Mr. Colville,... | |
 | 1843 - Страниц: 746
...larger or narrower, so is equity. 'T is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure the chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would...foot ; a third an indifferent foot. It is the same thing with the chancellor's conscience §." The truth seems to be, that however inapplicable these... | |
 | 1843 - Страниц: 574
...one," says Selden, " as if they should make the standard for the measure, the 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." Where would such a man as Wolsey stop when armed with equitable... | |
 | 1844 - Страниц: 888
...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...foot ; a third an indifferent foot; it is the same thing with a chancellor's conscience." "The discretion of a Judge," said Lord Camden, that learned... | |
 | Horace Twiss - 1844 - Страниц: 542
...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 "...foot, a third an indifferent foot : it is the same " ' thing in the Chancellor's conscience.' " From these intimations, it might be inferred by those... | |
 | Horace Twiss - 1844 - Страниц: 450
...is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, a chancellor's fool ; what an uncertain measure would this be! One chancellor...foot, a third an indifferent foot: it is the same thing in the chancellor's conscience." From these intimations, it might be inferred by those unacquainted... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - Страниц: 544
...should make the standard for the measure the chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure this would be ! 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." despaired. Cavilling objectors have found much in it to censure,... | |
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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... 
