 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,...  Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of the State of North Dakota - Página 506de North Dakota. Supreme Court, Hiram A. Libby, Robert Milligan Carothers, Robert Dimon Hoskins, Edgar Whittlesey Camp, Joseph Coghlan, John McDowell Cochrane, Ames Francis Wilbur, Edwin James Taylor - 1922Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | 1858 - 642 páginas
...for the measure that we call a foot — a chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure, he exclaims, would this be ! One chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot, &o. It was, he said, the same thing of the chancellor's conscience. Such might have been equity at... | |
 | Homersham Cox - 1863 - 862 páginas
...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 would...another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. It is the same thing with the Chancellor's conscience " (b) . This reproach, if it were well founded... | |
 | Homersham Cox - 1863 - 860 páginas
...should make the standard for the measure a Chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would this be 1 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 "(b). This reproach, if it were well founded... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 páginas
...so is 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 would...third an indifferent Foot : ' Tis the same thing in the Chancellor's Conscience. That saying, Do as you would be done to, is often misunderstood, for 'tis... | |
 | 1866 - 732 páginas
...narrower, so is 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 would...third an indifferent foot ; 'tis the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience." So defective, however, was the Common Law, that it is impossible to doubt... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1866 - 860 páginas
...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...another a short foot ; a third an indifferent foot. It is the same thing with the chancellor's conscience."2 And notions of this sort were, in former ages,... | |
 | R.C. Lepage - 1866 - 518 páginas
...standard for the measure we ' call afoot ' a 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 in the chancellors' (Table Talk.) Such was equity in the days of Selden, and such... | |
 | 1866 - 514 páginas
...standard for the measure we ' call a. foot ' & 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 in the chancellors' ' conscience' (Table Talk.) Such was equity in the days... | |
 | Treasury - 1868 - 148 páginas
...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...third an indifferent foot : 'tis the same thing in the chancellor's conscience. Seldcn. RUINED BY GOOD FORTUNE. " The fact is, I was ruined by having... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 páginas
...narrower, so is equity. 'T 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. 'T is the same in the Chancellor's conscience. Table Talh. Equity. Old friends are best. King James... | |
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