 ... and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this court into activity but conscience, good faith, and reasonable diligence; where these are wanting, the court is passive and does nothing. Laches and neglect are always discountenanced...  The Southeastern Reporter - Página 1451904Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | John Louis Taylor Sneed, Tennessee. Supreme Court - 1857 - 812 páginas
...of Lord Clarenden in Smith vs. Cay, 3 Bro. Ch. Rep. 640, note, stated the doctrine to be, that " a Court of Equity which is never active in relief against conscience, or public convenience has John Lafferty, >> al., vst TW Turley, Ex'r, H al. always refused its aid to stale demands, where the... | |
 | John Peter De Gex, F. Fisher, Henry Cadman Jones - 1861 - 714 páginas
...Clay (a), speaking generally of the effect of length of time in Courts of Equity, says this: — " A Court of Equity, which is never active in relief against...to stale demands where the party has slept upon his right and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this Court into activity but... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1908 - 718 páginas
...irrespective of any statutory limitation, was stated by an eminent English chancellor as follows : "A court of equity, which is never active in relief against...convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands when the party has slept upon his rights and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1864 - 696 páginas
...Wathen. I H. v. Clay, 3 Brown's Chancery Reports, 640, in note, " that a court of equity, which never is active in relief against conscience or public convenience,...demands, where the party has slept upon his rights for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this court into activity but conscience, good faith,... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, United States. Supreme Court - 1864 - 652 páginas
...have, upon general principles of their own, even where there was no statutable bar, refused relief to stale demands ; where the party has slept upon...rights, and acquiesced for a great length of time." At law, the statute operates where the conflicting titles are adverse in their origin, and no reason... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - 1868 - 732 páginas
...remarks of Lord Camden in Smith v. Clay, (note to 3 Brown's Ch. Rep. 640,) which are as follows: "A court of equity, which is never active in relief against...convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands when the party has slept upon his rights, and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1870 - 914 páginas
...Story, 537; Story on Eq. Pleading, § 813, 814. In Smith v. Clay, Ambler, 645, Lord Camden said: "A court of equity, which is never active in relief against...stale demands, where the party has slept upon his right, and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this court into activity,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1870 - 618 páginas
...Smith v. Clay, 3 Bro. Ch. Rep. 640, note. Scott v. Lloyd. 9 P. ner. "A court of equity," said he, " which is never active in relief against conscience...demands, where the party has slept upon his rights, [ * 417 ] or acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing * can call forth this court into activity... | |
 | Austin Abbott - 1870 - 570 páginas
...Smith ». Clay, ihe best report of which is to be found in Deloraine v. Brown (supra). He said, " A court of equity, which is never active in relief against...conscience or public convenience, has always refused is aid to stale demands, where the party slept upon Lio right and acquiesced for a great length of... | |
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