 | Abraham Barham - 1831 - 222 pages
...that IF you increase by a legitimate measure the value of the currency, you Chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would this be! One Chancellor...'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... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 368 pages
...one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, a chancellor's foot ; what an uncertain measure would this be ! One chancellor...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,"... | |
 | Scottish periodicals - 1832 - 952 pages
...one, as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, a Chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would this be ? One Chancellor...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 - Judgments - 1835 - 162 pages
...equity. 'Tis all one, as if they should make the standard for the measure, a chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would this be! One chancellor...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 pages
...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 this be ! One Chancellor...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 - Equity - 1839 - 658 pages
...Heineccius De Edictis Prtetorum, Lih. 1, cap. 6, § 13, 30. for the measure the Chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would this be ? One Chancellor...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... | |
 | Law - 1839 - 508 pages
...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... | |
 | George Bowyer - Constitutional law - 1841 - 742 pages
...equity. 'Tis all one *s if they should make the standard for the measure a chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would this be ! One chancellor...another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. It is the same with the chancellor's conscience." Spelman, Coke, Lamband, and even the great Bacon,1... | |
 | Solomon Atkinson - Equity pleading and procedure - 1842 - 580 pages
...one as if they should make his foot the standard for the measure we call a Chancellor's foot, what an uncertain measure would this be ! One Chancellor...'tis the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience." — Selden't Table Talk. trars, except Mr. Colville, having concurred — the Vice-Chancellor was,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1843 - 746 pages
...equity. 'T is 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...another a short foot ; a third an indifferent foot. It is the same thing with the chancellor's conscience §." The truth seems to be, that however inapplicable... | |
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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... 
