 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 534 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" — Table Talk. $ «' The discretion of a judge... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...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. — Sclden. CHANGES. — If a great change is to be made in human affairs, the minds of men will be... | |
 | Economics - 1853 - 448 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." This uncertainty has however long ceased in... | |
 | Eduard Fischel - Constitional law - 1853 - 620 pages
...Eunomu', 3rd. Dial., 565, custodem sigilh nostri privati. edit., 1822. || Pauli iii., 664. certain measure would this be ! One chancellor has a long...another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. It is the same with the chancellor's conscience." On the other hand, Lord Redesdale contends that the... | |
 | Joseph Story - Equity - 1853 - 890 pages
...Mitford, Plead. Eq. p. 4, note (b). See Heineccius De Edictis Praetorum, Lib. 1, cap. 6, § 13, 30. sure would this 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." ' And notions of this sort were, in former... | |
 | John Bouvier - Law - 1854 - 756 pages
...equity. "Tis all one, as if they should make a 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, "(b) In modern times, however, courts of equity... | |
 | Industries - 1855 - 778 pages
...should make the standard for the measure the chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure this would bo! 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." ing all the books upon the subject, will find... | |
 | John Selden - Table-talk - 1856 - 324 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...you would be done to," is often misunderstood, for 'tis not thus meant, that I a private Man should do to you a private Man, as I would have you to me,... | |
 | Ireland - 1856 - 1492 pages
...is Equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard of the measure a Chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would this be ? One Chancellor...short foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'Tis the same thinf* with the Chancellor's conscience." f It is wonderful wh it strange notion? of Equity hare been... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
