 | North Dakota. Supreme Court, Hiram A. Libby, Robert Milligan Carothers, Robert Dimon Hoskins, Edgar Whittlesey Camp, John McDowell Cochrane, Ames Francis Wilbur, Joseph Coghlan, Edwin James Taylor - Court rules - 1922 - 712 pages
...all one as if they should make his foot the standard for the measure we call chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would this be! One chancellor...third an indifferent foot. 'Tis the same thing in Chancellor's conscience." I may, perhaps, be justified in using as my own the language of the great... | |
 | Law - 1890 - 838 pages
...should make the standard for the measure 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 with the chancellor's conscience." Hence, even in earnestly striving to adhere with... | |
 | New Jersey Historical Society - New Jersey - 1849 - 340 pages
...with costs. if they should make the standard of 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." — Selden's Table-Talk. In fact, it was not... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 644 pages
...one as if they should make his foot the standard of the measure \ve call a Chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would this be. One Chancellor has a long foot, and the other a short foot, a third an indifferent foot.' 'Tis the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 1174 pages
...Chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would this be. One Chancellor has a long foot, and the other a short foot, a third an indifferent foot.' 'Tis the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience. Table Talk Eq. The modern theory follows that of Lord Eldon : 'The doctrines of this court ought to... | |
 | Peter Charles Hoffer - Political Science - 1990 - 324 pages
...if they should make the Standard for the measure wee call A foot, to be the Chancellors foot; what an uncertain measure would this be; one Chancellor...third an indifferent foot; tis the same thing in the Chancellors Conscience." Selden's satire had a bitter flavor—he was no friend of the Crown or its... | |
 | 1991 - 354 pages
...if they should make the Standard for the measure wee call A foot, to be the Chancellors foot; what an uncertain measure would this be; One Chancellor...another A short foot a third an indifferent foot; ris the same thing in the Chancellors Conscience" (Selden, Table Talk, p. 49). 11. West, Symboleography,... | |
 | Bryan A. Garner - Business & Economics - 2001 - 990 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...'tis the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience." John Seiden, Table Talk (1689) (as quoted in Thomas E. Holland, The Elements of Jurisprudence 74 (13th... | |
 | Jeffrey Miller - Humor - 2002 - 302 pages
...as if they should make ye Standard for ye measure wee call A foot, to be ye Chancellors foot; what an uncertain measure would this be; One Chancellor...another A short foot[,] a third an indifferent foot; tis ye same thing in ye Chancellors Conscience." and large young adults were more innocent than they were... | |
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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... 
