 | Brook Thomas - Law and literature - 2002 - 424 pages
...as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot to be 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 in the Chancellor's conscience.43 42 Ellesmere JC, Earl of Oxford's Case (I Ch.... | |
 | Michael Mello - Family & Relationships - 2008 - 352 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...Tis the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience. /. Bartlett, Familiar Quotations, 263 (15th ed.1980). 33. The State does not address the apparent conflict... | |
 | George P. Fletcher, Steve Sheppard - Law - 2005 - 700 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...'Tis the same thing in the Chancellor's Conscience." Do you agree? Is the predictability of equity enhanced by its usual failure to employ a jury as the... | |
 | James Wilson, Bird Wilson - Law - 2005 - 1436 pages
...so is equity. It is all one as if they should make the standard of measure a chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would this be! One chancellor...'Tis the same .thing in the chancellor's conscience." Similar, though not expressed, perhaps, in a similar manner, were the sentiments of the principal lawyers... | |
 | William Willis - Courts - 2006 - 760 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...another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. It is the same thing with the chancellor's conscience." Mr. Orr's first appearance in the reports is... | |
 | Andrew J. Majeske - English literature - 2006 - 232 pages
...uncertain Measure would this be? One Chancellor Equity in Book V of Spenser's The Faerie Queene 97 has a long Foot, another a short Foot, a Third an...indifferent Foot: 'Tis the same thing in the Chancellor's Conscience.7 (Table Talk 64) Hypothesizing that Spenser shared Seldon's skepticism, I see irony in... | |
 | William Kolbrener, Michal Michelson - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 244 pages
...standard for the measure we call a 'foot' a Chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure that would be! One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short...'Tis the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience" (Richard Milward, "Equity," in Table Talk of John Selden, ed. Frederick Pollock [London, 1927], 43).... | |
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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... 
