 | John Selden - Religion and state - 1818 - 678 pages
...sometimes according to the rule of court. 2. Equity is a roguish thing; for law we have a measure, know what to trust to ; equity is according to the...chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. It is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure, we call a foot, a chancellor's foot,... | |
 | John Millar - Constitutional history - 1818 - 504 pages
...the learned Selden. " Equity," says that author, " is a roguish thing; for law we have a " measure; know what to trust to. Equity " is according to the...him that " is chancellor ; and, as that is larger or nar" rower, so is equity. It is all one as if they " should make the standard for measure a " chancellor's... | |
 | John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1818 - 762 pages
...thing ; for law we have a mea" fure ; know what we truft to. Equity is according to the " conference of him that is chancellor ; and, as that is larger ** or narrower, fo is equity. It is all one, as if they fliould " make the ftandard for meafure a chancellor's foot.... | |
 | John Payne Collier - Law - 1819 - 338 pages
...respect.—" Equity (says Selden in his most, or rather his only, popular work) is a roguish thing : for the Law we have a measure, we know what to trust to; Equity...'Tis all one as if they should make the standard for measure a Chancellor's foot: what an uncertain measure would this be. One Chancellor has a long foot,... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - English essays - 1819 - 378 pages
...sometimes according to the rule of court. 2. 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 nr narrower, so is equity. It is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call... | |
 | John Selden - 1821 - 170 pages
...sometimes according to the rule of court. 2. Equity is a roguish thing ; for Jaw we have a measure — know what to trust to ; equity is according to the...chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. It is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, a chancellor's foot... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 328 pages
...sometimes according to the rule of court. 2. Equity is a roguish thing ; for Jaw we have a measure — know what to trust to ; equity is according to the conscience of him that is chancellor, aud as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. It is all one as if they should make the standard... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1822 - 434 pages
...observation concerning the chancery: — "Equity is a roguish thing; for law we have a measure, — know what to trust to; equity is according to the...chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. It is all one as they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, a chancellor's foot;... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1826 - 802 pages
...roguish thing ; for law we have a measure — know what to trust to; equity is according VOL. XIII. to the conscience of him that is chancellor, and as that is larger, or narrower, so is equity. It is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, a chancellor's foot... | |
 | George Moir - Anecdotes - 1827 - 466 pages
...sometimes according to the rule of court. 2. Equity is a roguish thing ; for law we have a measure — know what to trust to ; equity is according to the...chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. It is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, a chancellor's foot;... | |
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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 measure... 
