 | Joseph Chitty - Civil procedure - 1833 - 1020 pages
...claimant is conscious it has been satisfied or intended to be relinquished. (I) Lord Camden said, " a Court of Equity, which is never active in relief...convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands where the party has slept upon his right and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords - Law reports, digests, etc - 1835 - 794 pages
...called into activity by such negligent plaintiffs. In the case of Smith v. Clay (d), Lord Camden says, " A Court of Equity, which is never active in relief...conscience or public convenience, has always refused its aid'to stale demands, where the party has slept upon his right, and acquiesced for a great length of... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1837 - 696 pages
...principles laid down by this Court, at the same term in which this cause was first before it. " A court cf equity, which is never active in relief against conscience,...convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands, where the party slept upon his rights, or acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth... | |
 | Thomas Lewin - Trusts and trustees - 1837 - 874 pages
...Camden upon this subject has been admired as peculiarly energetic. " A court of equity," he said, " which is never active in relief against conscience...convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands, where the party has slept upon his right, and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1843 - 460 pages
...when the original transactions have become obscured by time, and the evidence may be lost. Ibid. 8. A court of equity, which is never active in relief...convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands where the party has slept upon his rights for a great length of time. Bowv man and others v. Wathen... | |
 | Law - 1844 - 510 pages
...justice, when the original transactions have become obscured by time, and the evidence may be lost. 76. 7. A court of equity, which is never active in relief...convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands where the party has slept upon his rights for a great length of time. Hoicmun and others v. Wathen... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1844 - 896 pages
...great force and precision by Lord Camden, in Smith v. Clay, [reported in a note in 3 Brown's C. 639.] " A court of equity which is never active in relief...against conscience or public convenience, has always iefused its aid to stale demands, when the party has slept upon his rights, and acquiesced for a great... | |
 | John Jane Smith Wharton - Law - 1848 - 726 pages
...insist on his right lie is deemed to have abandoned it. " A Court of Equity," said Lord Caniden, " which is never active in relief against conscience...convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands, where a party has slept upon his right, and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1849 - 680 pages
...154. Especially after the lapse of some eighteen or twenty years, since the conveyance was executed. " A Court of Equity, which is never active in relief against conscience and the public convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands, when the party has slept upon... | |
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A court of equity, which is never active in relief against conscience or public convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands, where the party has slept upon his rights, and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this... 
