 | Maryland. Court of Chancery - Equity - 1852 - 634 pages
...Campden, in Smith vs. Clay, 3 Brown's Ch. Rep., that court says, "that a court of equity which never is active in relief against conscience, or public convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands, where the party has slept upon his for a great length of time ; and that nothing can call forth this... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 802 pages
...bill was dismissed, the court quoting the language of Lord Camden in Smith v. Clay, 3 Brown, Ch. 639: "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... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1852 - 560 pages
...Clay, 8 Brown's Ch. R. 699, in note, laj's down the doctrine thus: " A court of equity, which is ever 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 a great length of time. Nothing can call... | |
 | Asa Kinne - Courts - 1852 - 392 pages
...court is passive, and does nothing; laches and neglect are always discountenanced. A court of equity is never active in relief against conscience or public convenience, has always refused its aid to state demands, where the party has slept upon his rights for a great length of time. Boimnanet al.,... | |
 | Asa Kinne - Courts - 1853 - 538 pages
...Sutton, 5 Mason's R., 143, 145, 146. In Smith v. Clay, 3 Bro. Ch. R., 640, Lord Camden said : — " A court of equity, which is never active in relief...public convenience, has always refused its aid to State demands, where the party has slept upon his nv.lit, and acquiesced for a great length of time.... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Court of Common Pleas (Philadelphia County) - 1853 - 612 pages
...inefficient. — Palmer v. Graham, 476. A Court of Equity has always refused its aid to stale demands, when a party has slept upon his rights, and acquiesced for a great length of time. No tiling can call this Court into activity but good faith and reasonable diligence ; when these are... | |
 | John Louis Taylor Sneed, Tennessee. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1857 - 812 pages
...language of Lord Clarenden in Smith vs. Cay, 3 Bro. Ch. Rep. 640, note, stated the doctrine to be, that " a Court of Equity which is never active in relief against conscience, or public convenience has John Lafferty, >> al., vst TW Turley, Ex'r, H al. always refused its aid to stale demands, where the... | |
 | John Peter De Gex, F. Fisher, Henry Cadman Jones - Equity - 1861 - 714 pages
...Clay (a), speaking generally of the effect of length of time in Courts of Equity, says this: — " 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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 696 pages
...Wathen. I H. v. Clay, 3 Brown's Chancery Reports, 640, in note, " that a court of equity, which never is active in relief against conscience or public convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands, where the party has slept upon his rights for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this court... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 652 pages
...principles of their own, even where there was no statutable bar, refused relief to stale demands ; where the party has slept upon his rights, and acquiesced for a great length of time." At law, the statute operates where the conflicting titles are adverse in their origin, and no reason... | |
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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... 
