 | Law - 1877 - 510 pages
...2 Jao. & Walker, Hi ; 2 Story's Eq. S 1520 (a). "A court of equity, which Is never active in giving relief against conscience or public convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands where a party boa slept upon his rights and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call... | |
 | Joseph Story - Equity - 1877 - 908 pages
...Pleading. § 813, 814. In Smith ». Clay, Ambler, (Í45, Lord Caniden »aid : "A court of equity, which ¡s never active, in relief against conscience, or public convenience, has always refused its »id to stale demands, where the party has slept upon his right, and acquiesced fur a great length... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 808 pages
...an adverse right." 2 Story, Eq. Jur., sect. 1520. In Smith v. Clay (Arab. 645), Lord Camden said : " A court of equity, which is never active in relief...to stale demands, when the party has slept upon his right, and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this court into activity but... | |
 | John Campbell Allen - 1878 - 714 pages
...relief against con" science 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." As between Ward Chipman, Jr., and Elizabeth Chipman, there may have been the relation of principal... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 888 pages
...by Lord CAMDEN, in Smith v. Clay, .1 Brown's Chancery Reports, 639, in these words : " Thatacourtof equity, which is never active in relief against conscience...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 this court into... | |
 | Irving Browne - National banks (United States). - 1880 - 638 pages
...an adverse right." 2 Story's Eq. Jur., § 1,520. In Smith v. Clay, Ambler, 645, Lord CAMDEN said : " A court of equity, which is never active in relief...to stale demands, when the party has slept upon his right, and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this court into activity but... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 2060 pages
...relief in equity. In the case of Smith v. Clay, 3 Brown, Ch. 642, note, it is said by Lord Camden: "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, and acquiesced for a groat length of time. Nothing can call... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1148 pages
...dismissed it. "A court of equity," said Lord Camden, "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 this court into activity but conscience, good faith, and reasonable diligence. Where these are wanting,... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1880 - 696 pages
...v. Clay, 3 Brown's Ch. 699, in note, lays down the doctrine thus: "A court of equity, whick 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... | |
 | Law - 1881 - 556 pages
...uu'occouuted for, is a bar to a claim for specific performance." Lord Camdeu stated the general doctrine as follows : " A court of equity, which is never active...convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands where the party has slept upon his rights or acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call... | |
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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... 
