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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... "
Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ... - Page 484
by George Burnett - 1807
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The Standard Library Cyclopedia of Political, Constitutional, Statistical ...

1848 - 476 pages
...all 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...another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot : it is the same thing in the chancellor's conscience." This uncertainty has however long ceased in...
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The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England ...

John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1848 - 702 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...another, a short foot ; a third, an indifferent foot : it is the same thing in the chancellor's conscience."— Table Talk. INTRODUCTION. the answer is,...
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Hortensius: Or, The Advocate: An Historical Essay

William Forsyth - 1849 - 538 pages
...equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure 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 with the chancellor's conscience.' And notions of this sort were, in former ages,...
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Visitor: Or Monthly Instructor

1849 - 492 pages
...as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, of 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 a chancellor's conscience.' " " I know the book well from which you have...
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Hortensius: Or, The Advocate: An Historical Essay

William Forsyth - 1849 - 528 pages
...equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure 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 with the chancellor's conscience.' And notions of this sort were, in former ages,...
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The Provincial Courts of New Jersey: With Sketches of the Bench and Bar : a ...

Richard Stockton Field - 1849 - 336 pages
...all one as if they should make the standard of the measure we call a foot, 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 in the Chancellor's conscience."— Selden's Table-Talk. In fact, it was not...
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Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 20

1849 - 708 pages
...equity. Tie all one, as if they should make the standard for the measure the Chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would this be ! One Chancellor...another, a short foot ; a third, an indifferent foot. It та the same with the Chancellor's conscience." And again, if the Courts of Equity recognize the...
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Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 20

Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - 1849 - 714 pages
...equity. 'Tis all one, as if they should make the standard for the measure 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 with the Chancellor's conscience." And again, if the Courts of Equity recognize the...
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The Provincial Courts of New Jersey: With Sketches of the Bench and Bar : a ...

Richard Stockton Field - 1849 - 336 pages
...with costs. if they should make the standard of the measure we call a foot, 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 in the Chancellor's conscience." — Selden's Table-Talk. In fact, it was not...
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The Irish Quarterly Review, Volume 6, Part 1

1856 - 706 pages
...is Equity. "Pis all one as if they should make the standard of the measure a Chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would this be ? One Chancellor...foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'Tis the same thing with the Chancellor's conscience." f It is wonderful wh-it strange notions of Equity have been seriously...
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