| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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