| 1856 - 600 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. — Selden. HUME'S PHILOSOPHY AND STYLE. THE... | |
| Peter Oliver - 1856 - 528 pages
...of the chancellor, and the conscience of the chancellor is as uncertain as the length of his foot. One chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot ; it is the same with their consciences. This quaint old sarcasm of a common lawyer might have been... | |
| John Bate (mechanician.) - 1857 - 118 pages
...equity. 'Tis all one, as if they should make the standard for the measure 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 with the chancellor's conscience. " — SELDEN'S Table Talh. Equity, in its true... | |
| 1857 - 346 pages
...should make the standard for the measure a chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would this beI One chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot; 'tis the same thins with the chancellor's conscience." The whole theory, says Poison, of a court of equity may be... | |
| 1858 - 640 pages
...for the measure that we call a foot — a chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure, he exclaims, would this be ! One chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot, &o. It was, he said, the same thing of the chancellor's conscience. Such might have been equity at... | |
| Homersham Cox - 1863 - 862 pages
...equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure 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 with the Chancellor's conscience " (b) . This reproach, if it were well founded... | |
| Homersham Cox - 1863 - 860 pages
...should make the standard for the measure a Chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would this be 1 One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. It is the same thing with the Chancellor's conscience "(b). This reproach, if it were well founded... | |
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 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...Tis the same thing in the Chancellor's Conscience. That saying, Do as you would be done to, is often misunderstood, for 'tis not thus meant, that I a... | |
| Joseph Story - 1866 - 860 pages
...equity. 'T is 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."2 And notions of this sort were, in former ages,... | |
| R.C. Lepage - 1866 - 518 pages
...standard for the measure we ' call afoot ' a chancellor's foot.' What an uncertain measure this ' would be. One chancellor has a long foot; another a short foot; ' a third an indifferent foot; it is the same thing in the chancellors' (Table Talk.) Such was equity in the days of Selden, and such... | |
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