 | 1866 - 514 pages
...standard for the measure we ' call a. foot ' & 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' ' conscience' (Table Talk.) Such was equity in the days... | |
 | Treasury - 1868 - 148 pages
...the standard for the measure, we call a chancellor's foot — what an uncertain measure this would be ! One chancellor has a long foot, another a short...'tis the same thing in the chancellor's conscience. Seldcn. RUINED BY GOOD FORTUNE. " The fact is, I was ruined by having money left me," said the cobbler.... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 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. 'T is the same in the Chancellor's conscience. Table Talh. Equity. Old friends are best. King James... | |
 | 1920 - 496 pages
...they should make the standard of the measure we call a 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 chancellor's conscience."8 One of the early resolves of the Little Parliament,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 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. T is the same in the Chancellor's conscience. Table Talk. Equity. Old friends are best. King James... | |
 | Christopher Cavanagh - 1875 - 240 pages
...creed. It was said by Selden the chancery conscience varies with the size of the chancellor's foot. " One chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'Tis the same in the chancellor's conscience" (Table Talk). Well that was bad enough ; but it is ten times worse... | |
 | William Tegg - 1876 - 146 pages
...chancellor's foot, what an uncertain measure this would be ! Ono chancellor has a long foot, another a shert foot, a third an indifferent foot : 'tis the same thing in the chancellor's conscience. — Sclden. ERRORS. Errors are of three sorts : some are against the foundation of saving truth, some... | |
 | 1877 - 362 pages
...should make the standard for the measure wo call a foot a Chancellor's foot ; what an uncertain meusure would this be ! One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'Tie the same in the Chancellor's conscience. — SEL DKN, Tahle Tall.-. Equivocation. — How absolute... | |
 | sir John Bowring - 1877 - 594 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 has a long foot, another a short foot, the third an indifferent foot. It is the same thing with the Chancellor's conscience." * The next step... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1878 - 402 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...short foot, a third an indifferent foot. "Tis the same in the Chancellor's conscience." Of course it was a necessary and inevitable corollary of such views... | |
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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... 
