| Thomas Erskine Holland - 1886 - 402 pages
...Works, vii. p. 401, 3 Paget v. Gee, Amb. App. p. 810. * W»l worth t). Holt, 4 My. and Cr. 635. CHAP. v. foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot ; 'tis the ' same thing in the Chancellor's conscience1.' To this charge Lord Eldon replied in a judgment which traces the lines on which his own... | |
| 1916 - 1060 pages
...all one as if they should make his foot the standard of the measure we call a Chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would this be. One Chancellor has a long foot, and the other a short foot, а third an indifferent foot.' "Pis the same thing in the Chancellor's... | |
| Thomas Erskine Holland - 1888 - 448 pages
...Uses, Works, vii. p. 401. 5 Paget ». Gee, Amb. App. p. 810. 1 Walworth v. Holt, 4 My. snd Cr. 635. foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot; 'tis the on At. v. same thing in the Chancellor's conscience V To this charge Lord Eldon replied in a judgment... | |
| Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 pages
...all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a font 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. 1375 JohnSelden: Table Talk. Equity. ERROR An error is the more dangerous... | |
| William Mack, William Benjamin Hale - 1920 - 1290 pages
...one as If they should make his foot the standard for the measure we call a chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would this be? One chancellor...foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'Tis the same thing as the chancellor's conscience." Table Talk Eq. [quot Cox v. Burgess, 139 Ky. 699, 703, 9fi SW 577].... | |
| Austin Wakeman Scott, Sidney Post Simpson - 1946 - 998 pages
...A foot, to he the Chancellors Foot ; what an uncertain measure would this be ; One Chancellor ha's a long foot another A short foot a third an indifferent foot ; tis the same thing in the Chancellors Conscience." See also "Replication of a Serjaunte at the Lawcs of England" [circa 1525],... | |
| Bar Association of Arkansas - 1920 - 666 pages
...narrower, so is equity. It is all one, as if they should make the standard * a chancellor's foot. * * * 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." But new interests were pressing which were... | |
| New Jersey State Bar Association - 1919 - 168 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." Table Talk. Selden's Works, p 2028 (ed. 1728).... | |
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