 | 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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... 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... 
