 | 1856 - Počet stránok 1492
...express themselves, upon this subject. " Equity (says he) is a roguish thing. For law we have a mea.-urc, know what to trust to. Equity is according to the...Equity. 'Tis 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 has a... | |
 | 1856 - Počet stránok 374
...warinest welcome at an inn. Shemtone. CCLXXIIL Equity is a roguish thing ; for law we have a measure, and know what to trust to : equity is according to the...narrower, so is equity. Tis all one as if they should make his foot the standard for the measure, we call a chancellor's foot, what an uncertain measure this... | |
 | 1856 - Počet stránok 764
...which this law deprives the citizen accused of a criminal offence. Selden complained that "equity ia according to the conscience of him that is chancellor, and as that is longer or narrower, so is equity. "Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure... | |
 | 1857 - Počet stránok 346
...equity. " Equity," saya Seiden (in Table-Talk), " is a roguish l hin'|.. For law we have a measure — know what to trust to; equity is according to the...chancellor; and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 'Tie all one, as if tney should make the standard for the measure a chancellor's foot. What an uncertain... | |
 | John Bate (mechanician.) - 1857 - Počet stránok 118
...breathe the early bracing morn While yet the dew is on the thorn. Equity. "For law we have a measure, and know what to trust to : equity is according to the...conscience of him that is chancellor, and as that is narrower or larger, so is equity. 'Tis all one, as if they should make the standard for the measure... | |
 | 1858 - Počet stránok 642
...sometimes according to rules of court. For law, he said, we have a measure, and know what to trust to ; but equity is according to the conscience of him that...; and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. It is all one, he said, as if they should make one standard for the measure that we call a foot —... | |
 | Homersham Cox - 1863 - Počet stránok 860
...decried even by learned men as purely arbitrary. Thus Seldeu says, " For law we have a measure, and know what to trust to ; equity is according to the...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... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - Počet stránok 592
...Law, sometimes according to the Rule of Court. Equity is a Roguish thing, for Law we have a measure, know what to trust to, Equity is according to the...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 has a... | |
 | William Whewell - 1864 - Počet stránok 644
...Law we have a measure, and we know what to trust to. Equity is according to the Conscience of him who is Chancellor ; and as that is larger or narrower,...all one as if they should make the standard for the * Codex in. 1. 8. It has been thought out, supplementing, and correcting the good that regard be had... | |
 | 1866 - Počet stránok 732
...law, sometimes according to the Rule of Court. Equity is a roguish thing ; for law we have a measure, know what to trust to ; Equity is according to the...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 has... | |
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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 measure... 
