 | 1858 - 642 páginas
...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 páginas
...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, 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 páginas
...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 páginas
...the Standard for the measure, we call [a Foot] a Chancellor's Foot, what an uncertain Measure would this be? One Chancellor has a long Foot, another a short Foot, a third an indifferent Foot : ' Tis the same thing in the Chancellor's Conscience. That saying, Do as you would be done to, is... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1866 - 860 páginas
...they should make the standard for the measure the chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would this be ? 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."2 And notions of this sort were, in former ages,... | |
 | 1866 - 732 páginas
...the standard for the measure we call a foot, a Chancellor's foot ; what an uncertain measure would this be ! One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot ; 'tis the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience." So defective, however, was the Common Law, that... | |
 | R.C. Lepage - 1866 - 518 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1866 - 514 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 foot, a third an indifferent foot : 'tis the same thing in the chancellor's conscience. Seldcn. RUINED BY GOOD FORTUNE. " The fact is,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 páginas
...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 long foot, 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... | |
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... 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 we call a foot, a Chancellor's foot; what an... 
