 | 1848 - 476 ページ
...conscience, sometimes according to law,someiimes according to the rule of court Equity is a roguish thing : for law we have a measure, know what to trust...is 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... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1848 - 702 ページ
...Equity is a roguish thing : for law we have a measure. Equity is according to the conscience of him who is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower,...is 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... | |
 | 1849 - 492 ページ
...sometimes according to the rule of court. Equity is a roguish thing ; for law we have a measure, and know what to trust to ; equity is according to the...is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, of the chancellor's foot ; what an uncertain measure would this be ! One... | |
 | Richard Stockton Field - 1849 - 336 ページ
...Chancery, which was decreed for him with costs. Even the learned Selden thus speaks: "Equity is a roguish thing : for law we have a measure — know what to...is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, DO if equity. It is all one as if they should make the standard of the measure we call a foot, a Chancellor's... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - 1849 - 714 ページ
...well be imagined, and would deserve this spirited rebuke of Selden : " For law we have a measure, and know what to trust to. Equity is according to the...Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one, as if they should make the standard for the measure the Chancellor's foot. What an uncertain... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1849 - 528 ページ
...of chancery might then well deserve the spirited rebuke of Selden; 'For law we have a measure, and know what to trust to. Equity is according to the...; and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure the chancellor's foot. What an uncertain... | |
 | 1849 - 708 ページ
...well be imagined, and would deserve this spirited rebuke of Seiden : " For law we have a measure, and 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 they should make the standard for the measure the Chancellor's foot. What an uncertain... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1849 - 538 ページ
...of chancery might then well deserve the spirited rebuke of Selden; ' For law we have a measure, and know what to trust to. Equity is according to the...; and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure the chancellor's foot. What an uncertain... | |
 | 1856 - 706 ページ
...themselves, upon this subject. " Equity (gays he) is a roguish thing. For law we have •••• measure, know what to trust to. Equity is according...Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is Equity. "Pis all one as if they should make the standard of the measure a Chancellor's foot. What an uncertain... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 534 ページ
...Equity is a roauish thir^g : for law we have a measure. Equity is according to the conscience of him who is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower,...is 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... | |
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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... 
