 | 1856 - 374 ページ
...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...chancellor, and as that is larger or 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,... | |
 | 1856 - 1492 ページ
...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...Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is Equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard of the measure a Chancellor's foot. What an uncertain... | |
 | 1856 - 764 ページ
...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 - 346 ページ
...peculiar branch of law, styled equity. " Equity," saya Seiden (in Table-Talk), " is a roguish l hin'|.. For law we have a measure — know what to trust to;...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 - 118 ページ
...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 - 642 ページ
...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...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 — a chancellor's... | |
 | Homersham Cox - 1863 - 860 ページ
...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; and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure a Chancellor's foot. What an uncertain... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 ページ
...Conscience, sometimes according to Law, sometimes according to the Rule of Court. Equity is a Roguish thing, for Law we have a measure, know what to trust...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,... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1866 - 860 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. 'T is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure the chancellor's foot. What an uncertain... | |
 | R.C. Lepage - 1866 - 518 ページ
...language of Selden. ' Equity is a roguish ' thing. 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 measure we ' call afoot ' a chancellor's foot.' What an uncertain measure this ' would be. One... | |
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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... 
