 | Eduard Fischel - 1853 - 620 ページ
...Dial., 565, custodem sigilh nostri privati. edit., 1822. || Pauli iii., 664. certain measure would this be ! One chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. It is the same with the chancellor's conscience." On the other hand, Lord Redesdale contends that the... | |
 | 1853 - 448 ページ
...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 : it is the same thing in the chancellor's conscience." This uncertainty has however long ceased in... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 ページ
...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. — Sclden. CHANGES. — If a great change is... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1854 - 756 ページ
...they should make a 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, "(b) In modern times, however, courts of equity... | |
 | 1855 - 778 ページ
...should make the standard for the measure the chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure this would bo! 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." ing all the books upon the subject, will find... | |
 | 1856 - 600 ページ
...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 : it is the same thing in the chancellor's conscience. — Selden. HUME'S PHILOSOPHY AND STYLE. THE... | |
 | 1856 - 374 ページ
...foot 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. — Selden. CCLXXIV. It has been observed, that... | |
 | Peter Oliver - 1856 - 528 ページ
...of the chancellor, and the conscience of the chancellor is as uncertain as the length of his foot. One chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot ; it is the same with their consciences. This quaint old sarcasm of a common lawyer might have been... | |
 | John Bate (mechanician.) - 1857 - 118 ページ
...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. " — SELDEN'S Table Talh. Equity, in its true... | |
 | 1857 - 346 ページ
...should make the standard for the measure a chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would this beI One chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot; 'tis the same thins with the chancellor's conscience." The whole theory, says Poison, of a court of... | |
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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... 
