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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,... "
Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ... - Page 370
by George Burnett - 1807
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Seldeniana, or The table-talk of John Selden

John Selden - 1818 - 230 pages
...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. It is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure, we call a foot, a chancellor's foot,...
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The Political State of the British Empire: Containing a General ..., Volume 2

John Adolphus - 1818 - 762 pages
...thing ; for law we have a mea" fure ; know what we truft to. Equity is according to the " conference of him that is chancellor ; and, as that is larger ** or narrower, fo is equity. It is all one, as if they fliould " make the ftandard for meafure a chancellor's foot....
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Criticisms on the Bar: Including Strictures on the Principal Counsel ...

John Payne Collier - 1819 - 338 pages
...thing : for the Law we have a measure, we know what to trust to; Equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or...'Tis all one as if they should make the standard for measure a Chancellor's foot: what an uncertain measure would this be. One Chancellor has a long foot,...
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Essays, Moral and Entertaining

Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1819 - 378 pages
...to the conscience of him that is chancellor, and as that is larger nr narrower, so is equity. It 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 has a...
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Selden's table talk

John Selden - 1821 - 170 pages
...thing ; for Jaw 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. It is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, a chancellor's foot...
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The British Prose Writers: Sheldon's table talk. Sir W. Blackstone's ...

1821 - 328 pages
...to the conscience of him that is chancellor, aud as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. It 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 bas...
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Memoirs of the Court of King James the First, Volume 2

Lucy Aikin - 1822 - 434 pages
...narrower, so is equity. It is all one as they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, a chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would...foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent fopt; it is the same thing in the chancellor's conscience.'}' When this high court of judicature, from...
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Memoirs of the Court of King James the First, Volume 2

Lucy Aikin - 1822 - 434 pages
...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. It is all one as they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, a chancellor's foot;...
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The Parliamentary Debates, Volume 13

Great Britain. Parliament - 1826 - 802 pages
...for law we have a measure — know what to trust to; equity is according VOL. XIII. to the conscience of him that is chancellor, and as that is larger, or narrower, so is equity. It is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, a chancellor's foot...
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Table-talk; Or, Selections from the Ana: Containing Extracts from the ...

George Moir - 1827 - 466 pages
...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. It is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, a chancellor's foot;...
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