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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,... "
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Table Talk: Being the Discourses

John Selden - Early printed books - 1786 - 190 pages
...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, a chancellor's foot ; what an uncertain...
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Table Talk: Being the Discourses of John Selden, Esq., Or His Sense of ...

John Selden - Table-talk - 1786 - 196 pages
...for law v« have a measure, know.whstto trust to; eqliity 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 i£ they should make the standard for the measure, aichanr cellor's 'foot ; 'whac...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...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 narrower,...if 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...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 970 pages
...law we have a measure, we know what to trust to; equity i» according to the conspience of him that is chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower,...if 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...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 528 pages
...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 narrower,...if they should make the standard for the measure, a chancellor's foot. AVhat an uncertain measure would this be! One chancellor has a long foot, another...
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Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, During the Years ..., Volume 1

Louis Simond - Great Britain - 1815 - 408 pages
...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 measure a chancellor's foot. What an uncertain...
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Seldeniana, or The table-talk of John Selden

John Selden - 1818 - 230 pages
...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 Table Talk of John Selden

John Selden - Religion and state - 1818 - 678 pages
...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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Criticisms on the Bar: Including Strictures on the Principal Counsel ...

John Payne Collier - Law - 1819 - 338 pages
...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 narrower,...'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 - English essays - 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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