| John Selden - Table-talk - 1689 - 196 pages
...Standard for the measure we call a Foot, a Chancellor's Foot ; what an uncertain Measure would be this. One Chancellor has a long Foot, another a short Foot, a Third an indifferent Foot : 'Tis the same thing in the Chancellor's Conscience. 3. That saying, " Do as you would be done to,"... | |
| James Wilson - Law - 1804 - 514 pages
...is larger or narrower, so is equity. It is all one as if they should make the standard of measure a chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would...another, a short foot ; a third, an indifferent foot. 'Tis the same thing in the chancellor's conscience." Similar, though not expressed, perhaps, in a similar... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...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 measure would...another a short foot, a third an indifferent . foot: Tis the same thing in the chancellor's conscience. 3. That saying, Do as you would be done to, is often... | |
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 970 pages
...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 measure would...another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot: Tis the same thing in the chancellor's conscience. 3. That saying, Do as you would be done to, is often... | |
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 528 pages
...equity. Tis all one, as if they should make the standard for the measure, a chancellor's foot. AVhat an uncertain measure would this be! One chancellor...another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot: 'Tis the same thing in the chancellor's conscience. 3. That saying, Do as you would be done to, is... | |
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 550 pages
...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 measure would...another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot; Tis the same thing in the chancellor's conscience. 3. That saying, Do as you -would -It done to, is... | |
| Louis Simond - 1815 - 442 pages
...larger or narrower, so is equi'ty. It is all one as if they should make the standard for measure a chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would...another a short foot; a third an indifferent foot : 'tis the same thing in the chancellor's conscience !" Blackstone, on the contrary, says, " That the... | |
| Louis Simond - Great Britain - 1815 - 408 pages
...if they should make the standard for measure a chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure wotild this be ! One chancellor has a long foot ; another a short foot ; a third an indifferent foot : 'tie the same thing in the chancellor's conscience !" Blackstone, on the contrary, says, " That the... | |
| John Selden - Religion and state - 1818 - 678 pages
...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...a third an indifferent foot: it is the same thing in the chancellor's conscience. 3. That saying, Do as you would be done to, is often misunderstood,... | |
| John Selden - 1818 - 230 pages
...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...a third an indifferent foot: it is the same thing in the chancellor's conscience. 3. That saying, Do as you would be done to, is often misunderstood,... | |
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