 | 1891 - 1138 pages
...Smith v. Clay, 3 Brown, Ch., note, pp. 639, 640, says: "A court of equity, which Is never act! vein relief against conscience or public convenience, has always refused Its aid to stale demands when the party slept upon hie right, and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth... | |
 | 1887 - 972 pages
...stale demands. The remark of Lord GAMDEN was approvingly quoted. " A court of equity which is never active in relief against conscience or public convenience...its aid to stale demands, where the party has slept on his rights VOL. VIII. — 74 964 or acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth... | |
 | 1902 - 1252 pages
...Camden, in Smith т. Clay, 3 Brown, Ch. 640, announces the principle in these words: "The court of equity has always refused its aid to stale demands, where the party has slept upon his rights and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this court into activity but conscience,... | |
 | 1888 - 890 pages
...Ch., G4U, note, stated it in a very pointed manner. "A court of equity," said he, " which is never active in relief against conscience or public convenience,...demands, where the party has slept upon his rights, or acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this court into activity but conscience,... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1892 - 736 pages
...note, Lord Camden, delivering the opinion of the court, truly said : "A court of equity, which is never active in relief against conscience or public convenience,...stale demands, where the party has slept upon his right, and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this court into activity but... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1912 - 666 pages
...following words of Lord Camden in Smith v. Clay, 3 Brown's Ch. Rep. 639: "A court of equity, which is never active in relief against conscience or public convenience,...stale demands, where the party has slept upon his right, and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this court into activity but... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1888 - 1024 pages
...active in relief against conscience or public convenience," said Lord Camden, in a celebrated case, " has always refused its aid to stale demands, where the party has slept upon his rights and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this court into activity but conscience,... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - 1889 - 768 pages
...Eliot Nat. Bank, 96 US (6 Otto) 611 ; bk. 21, L. ed. 855, 858, that "A court of equity, which Is never active in relief against conscience or public convenience has always refused its aid to stale demands, when the party has slept upon his right and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call... | |
 | District of Columbia. Supreme Court (1863-1936), Franklin Hubbell Mackey - 1890 - 678 pages
...his moral * * * right to enforce it." Wood on Limitation of Actions, Sec. 60, 121. A court of equity has always refused its aid to stale demands where the party has slept upon his rights fora great length of time. " Nothing can call forth" a court of equity " into activity but conscience,... | |
 | 1892 - 704 pages
...Smith v. Clay, 3 Brown, Ch. 639, Amb. 645, in these words ' That a court of equity, which is never active in relief against conscience or public convenience,...rights for a great length of time. Nothing can call this court into activity but conscience, good faith, and reasonable diligence. Where these are wanting... | |
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... and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this court into activity but conscience, good faith and reasonable diligence. 
