 ... and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this court into activity but conscience, good faith, and reasonable diligence; where these are wanting, the court is passive and does nothing. Laches and neglect are always discountenanced...  The Northwestern Reporter - Seite 1821889Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1922 - 848 Seiten
...point the oft-approved statement of Lord Camden in Smith v. Clay, 3 Bro. C. C, 640, is appropriate: 'A court of equity which is never active in relief...has always refused its aid to stale demands where a party has slept upon his rights and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1885 - 1744 Seiten
...is the period. Edwards v. Carrol, 5 Bro. Par. Cas. 466, is decisive, and not now open to argument. A court of equity, which is never active in relief...conscience, or public convenience, has always refused to aid stale demand?, where the party has slept upon his rights, and acquiesced for a great length... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1873 - 582 Seiten
...and 8 Ohio, before referred to. 333] *The demand is a stale one. "Equity will not aid a stale demand, where the party has slept upon his rights, and acquiesced for a great length of time." Bowman's Devisees et al. v. Wathen et al., 2 McLean, 396, and the cases there collected. SC, on appeal,... | |
 | Charles Francis Trower - 1876 - 164 Seiten
...other cases). The rule was thus laid down by Lord Camden : " A court of equity, which is never active against conscience or public convenience, has always...its aid to stale demands, where the party has slept on his right, and acquiesced for a great length of time" (6). It is not easy to see what this rule... | |
 | District of Columbia. Supreme Court (1863-1936), Arthur MacArthur - 1877 - 660 Seiten
...6 Johns. Ch., 369 ; Beckford vs. Wade, 17 Vesey, jr., 87 ; Peebles vs. Reading, 8 Serg. & R., 484. A court of equity, which is never active in relief...demands, where the party has slept upon his rights, or acquiesced for a great length of time. Pratt vs. Vattier, 9 Pet., 416; vide also Kane vs. Bloodgood,... | |
 | 1877 - 510 Seiten
...2 Jao. & Walker, Hi ; 2 Story's Eq. S 1520 (a). "A court of equity, which Is never active in giving relief against conscience or public convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands where a party boa slept upon his rights and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1877 - 910 Seiten
...Pleading. § 813, 814. In Smith ». Clay, Ambler, (Í45, Lord Caniden »aid : "A court of equity, which ¡s never active, in relief against conscience, or public convenience, has always refused its »id to stale demands, where the party has slept upon his right, and acquiesced fur a great length... | |
 | John Campbell Allen - 1878 - 714 Seiten
...Camden, in Smith v. Clay (c), " A Court "of Equity, which is never active in relief against con" science or public convenience, has always refused its aid...rights, and acquiesced for a great length of time." As between Ward Chipman, Jr., and Elizabeth Chipman, there may have been the relation of principal... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1878 - 808 Seiten
...an adverse right." 2 Story, Eq. Jur., sect. 1520. In Smith v. Clay (Arab. 645), Lord Camden said : " A court of equity, which is never active in relief...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... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1879 - 888 Seiten
...by Lord CAMDEN, in Smith v. Clay, .1 Brown's Chancery Reports, 639, in these words : " Thatacourtof equity, which is never active in relief against conscience...demands where the party has slept upon his rights for a great length of time. Nothing can call this court into activity but conscience, good faith and... | |
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