 ... 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
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1888 - 1024 Seiten
...whether there is a demurrer or formal plea of the statute of limitations contained in the answer." "A court of equity, which is never 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... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - 1889 - 768 Seiten
...by Justice Harlan, in Hayward v, 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...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 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Hampton Lawrence Carson - 1892 - 472 Seiten
...variety of topics discussed, we find the doctrine laid down by Lord Camden examined and confirmed : that a court of equity, which is never active in relief...demands, where the party has slept upon his rights for a great length of time. Nothing but conscience, good faith, and reasonable diligence can call the... | |
 | 1892 - 704 Seiten
...been clearly stated by Lord CAMPEN in Smith v. Clay, 3 Brown, Ch. 639, Amb. 645, in these words ' That a court of equity, which is never active in relief...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... | |
 | 1892 - 1128 Seiten
...unanimous approval by coures and text-writers: "A court of equity, which is never active in relief agaiuet conscience or public convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands, where the party slept upon his rights and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can- call forth i in- court... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1893 - 1042 Seiten
...Smith v. Clay, 3 Brown Ch. 640, note, Lord Camden, delivering the opinion of the court, truly said: "A court of equity, which is never active in relief...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... | |
 | Jonathan George Norton Darby, Frederick Albert Bosanquet - 1893 - 896 Seiten
...These principles cannot, perhaps, be generally stated better than in the words of Lord Cainden (1) : " A Court of Equity, which is never active in relief...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... | |
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