 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 662 pages
...oftapproved statement of Lord Camden in Smith v. Clay, 3 Bro. CC, 640, is appropriate: "A court of equity which is never active in relief against conscience...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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 1744 pages
...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 against 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... | |
 | Charles Francis Trower - Courts - 1876 - 164 pages
...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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 660 pages
...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 against conscience...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,... | |
 | Law - 1877 - 510 pages
...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 - Equity - 1877 - 908 pages
...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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 808 pages
...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 against conscience...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... | |
 | John Campbell Allen - 1878 - 714 pages
...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...demands, where the party has slept upon his " rights, and acquiesced for a great length of time." As between Ward Chipman, Jr., and Elizabeth Chipman, there... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 2060 pages
...equity. In the case of Smith v. Clay, 3 Brown, Ch. 642, note, it is said by Lord Camden: "A court of equity, which is never active in relief against conscience...demands, where the party has slept upon his rights, and acquiesced for a groat length of time. Nothing can call forth this court into activity but conscience,... | |
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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. 
