 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 890 pages
...Clay, 3 Brown's Ch., G4U, note, stated it in a very pointed manner. "A court of equity," said he, " 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. Nothing can call forth this court into activity but conscience,... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 666 pages
...with approval the 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...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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 736 pages
...Brown, Ch. Rep., 640, note, Lord Camden, delivering the opinion of the court, truly said : "A court of equity, which is never active in relief against conscience...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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 1024 pages
...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 - Railroad law - 1889 - 768 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Hampton Lawrence Carson - Judges - 1892 - 472 pages
...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 against conscience...upon his rights for a great length of time. Nothing but conscience, good faith, and reasonable diligence can call the court into activity. Where these... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 1128 pages
...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... | |
 | Jonathan George Norton Darby, Frederick Albert Bosanquet - Limitation of actions - 1893 - 896 pages
...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 against conscience...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... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 1042 pages
...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 against conscience...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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... and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this court into activity but conscience, good faith and reasonable diligence. 
