 | Horace Gay Wood - 1893 - 598 sidor
...right.1 SEC. 214. Stale Trusts not favored in Equity. — "A court of equity," says LORO CAMDEX, " which is never active in relief against conscience...demands, where the party has slept upon his rights. Nothing can call forth this court into activity but good conscience, good faith, and reasonable diligence.... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1893 - 1034 sidor
...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...always refused its aid to stale demands, where the parly has slept upon his right, and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this... | |
 | Horace Gay Wood - 1893 - 584 sidor
...carefully considered,5 LORD CAMDEN, in delivering the opinion of the court, said : " A 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,... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division - 1905 - 778 sidor
...trust against an express trustee." In section 419 the words of an English chancellor are quoted : " A court of equity which is never active in relief...or public convenience, has always refused its aid THIHD DEPARTMENT, SKPTEMBEU, 1905. [Vol. 107. to stale demands where the party has slept upon his rights,... | |
 | 1896 - 1216 sidor
...indolent." This maxim was expressed by Lord Camden in Smith v. Clay, 3 Brown, Ch. 640, note, as follows: "A court of equity, which is never active in relief against conscience or public convenience, lias always refused its aid to stale demands, where the party has slept upon his right and acquiesced... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1897 - 784 sidor
...classes of cases, except, perhaps, those brought to enforce a trust against an express trustee. * * * A court of equity which is never active in relief...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,... | |
 | Charles Fisk Beach - 1897 - 1100 sidor
...doctrine of Lord Camden, referred to in the text, is as follows '•That a court of equity, which never is active in relief against conscience or public convenience,...slept upon his rights for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this court into activity but conscience, good faith, and reasonable diligence.... | |
 | Sir William Henry Rattigan - 1899 - 464 sidor
...indolent. The reason of this rule is best explained in the words of Lord Camden in Smith v. Clay:* — "A Court of Equity, which is never active in relief...slept upon his rights for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth into activity but conscience, good faith, and reasonable diligence." Thus, in... | |
 | Tennessee. Supreme Court, William Wilcox Cooke, Joseph Brown Heiskell, Jere Baxter, Benjamin James Lea, George Wesley Pickle, Charles Theodore Cates, Frank Marian Thompson, Charles Le Sueur Cornelius, Roy Hood Beeler - 1899 - 832 sidor
...cases. Mr. Pomeroy says the doctrine applies to cases against conscience or public convenience, and where the party has slept upon his rights for a great length of time. Conscience, good faith, and reasonable diligence are the requisites. Pom. Eq., 419, and cases. ''Laches... | |
 | 1904 - 1222 sidor
...the counsel for the Defendant, referring to Smith v. Cla//, cited the language of Lord Camden, that "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," the Master of the Rolls observed, "That was a bill... | |
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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. 
