 | John Louis Taylor Sneed, Tennessee. Supreme Court - 1857 - 812 頁
...relief against conscience, or public convenience has John Lafferty, >> al., vst TW Turley, Ex'r, H al. always refused its aid to stale 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,... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1866 - 870 頁
...upon general principles of their own, even where there was no analogous statutable bar, refused relief to stale demands, where the party has slept upon his right, and acquiesced for a great length of time ; and, secondly, that, whenever a bar has been fixed by statutes to the legal remedy in a court of... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - 1868 - 732 頁
...Brown's Ch. Rep. 640,) which are as follows: "A court of equity, which is never active in relief against conscience or public convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands when the party has slept upon his rights, and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call... | |
 | Edmund Henry Turner Snell - 1872 - 640 頁
...Camden in Smith v. Clay, 3 " a court of subv«nit. equity, which is never active in relief against conscience or public convenience, has always refused...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... | |
 | Charles Francis Trower - 1876 - 164 頁
...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 refused...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 頁
...Peebles vs. Reading, 8 Serg. & R., 484. A court of equity, which is never active in relief against conscience or public convenience, has always refused...stale 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.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1877 - 908 頁
...; 2 Story's Eq., sect. 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 has slept upon his rights, and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1877 - 908 頁
...¡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 of time. Nothing can «ill forth this court into activity, but conscience, good... | |
 | John Campbell Allen - 1878 - 714 頁
...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...stale 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,... | |
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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... 
