 | 1887 - 972 頁
...of Lord GAMDEN was approvingly quoted. " A court of equity which is never active in relief against conscience or public convenience has always refused...its aid to stale demands, where the party has slept on his rights or acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this court into activity... | |
 | Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - 1887 - 654 頁
...the assertion of an adverse right." (Hayward v. Nat. Bank, 93 US 611.) "Nothing," said Lord Camden, " can call forth this court into activity but conscience, good faith, and reasonable diligence. When these are wanting, the court is passive and does nothing. Laches and neglect are always discountenanced."... | |
 | 1917 - 390 頁
...not given. Such a delay in the assertion of a right is frowned upon by the law. "A court of equity has always refused its aid to stale demands, where...acquiesced for a great length of time^ Nothing can call this court into activity but conscience, good faith and reasonable diligence; where these are wanting... | |
 | 1888 - 890 頁
...it in a very pointed manner. "A court of equity," said he, " 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. Nothing can call forth this court into activity but... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1888 - 1024 頁
...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 has slept upon his rights and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this court into activity but... | |
 | 1888 - 864 頁
...the vigilant and active, not the sleeping and indolent. " Nothing," in the language of Lord Camden, " can call forth this court into activity but conscience, good faith, and reasonable diligence. When these are wanting, the court is passive, and does nothing ": Smith v. Clay, 3 Bro. CC 639, note.... | |
 | West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, Edgar P. Rucker - 1889 - 734 頁
...of equity, which is never active in relief against stale demands, will always refuse relief wliere the party has slept upon his right, and acquiesced, for a great length of time. Nothing can call into activity this court but conscience, good faith, and reasonable diligence. Where those are wanting,... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - 1889 - 768 頁
...Otto) 611 ; bk. 21, L. ed. 855, 858, that "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 right and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call... | |
 | District of Columbia. Supreme Court (1863-1936), Franklin Hubbell Mackey - 1890 - 678 頁
...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 for a great length of time. " Nothing can call forth" a court of equity " into activity but... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1891 - 1036 頁
...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...conscience, good faith, and reasonable diligence," was the utterance of a distinguished English chancellor. If appellants or their ancestor ever had &... | |
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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... 
