 | Mississippi. Supreme Court - 1914 - 1048 頁
...convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands when the party has slept upon its rights acquired for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this court into activity but consicience, good faith, and reasonable diligence. In early times limitations were confined to law.... | |
 | David Thomas Marvel, John W. Houston, Samuel Maxwell Harrington, James Pennewill, William Henry Boyce, William Watson Harrington, Charles L. Terry, William J. Storey - 1884 - 658 頁
...their own, even where there was no analagous statutable bar, refused relief to stale demands where a party has slept upon his right and acquiesced for a great length of time ; and secondly, that whenever a bar has been fixed by statute to the legal remedy in a court of law,... | |
 | 1922 - 952 頁
...the statutes of limitation, they have always discountenanced laches and neglect; and refused their aid to stale demands where the party has slept upon his right, or acquiesced for a great length of time. After a considerable lapse of time, they refuse to interfere,... | |
 | Mississippi. Supreme Court - 1856 - 878 頁
...has ever since been sanctioned, thus: — "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... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1881 - 784 頁
...general convenience, may refuse to intervene for the relief of a dowrcss, who has slept upon her rights. "Nothing can call forth this court into activity, but conscience, good faith, and VOL. LXIV. [Abraham v. Alford.] reasonable diligence." — Smith v. Clay, 3 Bro. CC f>3'.), note. When... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1873 - 518 頁
...always refuses its aid to stale demands, where the party has slept on his rights, or acquiesced fora great length of time. Nothing can call forth this...conscience, good faith, and reasonable diligence. Smith «. Clay, 3 Bro. CC 640; Jones v. Tuberville, 2 Ves. 11 ; Cholmondeley v. Clinton, 2 Jac. & Walk.... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1885 - 1744 頁
...3 Brown's Chan. 640, Lord Camdeu says : "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. Nothing can call forth this court into activity but... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1911 - 662 頁
...v. Clay, 3 Bro. CC, 640, is appropriate: "A court of equity which is never active in 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... | |
 | 1912 - 1360 頁
...Smith v. Clay, 3 Brown's Cb. Rep. 640: "A court of equity, which is never active in relief against conscience or public convenience, has always refused...right, and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing1 can call forth this court into activity but conscience, good faith, and reasonable diligence... | |
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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... 
