 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 734 pages
...inequitable to grant the relief hedemands. Lord Camden, in Smith v. Clay, 3 BCC *639, *640, note, says : "A court of equity which is never active in relief...convenience, has always refused its aid, to stale demands, when the party slept upon his right, and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 924 pages
...statutable bar, refused relief to stale demands. More than one hundred years ago Lord Camden said : 'A court of equity, which is never active in relief against conscience or the public convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands where tl»e party has slept upon... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery, James Russell, James William Mylne - Equity - 1832 - 870 pages
...the counsel for the Defendant, referring to Smith v. Clay, cited the language of Lord Camden, that " a court of equity, which is never active in relief...right and acquiesced for a great length of time," the Master of the Rolls observed, " That was a bill of review I believe ; it is -clear there was a... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1838 - 486 pages
...adopt the principles laid down by Lord Camden in Smith v. Clay, in a note to Delorame v. Browne (15), "A court of equity, which is never active in relief...convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands, (15) 3 Bro. CC 639. where the party has slept upon his right, and acquiesced for a great length of... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords - Law reports, digests, etc - 1835 - 794 pages
...called into activity by such negligent plaintiffs. In the case of Smith v. Clay (d), Lord Camden says, " A Court of Equity, which is never active in relief...conscience or public convenience, has always refused its aid'to stale demands, where the party has slept upon his right, and acquiesced for a great length of... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1837 - 696 pages
...principles laid down by this Court, at the same term in which this cause was first before it. " A court cf equity, which is never active in relief against conscience,...refused its aid to stale demands, where the party slept upon his rights, or acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this Court... | |
 | Law - 1838 - 534 pages
...a Court of Equity would not help him? A Court of Equity, as Lord Camden said in Smith ?. Cl/iy, had always refused its aid to stale demands where the party has slept on his rights, and acquiesced for a great length of time. Where activity and reasonable diligence is... | |
 | John David Chambers - Children - 1842 - 1000 pages
...Smith ». Cliy, 3 B CC 369. conscience or public convenience, has always refused aid to stale PT. in. demands where the party has slept upon his right, and acquiesced for Ci^vi's^iv. a great length of time ; and where good faith, conscience, and a reasonable diligence are... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1843 - 460 pages
...become obscured by time, and the evidence may be lost. Ibid. 16. A court of equity, which never is active in relief against conscience or public convenience,...has always refused its aid. to stale demands, where tlie party has slept upon his rights for a great length of tune. CHANCERY. Nothing can call forth this... | |
 | Law - 1844 - 510 pages
...justice, when the original transactions have become obscured by time, and the evidence may be lost. 76. 7. A court of equity, which is never active in relief...to stale demands where the party has slept upon his rights for a great length of time. Hoicmun and others v. Wathen and others, ib. 189. 8. Therefore,... | |
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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. 
