 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1847 - 556 pages
...Chancellor Kent in this opinion says, " But while I assert the authority of the court to sustain such bills, I am not to be understood as encouraging applications...not pretty strongly displayed. Perhaps the cases may be all reconciled on the general principle, that the exercise of this power is to be regulated by sound... | |
 | Robert Henley Eden Baron Henley - Forms (Law) - 1852 - 680 pages
...whether or not it was good at law. But, while I assert the authority of the court to sustain such bills, I am not to be understood as encouraging applications where the fitness of tho exercise of the power of the court is not pretty strongly displayed. Perhaps tho cases may all... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1857 - 904 pages
...emphatic language : " but while I assert" (he says) " the authority of the court to sustain such bills, I am not to be understood as encouraging applications...the court is not pretty strongly displayed. Perhaps" (he adds) " the cases may all be reconciled on the general principle that the exercise of this power... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1858 - 744 pages
...maintained in that case as follows : " But while I assert the authority of the Court to sustain such bills, I am not to be understood as encouraging applications...not pretty strongly displayed. Perhaps the cases may be well reconciled on the general principle that the exeijcnso of this power is to be regulated by... | |
 | United States. Circuit Courts, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 648 pages
...leading English cases, says : " But, while I assert the authority of the court to sustain such bills, I am not to be understood as encouraging applications...court is not pretty strongly displayed. Perhaps," he adds, " the cases may all be reconciled on the general principle, that the exercise of this power... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 724 pages
...taken in the case ; but he adds, " While I assert the authority of the court to sustain such bills, I am not to be understood as encouraging applications...power of the court is not pretty strongly displayed." Whatever may be the precise limits of this jurisdiction, however, it is plain that the present case... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1164 pages
...proof taken in the cause. * * * But while I assert the authority of the court to sustain such bills, I am not to be understood as encouraging applications,...not pretty strongly displayed. Perhaps the cases may be reconciled on the general principle that the exercise of this power is to be regulated by sound... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 892 pages
...to act. This is his language: "But while I assert the authority of the court to sustain such bills, I am not to be understood as encouraging applications...power of the court is not pretty strongly displayed. The exercise of tMs power 'is to be regulated by a sound discretion, as the circumstances of the case... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 990 pages
...13 void upon its face or for matter appearing from proof taken in the case; and that the cases can all be reconciled on the general principle that the...power is to be regulated by sound discretion as the peculiar circumstances of each case may dictate, and that the resort to equity, to bo sustained, must... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - Equitable remedies - 1899 - 850 pages
...Johns. Ch. 517, Chancellor Kent stated the rule concerning the exercise of the jurisdiction u follows: " Perhaps the cases may all be reconciled on the general...discretion, as the circumstances of the individual cases may dictate, and that the resort to equity, to be sustained, must be expedient, either because... | |
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The opinion of this learned chancellor is greatly respected by this court. He modifies it in some degree by afterwards saying, " but, while I assert the authority of the court to sustain such bills, I am not to be understood as encouraging applications... 
