4 Sentences With "strictnesses"

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The literary prophets indicate that adultery was a frequent occurrence, despite their strong protests against it, and these legal strictnesses.
The literary prophets indicate that adultery was a frequent occurrence, despite their strong protests against it,; ; ; and these legal strictnesses.
Second, the Court of Chancery, though it may have mitigated the petty strictnesses of the common law of property, was seen as cumbersome and arcane. It was subjected to ridicule in books like Charles Dickens' Bleak House and his fictional case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, an inheritance question or dispute that nobody understood, dragged on for generations and ended in costs having devoured the property held in chancery (chiefly for safekeeping).J Martin, Modern Equity (17th edn 2005) 13-15. Cases in Lord Eldon's court had indeed lasted up to 18 years.
Chancellors became more concerned to standardise and harmonise equitable principles. At the start of the 19th century in Gee v Pritchard, referring to John Selden's quip, Lord Eldon (1801–1827) said 'Nothing would inflict upon me greater pain in quitting this place than the recollection that I had done anything to justify the reproach that the equity of this court varies like the Chancellor's foot.'(1818) 2 Swan 402, 414 The Court of Chancery was meant to have mitigated the petty strictnesses of the common law of property. But instead, came to be seen as cumbersome and arcane.