Peter Vivian Daniel

“ If Bowman, by negligence, of by a failure to look after and protect his own interests, permit the title of another to grow into full maturity, he thereby recognises the force of the principle of the bar by lapse of time, which creates a title as complete in equity as would be imparted by an express conveyance. ”

“ Such a proceeding would not accord with the maxims of a court 'which is never active to give relief against conscience or public convenience,' or 'to a party who has slept upon his rights;' a court which 'nothing can call forth into activity put conscience, good faith, and reasonable diligence.' In this instance the complainants have slept, long slept upon their rights; by their want of reasonable diligence, others have been induced to embark in an undertaking against which these complainants had power to warn them ”

“ The real question involved touches neither the definition of ferry privileges nor the modes of their enjoyment; but relates exclusively to the propriety of interfering, at the instance of the complainants below, with those rights as they now are and have been enjoyed by the defendants, and of transferring such rights and enjoyment to the complainants themselves. The complainants are invoking the aid of a court of equity: if they have perfect rights, proper for the cognisance of a different forum, they can have no standing here ”