Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon Quotes
October 5, 1732 – April 4, 1802
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It is a rule that those who come into a Court of justice to seek redress, must come with clean hands, and must disclose a transaction warranted by law.
Petrie v. Hannay (1789), 3 T. R. 422. 
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The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Turtle v. Hartwell (1795), 6 T. R. 429.
That corporations are the creatures of the Crown must be universally admitted.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— King v. Ginever (1796), 6 T. R. 735.
There are certain irregularities which are not the subject of criminal law. But when the criminal law happens to be auxiliary to the law of morality, I do not feel any inclination to explain it away.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Young and others v. The King (1789), 3 T. R. 102.
There are many situations in life, and particularly in the commercial world, where a man cannot by any diligence inform himself of the degree of credit which ought to be given to the persons with whom he deals; in which cases he must apply to those whose sources of intelligence enable them to give that information. The law of prudence leads him to apply to them, and the law of morality ought to induce them to give the information required.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Pasley v. Freeman (1789), 3 T. R. 51.
There are cases where examinations are admitted, namely, before the coroner, and before magistrates in cases of felony. That appears to me to go rather in support of the general rule than in destruction of it. Every exception that can be accounted for is so much a confirmation of the rule that it has become a maxim, Exceptio probat regulam.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— The King v. Inhabitants of Eriswell (1790), 3 T. R. 722.
No stops are ever inserted in Acts of Parliament, or in deeds; but the Courts of law, in construing them, must read them with such stops as will give effect to the whole.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Doe d. Willis and others v. Martin and others (1790), 4 T. R. 65.
The practice of the Court forms the law of the Court.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Wilson v. Rastall (1792), 4 T. R. 757.
There is no magic in words.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— King v. Inhabitants of North Nibley (1792), 5 T. R. 24; Lord Romilly, Lord v. Jeffkins (1865), 35 Beav. 16.
In the hurry of business, the most able Judges are liable to err.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Cotton v. Thurland (1793), 5 T. R. 409.
Equity will go no further than the law.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Tooke v. Hollingworth (1793), 5 T. R. 225.
What a man does in his closet ought not to affect the rights of third persons.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Outram v. Morewood (1793), 5 T. R. 123.
It is a maxim in our law that a plaintiff must shew that he stands on a fair ground when he calls on a Court of justice to administer relief to him.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Booth v. Hodgson (1795), 6 T. R. 409.
Courts of equity make their decrees so as to arrive at the justice of the case without violating the rules of law.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Clayton v. Adams (1796), 6 T. R. 605.
We must not, by any whimsical conceits supposed to be adapted to the altering fashions of the times, overturn the established law of the land: it descended to us as a sacred charge, and it is our duty to preserve it.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Clayton v. Adams (1796), 6 T. R. 605.
Concessions made for the purpose of settling the business for which the action is brought, cannot be given in evidence; but facts admitted I have always received.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Turner v. Railton (1796), 2 Esp. 475.
Concessions made for the purpose of settling the business for which the action is brought, cannot be given in evidence; but facts admitted I have always received.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Turner v. Railton (1796), 2 Esp. 475.
We are all desirous to sit as long as we can, but necessity justifies that which it compels; the strength of man is not adequate to this. Lord Mansfield, as little inclined to give way as any man, did give way at a certain hour in the case of Lord Pomfret.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Stone's Case (1796), 25 How. St. Tr. 1290.
Sitting in a Court of law, I can receive no evidence but what comes under the sanction of an oath.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Wright v. Barnard (1797), 2 Esp. 701.
Apprentices and servants are characters perfectly distinct: the one receives instruction, the other a stipulated price for his labour.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— The King v. Inhabitants of St. Paul's, Bedford (1797), 6 T. R. 454.
Some modern cases have in my opinion gone too far.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Walford v. Duchess de Pienne (1797), 2 Esp. 555.
Whatever might have been my opinion, had this been a new case, I must hold myself bound by decided cases.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Cross v. Glode (1797), 2 Esp. 575.
A plaintiff who comes into a Court of justice must show that he is in a condition to maintain his action.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Morton v. Lamb (1797), 7 T. R. 129.
Precedent goes in support of justice.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Smith v. Bowles (1797), 2 Esp. 578.
A man may publish anything which twelve of his countrymen think not blamable.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Cuthell's Case (1799), 27 How. St. Tr. 675.
A Court of equity knows its own province.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Mayor, &c. of Southampton v. Graves (1800), 8 T. R. 592.
It is our duty to take care that persons in pursuing their own particular interests do not transgress those laws which were made for the benefit of the whole community.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— King v. Waddington (1800), 1 East, 158.
I have often thought since that there is sound sense in what was once said by the late Lord C. J. Eyre, that the sooner a bad precedent was gotten rid of, the better.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— King v. Stone (1800), 1 East, 648 n. (a).
Justice requires that a party should be duly summoned and fully heard before he is condemned.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— King v. Stone (1800), 1 East, 649.
The interest of the public is never better advanced than when we can inculcate by our rules the advantage of acting honestly.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Cuming v. Sharland (1801), 1 East, 413.
