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.
The discussion which was made by Luther, Melancthon, and the other persons who preceded the Reformation, opened the eyes or the public; and they got rid of the delusions which had been spread by the Pope of Rome, and emancipated mankind from the spiritual tyranny they were under, and brought about the establishment of that religion which we now enjoy in this country.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Reeves' Case (1754), 26 How. St. Tr. 591.
Modus in rebus there must be an end of things.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Proceedings against the Dean of St. Asaph (1783), 21 How. St. Tr. 875.
The use of cases is to establish principles; if the cases decide different from the principles, I must follow the principles, not the decisions.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Duke of Leeds v. New Radnor (1788), 2 Brown's Rep. (by Belt), 339.
What is clear to one man may be doubtful to another.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Godfrey v. Hudson (1788), 2 Esp. 500.
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.
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 popish religion is now unknown to the law of this country.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Du Barre v. Livette (1791), Peake's N. P. Cases, 79.
It is of infinite importance to the public that the acts of magistrates should not only be substantially good, but also that they should be decorous.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— The King v. Sainsbury (1791), 4 T. R. 456.
The family consists of those who live under the same roof with the pater familias ; those who form (if I may use the expression) his fire-side.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— R. v. Inhabitants of Darlington (1792), 4 T. R. 800.
Though this motion for a new trial is an application to the discretion of the Court, it must be remembered that the discretion to be exercised on such an occasion is not a wild but a sound discretion, and to be confined within those limits within which an honest man, competent to discharge the duties of his office, ought to confine himself. And that discretion will be best exercised by not deviating from the rules laid down by our predecessors; for the practice of the Court forms the law of the Court.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Wilson v. Rastall (1792), 4 T. R. 757.
The practice of the Court forms the law of the Court.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Wilson v. Rastall (1792), 4 T. R. 757.
He had no right to take the law into his own hands.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Tarleton v. McGawley (1795), 2 Peake, N. P. Ca. 208
It is of great importance that the laws by which the contracts of so numerous and so useful a body of men as the sailors are supposed to be guided, should not be overturned.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Cutter v. Powell (1795), 6 T. R. 320.
It is sometimes difficult to get rid of first impressions.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Withnell v. Gartham (1795), 6 T. R. 396.
A Court of equity can mould interests differently from a Court of law; and can give relief in cases where a Court of law cannot.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Clayton v. Adams (1796), 6 T. R. 605.
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.
Those regulations that are adapted to the common race of men are the best.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— King v. The College of Physicians (1797), 7 T. R. 288.
If people with the very best intentions carry on prosecutions that are oppressive, the end may not always perhaps sanctify the means.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Williams' Case (1797), 26 How. St. Tr. 704.
A conviction is in the nature of a verdict and judgment, and therefore it must be precise and certain.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— King v. Harris (1797), 7 T. R. 238.
I take it that the judgment is an essential point in every conviction, let the punishment be fixed or not.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— King v. Harris (1797), 7 T. R. 239.
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.
Precedent goes in support of justice.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Smith v. Bowles (1797), 2 Esp. 578.
Notwithstanding all the care and anxiety of the persons who frame Acts of Parliament to guard against every event, it frequently turns out that certain cases were not foreseen.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Farmer v. Legg (1797), 7 T. R. 190.
We ought not to decide hastily against the words of an Act of Parliament.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— King v. Justices of Flintshire (1797), 7 T. R. 200.
Proceedings at law are sufficiently expensive.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Marriott v. Hampton (1797), 2 Esp. 548.
The liberty of the press is dear to England; the licentiousness of the press is odious to England: the liberty of it can never be so well protected as by beating down the licentiousness.
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon— Cuthell's Case (1799), 27 How. St. Tr. 674.
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.
