Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon Quote

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.


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...

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...

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...

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...