Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon Quote

It is impossible for the Court to foresee when a sentence begins how it will end, and, sometimes, mischief is done before we are sure that the sentence will conclude in an offensive manner.


Williams' Case (1797), 26 How. St. Tr. 709.


It is impossible for the Court to foresee when a sentence begins how it will end, and, sometimes, mischief is done before we are sure that the...

It is impossible for the Court to foresee when a sentence begins how it will end, and, sometimes, mischief is done before we are sure that the...

It is impossible for the Court to foresee when a sentence begins how it will end, and, sometimes, mischief is done before we are sure that the...

It is impossible for the Court to foresee when a sentence begins how it will end, and, sometimes, mischief is done before we are sure that the...