Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon - Acts Quotes

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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.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
In many cases a party undertakes to prove a custom from the time of legal memory, the reign of Richard the Second; but that proof is generally established by evidence of acts done at a much later period, and frequently no evidence is given beyond the present century.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
With regard to the construction of statutes according to the intention of the legislature, we must remember that there is an essential difference between the expounding of modern and ancient Acts of Parliament. In early times the legislature used (and I believe it was a wise course to take) to pass laws in general and in few terms; they were left to the Courts of law to be construed so as to reach all the cases within the mischief to be remedied. But in modern times great care has been taken to mention the particular cases in the contemplation of the legislature, and therefore the Courts are not permitted to take the same liberty in construing them as they did in expounding the ancient statutes.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
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.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
We must judge of a man's motives from his overt acts.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
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.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
We ought not to decide hastily against the words of an Act of Parliament.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon