Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon - Court Quotes

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The learned counsel has very properly avoided all political discussions unconnected with the subject, and I shall follow his example. Courts of justice have nothing to do with them.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
A plaintiff who comes into a Court of justice must show that he is in a condition to maintain his action.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
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.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Sitting in a Court of law, I can receive no evidence but what comes under the sanction of an oath.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
I should be extremely sorry to find that in a fictitious proceeding, instituted for the more easy attaining of justice, different rules were to obtain in the different Courts.

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
If an infant commit an assault, or utter slander, God forbid that he should not be answerable for it in a Court of justice.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
It is necessary for Courts of Justice to hold a strict hand over summary proceedings before magistrates, and I never will agree to relax any of the rules by which they have been bound. Their jurisdiction is of a limited nature, and they must shew that the party was brought within it.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
We are obliged to hear all that witnesses have to say; but it is a canticle of Courts of justice that witnesses non numerentur sed ponderentur: they are not to be numbered but weighed. It is the nature of the human mind, it is the perfection of the human heart, to serve a friend in distress; but in doing so, a man should not transgress the higher calls of religion and morality, the obligations of an oath. We are not monks and recluses, as was said in another place,1 but come from a class in society that I hope and believe gives us opportunities of seeing as much of the world, and that has as much virtue amongst its members as any other, however elevated.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
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.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
I hope that there is no jealousy, or even ground of jealousy, on the part of the Americans, but that they know that when their rights come to be discussed here the greatest attention will be paid to their interests. They have long been acquainted with the habits of this country, and with the mode of administering justice here : until within these few years their causes used to come over here to be discussed, and I never heard that the decisions in our Courts ever awakened the least jealousy in the breasts of the inhabitants of that country.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
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.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
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.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
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.

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
Courts of equity make their decrees so as to arrive at the justice of the case without violating the rules of law.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
It is the great duty of every Court of justice to administer justice as well as they can between the litigating parties ; another, and not less material, duty is to satisfy those parties that the whole case has been examined and considered.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon