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Some modern cases have in my opinion gone too far.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
He had no right to take the law into his own hands.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
What is clear to one man may be doubtful to another.

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

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
It is sometimes difficult to get rid of first impressions.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
The popish religion is now unknown to the law of this country.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
In the hurry of business, the most able Judges are liable to err.

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

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Those regulations that are adapted to the common race of men are the best.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
A man may publish anything which twelve of his countrymen think not blamable.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
What a man does in his closet ought not to affect the rights of third persons.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
That corporations are the creatures of the Crown must be universally admitted.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
To enter into the hearts of men belongs to him who can explore the human heart.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
All laws stand on the best and broadest basis which go to enforce moral and social duties.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Justice requires that a party should be duly summoned and fully heard before he is condemned.

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
A conviction is in the nature of a verdict and judgment, and therefore it must be precise and certain.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Whatever might have been my opinion, had this been a new case, I must hold myself bound by decided cases.

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
I take it that the judgment is an essential point in every conviction, let the punishment be fixed or not.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
It is not for human judgment to dive into the heart of man, to know whether his intentions are good or evil.

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
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
The interest of the public is never better advanced than when we can inculcate by our rules the advantage of acting honestly.

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
The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
If people with the very best intentions carry on prosecutions that are oppressive, the end may not always perhaps sanctify the means.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Apprentices and servants are characters perfectly distinct: the one receives instruction, the other a stipulated price for his labour.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
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.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
The use of cases is to establish principles; if the cases decide different from the principles, I must follow the principles, not the decisions.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon