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
