Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon Quotes

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.

Precedent goes in support of justice.

A plaintiff who comes into a Court of justice must show that he is in a condition to maintain his action.

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

Some modern cases have in my opinion gone too far.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I do not know how far I ought to sit here and suffer a gentleman at the bar to bring forward parts of the Bible in this way. It is for you, gentlemen of the jury, to say whether you wish to hear them read.

Those regulations that are adapted to the common race of men are the best.

Two universities have been founded in this country, amply endowed and furnished with professors in the different sciences; and I should be sorry that those who have been educated at either of them should undervalue the benefits of such an education.