“A Court of equity knows its own province.”
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Mayor, &c. of Southampton v. Graves (1800), 8 T. R. 592.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon, , was a British politician and barrister, who served as Attorney General, Master of the Rolls and Lord Chief Justice. Born to a country gentleman, he was initially educated in Hanmer before moving to Ruthin School aged 12. Rather than going to university he instead worked as a clerk to an attorney, joining the Middle Temple in 1750 and being called to the Bar in 1756. Initially almost unemployed due to the lack of education and contacts which a university education would have provided, his business increased thanks to his friendships with John Dunning, who, overwhelmed with cases, allowed Kenyon to work many, and Lord Thurlow who secured for him the Chief Justiceship of Chester in 1780. He was returned as the Member of Parliament for Hindon the same year, serving repeatedly as Attorney General under William Pitt the Younger. He effectively sacrificed his political career in 1784 to challenge the ballot of Charles James Fox, and was rewarded with a baronetcy; from then on he did not speak in the House of Commons, despite remaining an MP.
On 27 March 1784, he was appointed Master of the Rolls, a job to which he dedicated himself once he ceased to act as an MP. He had previously practised in the Court of Chancery, and although unfamiliar with Roman law was highly efficient; Lord Eldon said "I am mistaken if, after I am gone, the Chancery Records do not prove that if I have decided more than any of my predecessors in the same period of time, Sir Lloyd Kenyon beat us all". On 9 June 1788, Kenyon succeeded Lord Mansfield as Lord Chief Justice, and was granted a barony. Although not rated as highly as his predecessor, his work "restored the simplicity and rigor of the common law". He remained Lord Chief Justice until his death in 1802. Wikipedia

“A Court of equity knows its own province.”
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Mayor, &c. of Southampton v. Graves (1800), 8 T. R. 592.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
The King v. Inhabitants of St. Paul's, Bedford (1797), 6 T. R. 454.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
King v. Stone (1800), 1 East, 650.
“In the hurry of business, the most able Judges are liable to err.”
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Cotton v. Thurland (1793), 5 T. R. 409.
“All laws stand on the best and broadest basis which go to enforce moral and social duties.”
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Pasley v. Freeman (1789), 3 T. R. 51.
“He had no right to take the law into his own hands.”
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Tarleton v. McGawley (1795), 2 Peake, N. P. Ca. 208
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
King v. Suddis (1800), 1 East, 314. Lord Kenyon is later reported to have written, "I once before had occasion to refer to the opinion of a most eminent Judge, who was a great Crown lawyer, upon the subject, I mean Lord Hale; who even in his time lamented the too great strictness which had been required in indictments, and which had grown to be a blemish and inconvenience in the law; and observed that more offenders escaped by the over easy ear given to exceptions in indictments than by their own innocence". King v. Airey (c. 1800), 2 East, 34.
“The practice of the Court forms the law of the Court.”
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Wilson v. Rastall (1792), 4 T. R. 757.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Clayton v. Adams (1796), 6 T. R. 605.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Morton v. Lamb (1797), 7 T. R. 129.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Wilson v. Marryat (1798), 8 T. R. 44.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Trial of John Vint and others (1799), 27 How. St. Tr. 640.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Rex v. Rusby (1800), Peake's N. P. Ca. 193.
“What a man does in his closet ought not to affect the rights of third persons.”
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Outram v. Morewood (1793), 5 T. R. 123.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Holt's Case (1793), 22 How. St. Tr. 1234.
“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
Wright v. Barnard (1797), 2 Esp. 701.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
King v. The College of Physicians (1797), 7 T. R. 288.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Bradley and another v. Clark (1793), 5 T. R. 201.
“Some modern cases have in my opinion gone too far.”
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Walford v. Duchess de Pienne (1797), 2 Esp. 555.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Case of John Lambert and others (1793), 22 How. St. Tr. 1018.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Reeves' Case (1796), 26 How. St. Tr. 591.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
R. v. Inhabitants of Darlington (1792), 4 T. R. 800.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Pasley v. Freeman (1789), 3 T. R. 51.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Turtle v. Hartwell (1795), 6 T. R. 429.
“That corporations are the creatures of the Crown must be universally admitted.”
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
King v. Ginever (1796), 6 T. R. 735.
“Modus in rebus—there must be an end of things.”
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Proceedings against the Dean of St. Asaph (1783), 21 How. St. Tr. 875.
“What is clear to one man may be doubtful to another.”
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Godfrey v. Hudson (1788), 2 Esp. 500.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Trial of John Vint and others (1799), 27 How. St. Tr. 640.
“We ought not to decide hastily against the words of an Act of Parliament.”
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
King v. Justices of Flintshire (1797), 7 T. R. 200.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Trial of the Earl of Thanet, and others (1799), 27 How. St. Tr. 940.
“A man may publish anything which twelve of his countrymen think not blamable.”
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Cuthell's Case (1799), 27 How. St. Tr. 675.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Eaton's Case (1793)
“Every irregularity is not erroneous.”
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Jackson v. Hunter (1794), 6 T. R. 74.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Holt's Case (1793), 22 How. St. Tr. 1234.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Stone's Case (1796), 25 How. St. Tr. 1290.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
King v. Harris (1797), 7 T. R. 238.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Duke of Leeds v. New Radnor (1788), 2 Brown's Rep. (by Belt), 339.
“We must judge of a man's motives from his overt acts.”
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
King v. Waddington (1800), 1 East, 158.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Jennings v. Rundall (1799), 8 T.R. 337.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
King v. Harris (1797), 7 T. R. 239.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Rex v. Rusby (1800), Peake's N. P. Cases 192.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Booth v. Hodgson (1795), 6 T. R. 408.
“Those regulations that are adapted to the common race of men are the best.”
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
King v. The College of Physicians (1797), 7 T. R. 288.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Stone's Case (1796), 25 How. St. Tr. 1423.
“Justice requires that a party should be duly summoned and fully heard before he is condemned.”
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
King v. Stone (1800), 1 East, 649.
“Proceedings at law are sufficiently expensive.”
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Marriott v. Hampton (1797), 2 Esp. 548.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
King v. Inhabitants of North Nibley (1792), 5 T. R. 24; Lord Romilly, Lord v. Jeffkins (1865), 35 Beav. 16.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Cross v. Glode (1797), 2 Esp. 575.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Case of John Lambert and others (1793), 22 How. St. Tr. 1016.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
The King v. Inhabitants of Eriswell (1790), 3 T. R. 722.
“Precedent goes in support of justice.”
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Smith v. Bowles (1797), 2 Esp. 578.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Rex v. Rusby (1800), Peake's N. P. Cases, 193.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Doe d. Willis and others v. Martin and others (1790), 4 T. R. 65.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Withnell v. Gartham (1795), 6 T. R. 397.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Bauerman v. Eadenius (1798), 7 T. R. 667.
“The popish religion is now unknown to the law of this country.”
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Du Barre v. Livette (1791), Peake's N. P. Cases, 79.
“It is sometimes difficult to get rid of first impressions.”
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Withnell v. Gartham (1795), 6 T. R. 396.