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Lloyd Kenyon , est un homme politique britannique et avocat, qui est procureur général, maître des rôles et Lord Chief Justice. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. octobre 1732 – 4. avril 1802
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Lloyd Kenyon: Citations en anglais

“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.”

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Petrie v. Hannay (1789), 3 T. R. 422.

“I have heard that it was the perfection of the administration of criminal justice to take care that the punishment should come to few and the example to many.”

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Eaton's Case (1793)

“A man may publish anything which twelve of his countrymen think not blamable.”

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Cuthell's Case (1799), 27 How. St. Tr. 675.

“All laws stand on the best and broadest basis which go to enforce moral and social duties.”

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Pasley v. Freeman (1789), 3 T. R. 51.

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

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Clayton v. Adams (1796), 6 T. R. 605.

“If I were master of eloquence I would not make the decision of this cause a stage upon which I would display that eloquence. Those things which are very proper for advocates to do, become very improper for the Judge, who has nothing to do, but to state to the jury the short grounds upon which the cause ought to proceed.”

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Eaton's Case (1793)

“It cannot but occur to every person's observation, that as long as parties exist in the country (and perhaps it is for the good of the country that parties should exist to a certain degree, because they keep ministers on their guard in their conduct), they will have their friends and adherents. A great political character, who held a high situation in this country some years ago, but who is now dead, used to say that ministers were the better for being now and then a little peppered and salted. And while these parties exist, they will have their friendships and attainments, which will sometimes dispose them to wander from argument to declamation.”

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Holt's Case (1793), 22 How. St. Tr. 1234.

“We are all desirous to sit as long as we can, but necessity justifies that which it compels; the strength of man is not adequate to this. Lord Mansfield, as little inclined to give way as any man, did give way at a certain hour in the case of Lord Pomfret.”

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Stone's Case (1796), 25 How. St. Tr. 1290.

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

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King v. Harris (1797), 7 T. R. 238.

“The natural leaning of our minds is in favour of prisoners; and in the mild manner in which the laws of this country are executed, it has rather been a subject of complaint by some that the Judges have given way too easily to mere formal objections on behalf of prisoners, and have been too ready on slight grounds to make favourable representations of their cases. Lord Hale himself, one of the greatest and best men who ever sat in judgment, considered this extreme facility as a great blemish, owing to which more offenders escaped than by the manifestation of their innocence." We must, however, take care not to carry this disposition too far, lest we loosen the bands of society, which is kept together by the hope of reward, and the fear of punishment. It has been always considered, that the Judges in our foreign possessions abroad were not bound by the rules of proceeding in our Courts here. Their laws are often altogether distinct from our own. Such is the case in India and other places. On appeals to the Privy Council from our colonies, no formal objections are attended to, if the substance of the matter or the corpus delicti sufficiently appear to enable them to get at the truth and justice of the case.”

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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.

“He had no right to take the law into his own hands.”

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Tarleton v. McGawley (1795), 2 Peake, N. P. Ca. 208

“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.”

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Booth v. Hodgson (1795), 6 T. R. 409.

“The practice of the Court forms the law of the Court.”

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Wilson v. Rastall (1792), 4 T. R. 757.

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

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Morton v. Lamb (1797), 7 T. R. 129.

“The use of cases is to establish principles; if the cases decide different from the principles, I must follow the principles, not the decisions.”

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Duke of Leeds v. New Radnor (1788), 2 Brown's Rep. (by Belt), 339.

“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.”

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King v. Stone (1800), 1 East, 650.

“We must judge of a man's motives from his overt acts.”

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King v. Waddington (1800), 1 East, 158.

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

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Jennings v. Rundall (1799), 8 T.R. 337.

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

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King v. Harris (1797), 7 T. R. 239.

“Though in a state of society some must have greater luxuries and comforts than others, yet all should have the necessaries of life; and if the poor cannot exist, in vain may the rich look for happiness or prosperity. The legislature is never so well employed as when they look to the interests of those who are at a distance from them in the ranks of society. It is their duty to do so: religion calls for it; humanity calls for it; and if there are hearts who are not awake to either of those feelings, their own interests would dictate it.”

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Rex v. Rusby (1800), Peake's N. P. Cases 192.

“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.”

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Booth v. Hodgson (1795), 6 T. R. 408.

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

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King v. The College of Physicians (1797), 7 T. R. 288.

“The wishes of every human man are, that guilt may not be fixed upon any man; but I confess I am one of those who have not the weakness—which weakness, a Judge at least, and a jury, must get rid of, before they fit themselves to fill the respective stations which they are to fill in the administration of the justice of the country— I say, therefore, I am not one of those who wish under false compassion, inconsistent with the administration of criminal justice, that a person on whom guilt is fairly fixed, should escape the punishment which the law annexes to his guilt.”

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Stone's Case (1796), 25 How. St. Tr. 1423.

“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.”

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Goodright v. Rich (1797), 7 T. R. 334.

“Justice requires that a party should be duly summoned and fully heard before he is condemned.”

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King v. Stone (1800), 1 East, 649.

“There is no magic in words.”

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King v. Inhabitants of North Nibley (1792), 5 T. R. 24; Lord Romilly, Lord v. Jeffkins (1865), 35 Beav. 16.

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

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Cross v. Glode (1797), 2 Esp. 575.

“I have often thought since that there is sound sense in what was once said by the late Lord C. J. Eyre, that the sooner a bad precedent was gotten rid of, the better.”

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King v. Stone (1800), 1 East, 648 n. (a).

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