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Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon (5 October 1732 – 4 April 1802) was a British politician and barrister, who served as Attorney General, Master of the Rolls and Lord Chief Justice of the United Kingdom.

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“There is no magic in words.”
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“I can't look to contingencies.”
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“Every irregularity is not erroneous.”
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“Precedent goes in support of justice.”
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“Equity will go no further than the law.”
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“A Court of equity knows its own province.”
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“Proceedings at law are sufficiently expensive.”
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“Some modern cases have in my opinion gone too far.”
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“He had no right to take the law into his own hands.”
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“What is clear to one man may be doubtful to another.”
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“The practice of the Court forms the law of the Court.”
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“We must judge of a man's motives from his overt acts.”
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“Modus in rebus—there must be an end of things.”
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“It is sometimes difficult to get rid of first impressions.”
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“The popish religion is now unknown to the law of this country.”
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“In the hurry of business, the most able Judges are liable to err.”
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“We ought not to decide hastily against the words of an Act of Parliament.”
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“Those regulations that are adapted to the common race of men are the best.”
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“A man may publish anything which twelve of his countrymen think not blamable.”
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“What a man does in his closet ought not to affect the rights of third persons.”
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“That corporations are the creatures of the Crown must be universally admitted.”
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“To enter into the hearts of men belongs to him who can explore the human heart.”
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“All laws stand on the best and broadest basis which go to enforce moral and social duties.”
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“Justice requires that a party should be duly summoned and fully heard before he is condemned.”
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“Sitting in a Court of law, I can receive no evidence but what comes under the sanction of an oath.”
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“I must treat with reverence everything which Lord Kenyon has said: but not everything which text writers have represented him to have said, which he did not say.”
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“My Lord... it would be well if you would stick to your good law and leave off your bad Latin.”
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About Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon (5 October 1732 – 4 April 1802) was a British politician and barrister, who served as Attorney General, Master of the Rolls and Lord Chief Justice of the United Kingdom.