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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  

✵ 5. Ottobre 1732 – 4. Aprile 1802
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“A Court of equity knows its own province.”

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Mayor, &c. of Southampton v. Graves (1800), 8 T. R. 592.

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

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The King v. Inhabitants of St. Paul's, Bedford (1797), 6 T. R. 454.

“Concessions made for the purpose of settling the business for which the action is brought, cannot be given in evidence; but facts admitted I have always received.”

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Turner v. Railton (1796), 2 Esp. 475.

“The learned counsel has very properly avoided all political discussions unconnected with the subject, and I shall follow his example. Courts of justice have nothing to do with them.”

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Trial of John Vint and others (1799), 27 How. St. Tr. 640.

“What a man does in his closet ought not to affect the rights of third persons.”

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Outram v. Morewood (1793), 5 T. R. 123.

“The character of the Judges is public property, and if they have done anything amiss, they ought to be censured. But if not, their characters ought to be respected; otherwise the most mischievous consequences will arise to the public.”

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

“We must not, by any whimsical conceits supposed to be adapted to the altering fashions of the times, overturn the established law of the land: it descended to us as a sacred charge, and it is our duty to preserve it.”

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

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

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Wright v. Barnard (1797), 2 Esp. 701.

“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.”

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

“With regard to the construction of statutes according to the intention of the legislature, we must remember that there is an essential difference between the expounding of modern and ancient Acts of Parliament. In early times the legislature used (and I believe it was a wise course to take) to pass laws in general and in few terms; they were left to the Courts of law to be construed so as to reach all the cases within the mischief to be remedied. But in modern times great care has been taken to mention the particular cases in the contemplation of the legislature, and therefore the Courts are not permitted to take the same liberty in construing them as they did in expounding the ancient statutes.”

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Bradley and another v. Clark (1793), 5 T. R. 201.

“Some modern cases have in my opinion gone too far.”

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Walford v. Duchess de Pienne (1797), 2 Esp. 555.

“It is not for human judgment to dive into the heart of man, to know whether his intentions are good or evil.”

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Case of John Lambert and others (1793), 22 How. St. Tr. 1018.

“The discussion which was made by Luther, Melancthon, and the other persons who preceded the Reformation, opened the eyes or the public; and they got rid of the delusions which had been spread by the Pope of Rome, and emancipated mankind from the spiritual tyranny they were under, and brought about the establishment of that religion which we now enjoy in this country.”

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Reeves' Case (1796), 26 How. St. Tr. 591.

“It is of infinite importance to the public that the acts of magistrates should not only be substantially good, but also that they should be decorous.”

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The King v. Sainsbury (1791), 4 T. R. 456.

“The family consists of those who live under the same roof with the pater familias; those who form (if I may use the expression) his fire-side.”

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R. v. Inhabitants of Darlington (1792), 4 T. R. 800.

“There are many situations in life, and particularly in the commercial world, where a man cannot by any diligence inform himself of the degree of credit which ought to be given to the persons with whom he deals; in which cases he must apply to those whose sources of intelligence enable them to give that information. The law of prudence leads him to apply to them, and the law of morality ought to induce them to give the information required.”

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

“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.”

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Williams' Case (1797), 26 How. St. Tr. 709.

“The liberty of the press is dear to England; the licentiousness of the press is odious to England: the liberty of it can never be so well protected as by beating down the licentiousness.”

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Cuthell's Case (1799), 27 How. St. Tr. 674.

“The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country.”

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Turtle v. Hartwell (1795), 6 T. R. 429.

“That corporations are the creatures of the Crown must be universally admitted.”

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King v. Ginever (1796), 6 T. R. 735.

“Modus in rebus—there must be an end of things.”

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Proceedings against the Dean of St. Asaph (1783), 21 How. St. Tr. 875.

“What is clear to one man may be doubtful to another.”

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Godfrey v. Hudson (1788), 2 Esp. 500.

“I hope that there is no jealousy, or even ground of jealousy, on the part of the Americans, but that they know that when their rights come to be discussed here the greatest attention will be paid to their interests. They have long been acquainted with the habits of this country, and with the mode of administering justice here : until within these few years their causes used to come over here to be discussed, and I never heard that the decisions in our Courts ever awakened the least jealousy in the breasts of the inhabitants of that country.”

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Wilson v. Marryat (1798), 8 T. R. 44.

“It is necessary to the administration of justice that every person who is accused of a crime should have an opportunity of being heard in his defence against the charge of which he is accused.”

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The King v. Justices of Surrey (1794), 6 T. R. 78.

“In the hurry of business, the most able Judges are liable to err.”

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Cotton v. Thurland (1793), 5 T. R. 409.

“All Governments rest mainly on public opinion, and to that of his own subjects every wise Sovereign will look. The opinion of his subjects will force a Sovereign to do his duty, and by that opinion will he be exalted or depressed in the politics of the world.”

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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.”

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King v. Justices of Flintshire (1797), 7 T. R. 200.

“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.”

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Farmer v. Legg (1797), 7 T. R. 190.

“Counsel are frequently induced, and they are justified in taking the most favourable view of their clients' case; and it is not fair to pass over any piece of evidence they find difficult to deal with, provided they cite, fairly and correctly, those parts of the evidence they comment upon.”

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Trial of the Earl of Thanet, and others (1799), 27 How. St. Tr. 940.

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