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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.

— Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon King v. Stone (1800)

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

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

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