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The gladsome light of jurisprudence.
Edward Coke
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You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.
Edward Coke
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One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
Edward Coke
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The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.
Edward Coke
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Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
Edward Coke
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Reason is the life of the law.
Edward Coke
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Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.
Edward Coke
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The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.
Edward Coke
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He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated.
Edward Coke
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The law of the realm cannot be changed but by Parliament.
Edward Coke
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The Common lawes of the Realme should by no means be delayed for the law is the surest sanctuary, that a man should take, and the strongest fortresse to protect the weakest of all, lex et tutissima cassis.
Edward Coke
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No man can be a compleat Lawyer by universalitie of knowledge without experience in particular cases, nor by bare experience without universalitie of knowledge; he must be both speculative & active, for the science of the laws, I assure you, must joyne hands with experience.
Edward Coke
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There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent both for Prince and subject, as knowledge of laws; and no knowledge of any laws so necessary for all estates and for all causes, concerning goods, lands or life, as the common laws of England.
Edward Coke
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Let us now peruse our ancient authors, for out of the old fields must come the new corn.
Edward Coke
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A word must become a friend or you will not understand it. Perhaps you do well to be cool and detached when you are seeking information, but I remind you of the wife who complained, 'When I ask John if he loves me, he thinks I am asking for information'.
Edward Coke
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For a man's house is his castle.
Edward Coke
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Precaution is better than a cure.
Edward Coke
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Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.
Edward Coke
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Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason.
Edward Coke
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The house of every one is to him as his castle.
Edward Coke
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The Law ... is perfection of reason.
Edward Coke
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Law is the safest helmet.
Edward Coke
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We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.
Edward Coke
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Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions
Edward Coke
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Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment.
Edward Coke
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Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale
Edward Coke
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Success in crime always invites to worse deeds
Edward Coke
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Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.
Edward Coke
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It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many.
Edward Coke
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For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone].
Edward Coke
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Trial by jury is a wise distribution of power which exceeds all other modes of trial.
Edward Coke
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And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient.
Edward Coke
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Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.
Edward Coke
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So as grave and learned men may doubt, without any imputation to them; for the most learned doubteth most, and the more ignorant for the most part are the more bold and peremptory.
Edward Coke
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So use your own property as not to injure that of another
Edward Coke
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There must have been good grounds for belief in witchcraft; otherwise Parliament would not have legislated against it.
Edward Coke
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Force ought to follow justice and not to precede.
Edward Coke
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A witch is a person who hath conference with the Devil to consult with him or to do some act.
Edward Coke
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There be three kinds of unhappie men. 1. Qui scit & non docet, Hee that hath knowledge and teacheth not. 2. Qui docet & non vivit, He that teacheth, and liveth not thereafter. 3. Qui nescit, & non interrogat, He that knoweth not, and doth not enquire to understand.
Edward Coke
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The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also
Edward Coke
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Everyone thirsteth after gaine.
Edward Coke
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Where there are many counsellors there is safety.
Edward Coke
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We have a saying in the House of Commons; that old ways are the safest and surest ways.
Edward Coke
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A thing which is not in esse but in apparent expectancy is regarded in law.
Edward Coke
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Don't quote the distinction, for the honour of my lord Coke.
Edward Coke
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Common law is common right.
Edward Coke
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That Francis Bacon retains his reputation gained, is not strange to any that knows him. The unusual words wherewith he had spangled his speech, were rather gracious for their propriety than strange for their novelty, and like to serve both for occasions to report and means to remember his argument. Certain sentences of his , somewhat obscure, and as it were presuming upon their capacities will, I fear, make some of them rather admire than commend him. In sum, all is as well as words can make it, and if it please Her Majesty to add deeds, the Bacon may be too hard for the Cook.
Edward Coke
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None shall take advantage of his own wrong.
Edward Coke
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The law compells no man to impossible things. The argument ab impossibili is forcible in law.
Edward Coke
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The agreement of the parties cannot make that good which the law maketh void.
Edward Coke
