Top 46 Edward Coke Quotes
#1. Don't quote the distinction, for the honour of my lord Coke.
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#2. Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.
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#3. 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.
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#4. Where there are many counsellors there is safety.
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#5. So use your own property as not to injure that of another.
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#6. He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated.
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#7. There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent as knowledge of laws.
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#8. The agreement of the parties cannot make that good which the law maketh void.
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#9. The house of every one is to him as his castle.
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#10. I think the Duke of Buckingham is the cause of all our miseries, and till the King be informed thereof, we shall never go out with honor, or sit with honor here. That man is the grievance of grievances. Let us set down the causes of all our disasters and they will all reflect upon him.
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#12. It is the worst oppression, that is done by colour of justice
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#14. Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
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#15. One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
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#16. We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.
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#17. 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.
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#18. How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
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#20. A witch is a person who hath conference with the Devil to consult with him or to do some act.
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#21. The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.
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#22. Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.
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#23. The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.
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#24. Trial by jury is a wise distribution of power which exceeds all other modes of trial.
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#25. Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.
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#26. The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.
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#27. Force ought to follow justice and not to precede.
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#29. Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
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#30. Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
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#31. You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.
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#32. For when the law doth give any thing to one, it giveth impliedly whatsoever is necessary for the taking and enjoying of the same.
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#34. Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign.
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#38. Let us now peruse our ancient authors, for out of the old fields must come the new corn.
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#39. Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.
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#40. None shall take advantage of his own wrong.
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#41. The law of the realm cannot be changed but by Parliament.
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#42. 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.
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#43. It is a fiction, a shade, a nonentity, but a reality for legal purposes. A corporation aggregate is only in abstracto-it is invisible, immortal, and rests only in intendment and consideration of the law.
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#44. Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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#45. For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone].
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#46. 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'.
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