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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

  Men, Law, Doubt

  Sir Edward Coke, Sir Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Sir Matthew Hale (1832). “The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Or, a Commentary Upon Littleton : Not the Name of the Author Only, But of the Law Itself ... : Haec Ego Grandaevus Posui Tibi, Candide Lector”, p.632

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• Reason is the life of the law.

  Edward Coke

  Law, Coke, Reason

  The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England bk. 2, ch. 6 (1628)

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• For a man's house is his castle.

  Edward Coke

  Home, Men, House

  The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England ch. 73 (1644)

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• The Law ... is perfection of reason.

  Edward Coke

  Law, Perfection, Reason

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• Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.

  Edward Coke

  Soul, Corporations, Coke

  Case of Sutton's Hospital (1658)

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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

  Home, Men, House

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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

  Mean, Deeds, May

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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

  Prayer, Sleep, Law

  Translation of a quotation taken by Coke from Justinian 'The Pandects' (or 'Digest') bk. 2, ch. 4 'De in Jus Vocando'.

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• Common law is common right.

  Edward Coke

  Law, Common, Common Law

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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

  Thinking, Wife, Asking

  Case of Swans, 7 Rep. 15, 17, 1592.

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• Precaution is better than a cure.

  Edward Coke

  Cures, Precaution

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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

  Law, Suffering, Prejudice

  Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave (1832). “The ... Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England; Or, a Commentary Upon Littleton: Not the Name of the Author Only, But of the Law Itself : Including Also the Notes of Lord Chief Justice Hale and Lord Chancellor Nottingham, and an Analysis of Littleton, Written by an Unknown Hand in 1658 - 9”, p.524

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• None shall take advantage of his own wrong.

  Edward Coke

  Advantage

  Sir Edward Coke (1777). “The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Knt. [1572-1617]: In English, in Thirteen Parts Complete; with References to All the Ancient and Modern Books of the Law”

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• The law compells no man to impossible things. The argument ab impossibili is forcible in law.

  Edward Coke

  Men, Impossible Things, Law

  Sir Edward Coke, Sir Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Sir Matthew Hale (1823). “The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Or, A Commentary Upon Littleton. Not the Name of the Author Only, But of the Law Itself ... Hæc Ego Grandævus Posui Tibi, Candide Lector”, p.129

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• Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.

  Edward Coke

  Deceit, These Days, Fraud

  Sir Edward Coke (1777). “The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Knt. [1572-1617]: In English, in Thirteen Parts Complete; with References to All the Ancient and Modern Books of the Law”

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• Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale

  Edward Coke

  Fetch

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• The law doth never enforce a man to doe a vaine thing.

  Edward Coke

  Men, Law, Doe

  Sir Edward Coke, Sir Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Sir Matthew Hale (1809). “The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary Upon Littleton: Not the Name of the Author Only, But of the Law Itself”, p.104

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• 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.

  Edward Coke

  Reality, Law, Corporations

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• And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient.

  Edward Coke

  Law, Perfection, Suffering

  Sir Edward Coke, Sir Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Sir Matthew Hale (1809). “The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary Upon Littleton: Not the Name of the Author Only, But of the Law Itself”, p.138

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• In the meane time know this, that the learning of warranties is one of the most curious and cunning learnings of the law, and of great use and consequence.

  Edward Coke

  Law, Use, Curious

  Sir Edward Coke, Sir Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Sir Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham (Earl of) (1853). “The first part of the Institutes of the laws of England: or, A commentary upon Littleton. Not the name of the author only, but of the law itself ...”

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• For when the law doth give any thing to one, it giveth impliedly whatsoever is necessary for the taking and enjoying of the same.

  Edward Coke

  Law, Giving, Enjoy

  Sir Edward Coke, Sir Thomas Littleton, Sir Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Earl of Nottingham (1817). “The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary Upon Littleton: Not the Name of the Author Only, But of the Law Itself”

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• There must have been good grounds for belief in witchcraft; otherwise Parliament would not have legislated against it.

  Edward Coke

  Belief, Parliament, Witchcraft

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• Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions

  Edward Coke

  Mother, Causes, 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

  Devil, Witch, Conferences

  "The Witch-Cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology". Book by Margaret Alice Murray, 2007.

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• We have a saying in the House of Commons; that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

  Edward Coke

  House, Way, House Of Commons

  1628 Speech, London, 8 May.

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