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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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Edward Coke
Died: 1633
Died: September 3
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Lord Chief Justice Of England And Wales
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Mileham
Norfolk
Sir Edward Coke
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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.
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One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
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The law of the realm cannot be changed but by Parliament.
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He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated.
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We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.
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Precaution is better than a cure.
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Trial by jury is a wise distribution of power which exceeds all other modes of trial.
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And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient.
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A corporation has no soul.
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So use your own property as not to injure that of another
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You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.
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Where there are many counsellors there is safety.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.
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Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.
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The law compells no man to impossible things. The argument ab impossibili is forcible in law.
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A thing which is not in esse but in apparent expectancy is regarded in law.
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The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.
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