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You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.

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Edward Coke
Died: 1633
Died: September 3
Barrister
Judge
Lord Chief Justice Of England And Wales
Politician
Mileham
Norfolk
Sir Edward Coke
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Trust
Art
Men
Skilled

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Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale
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A thing which is not in esse but in apparent expectancy is regarded in law.
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The law compells no man to impossible things. The argument ab impossibili is forcible in law.
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The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also
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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.
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He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated.
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We have a saying in the House of Commons that old ways are the safest and surest ways.
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There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning no learning so excellent as knowledge of laws.
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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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There must have been good grounds for belief in witchcraft otherwise Parliament would not have legislated against it.
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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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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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