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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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Edward Coke
Died: 1633
Died: September 3
Barrister
Judge
Lord Chief Justice Of England And Wales
Politician
Mileham
Norfolk
Sir Edward Coke
Life
Perfection
Law
Common
Else
Reason
Nothing

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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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Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions
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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.
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Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.
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And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient.
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Precaution is better than a cure.
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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.
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