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The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.

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
Law
Men
King
Kings

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And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient.
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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.
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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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You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.
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We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.
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Trial by jury is a wise distribution of power which exceeds all other modes of trial.
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Let us now peruse our ancient authors, for out of the old fields must come the new corn.
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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.
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