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Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions
Edward Coke
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Edward Coke
Died: 1633
Died: September 3
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Trial by jury is a wise distribution of power which exceeds all other modes of trial.
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Where there are many counsellors there is safety.
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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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We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.
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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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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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