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Edward Coke
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Edward Coke
Died: 1633
Died: September 3
Barrister
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Lord Chief Justice Of England And Wales
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Mileham
Norfolk
Sir Edward Coke
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Fetch
Sale
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You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.
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Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions
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In the meane time know this, that the learning of warranties is one of the most curious and cunning learnings of the law, and of great use and consequence.
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Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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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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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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So as grave and learned men may doubt, without any imputation to them for the most learned doubteth most, and the more ignorant for the most part are the more bold and peremptory.
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Success in crime always invites to worse deeds
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A corporation has no soul.
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Force ought to follow justice and not to precede.
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One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
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Everyone thirsteth after gaine.
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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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Don't quote the distinction, for the honour of my lord Coke.
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And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient.
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The law of the realm cannot be changed but by Parliament.
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Precaution is better than a cure.
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