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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
Things
Fetch
Sale
Worth

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So use your own property as not to injure that of another
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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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One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
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The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.
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Trial by jury is a wise distribution of power which exceeds all other modes of trial.
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The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also
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A thing which is not in esse but in apparent expectancy is regarded in law.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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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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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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The law of the realm cannot be changed but by Parliament.
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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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Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.
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Success in crime always invites to worse deeds
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We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.
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He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated.
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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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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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