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We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.
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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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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A thing which is not in esse but in apparent expectancy is regarded in law.
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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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The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also
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You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.
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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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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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The law of the realm cannot be changed but by Parliament.
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