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It is a fiction, a shade, a nonentity, but a reality for legal purposes. A corporation aggregate is only in abstractoit is invisible, immortal, and rests only in intendment and consideration of the law.
Edward Coke
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Edward Coke
Died: 1633
Died: September 3
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Lord Chief Justice Of England And Wales
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Mileham
Norfolk
Sir Edward Coke
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We have a saying in the House of Commons that old ways are the safest and surest ways.
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The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also
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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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He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated.
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Force ought to follow justice and not to precede.
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The law compells no man to impossible things. The argument ab impossibili is forcible in law.
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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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We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.
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Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.
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You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.
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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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Don't quote the distinction, for the honour of my lord Coke.
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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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Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale
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