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A thing which is not in esse but in apparent expectancy is regarded in law.
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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One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
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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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Precaution is better than a cure.
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Success in crime always invites to worse deeds
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So use your own property as not to injure that of another
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The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.
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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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Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.
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And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient.
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Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale
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Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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Everyone thirsteth after gaine.
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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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