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Source: The selected writings and speeches of Sir Edward Coke
“Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.”
“A witch is a person who hath conference with the Devil to consult with him or to do some act.”
“Don't quote the distinction, for the honour of my lord Coke.”
“None shall take advantage of his own wrong.”
Source: The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Knt. [1572-1617]: In English, in Thirteen Parts Complete; with References to All the Ancient and Modern Books of the Law
“A thing which is not in esse but in apparent expectancy is regarded in law.”
Source: The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Kt ... The Second Edition Carefully Compared with the French ... With a Table to the Whole
“We have a saying in the House of Commons; that old ways are the safest and surest ways.”
“Let us now peruse our ancient authors, for out of the old fields must come the new corn.”
“Trial by jury is a wise distribution of power which exceeds all other modes of trial.”
Source: The selected writings and speeches of Sir Edward Coke
“Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.”
“You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.”
“The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.”
Source: The selected writings and speeches of Sir Edward Coke
“Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign”
“Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions”
“It is the worst oppression, that is done by colour of justice”
Source: The Second Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England Containing the Exposition of Many Ancient and Other Statutes
“The agreement of the parties cannot make that good which the law maketh void.”
Source: A Systematic Arrangement of Lord Coke's First Institute of the Laws of England: On the Plan of Sir Matthew Hale's Analysis; with the Annotations of Mr. Hargrave, Lord Chief Justice Hale, and Lord Chancellor Nottingham; and a New Series of Notes and References to the Present Time: Including Tables of Parallel Reference, Analytical Tables of Contents, and a Copious Digested Index ..
Source: The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary Upon Littleton: Not the Name of the Author Only, But of the Law Itself
“The law doth never enforce a man to doe a vaine thing.”
Source: The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary Upon Littleton: Not the Name of the Author Only, But of the Law Itself
“The law compells no man to impossible things. The argument ab impossibili is forcible in law.”
Source: The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Or, A Commentary Upon Littleton. Not the Name of the Author Only, But of the Law Itself ... Hæc Ego Grandævus Posui Tibi, Candide Lector
“And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient.”
Source: The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary Upon Littleton: Not the Name of the Author Only, But of the Law Itself
Source: The ... Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England; Or, a Commentary Upon Littleton: Not the Name of the Author Only, But of the Law Itself : Including Also the Notes of Lord Chief Justice Hale and Lord Chancellor Nottingham, and an Analysis of Littleton, Written by an Unknown Hand in 1658 - 9