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Famous Edward Coke Quotes
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 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
Source: The selected writings and speeches of Sir Edward Coke
“The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.”
Source: The selected writings and speeches of Sir Edward Coke
“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
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 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 ... : Haec Ego Grandaevus Posui Tibi, Candide Lector
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 selected writings and speeches of Sir Edward Coke