Edward Coke
Edward Coke
Sir Edward Coke SL PC, formerly /ˈkuːk/; 1 February 1552 – 3 September 1634) was an English barrister, judge and, later, opposition politician, who is considered to be the greatest jurist of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. Born into a middle-class family, Coke was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, before leaving to study at the Inner Temple, where he was called to the Bar on 20 April 1578. As a barrister he took part in several notable cases, including Slade's Case,...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth1 February 1552
The law compells no man to impossible things. The argument ab impossibili is forcible in law.
Everyone thirsteth after gaine.
A corporation has no soul.
Reason is the life of the law.
Trial by jury is a wise distribution of power which exceeds all other modes of trial.
It is the worst oppression, that is done by colour of justice
The agreement of the parties cannot make that good which the law maketh void.
That Francis Bacon retains his reputation gained, is not strange to any that knows him. The unusual words wherewith he had spangled his speech, were rather gracious for their propriety than strange for their novelty, and like to serve both for occasions to report and means to remember his argument. Certain sentences of his , somewhat obscure, and as it were presuming upon their capacities will, I fear, make some of them rather admire than commend him. In sum, all is as well as words can make it, and if it please Her Majesty to add deeds, the Bacon may be too hard for the Cook.
Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale
For when the law doth give any thing to one, it giveth impliedly whatsoever is necessary for the taking and enjoying of the same.
The law doth never enforce a man to doe a vaine thing.
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions
Precaution is better than a cure.
Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign