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
So use your own property as not to injure that of another
Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.
Success in crime always invites to worse deeds
For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone].
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.
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason.
The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also
And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient.
It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many.
There must have been good grounds for belief in witchcraft; otherwise Parliament would not have legislated against it.
The Law ... is perfection of reason.
None shall take advantage of his own wrong.
A thing which is not in esse but in apparent expectancy is regarded in law.