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
Don't quote the distinction, for the honour of my lord Coke.
Reason is the life of the law.
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions
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
Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.
One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.
How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
It is not easy to make a simile go on all-fours.
The gladsome light of jurisprudence.
We have a saying in the House of Commons; that old ways are the safest and surest ways.
Law is the safest helmet.