Edward Coke Quotes
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The gladsome light of jurisprudence (Edward Coke Quotes)
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions (Edward Coke Quotes)
It is therefore necessary that memorable things should be committed to writing, and not wholly betaken i. E., committed to slippery memory which seldom yields a certain reckoning (Edward Coke Quotes)
The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose (Edward Coke Quotes)
Only this incident inseparable every custom must have, viz., that it be consonant to reason; for how long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law (Edward Coke Quotes)
The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose (Edward Coke Quotes)
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason... The law, which is perfection of reason (Edward Coke Quotes)
How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law (Edward Coke Quotes)
In the meane time know this, that the learning of warranties is one of the most curious and cunning learnings of the law, and of great use and consequence (Edward Coke Quotes)
So as grave and learned men may doubt, without any imputation to them; for the most learned doubteth most, and the more ignorant for the most part are the more bold and peremptory (Edward Coke Quotes)
It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many (Edward Coke Quotes)
The law compells no man to impossible things. The argument ab impossibili is forcible in law (Edward Coke Quotes)
For when the law doth give any thing to one, it giveth impliedly whatsoever is necessary for the taking and enjoying of the same (Edward Coke Quotes)
Let us now peruse our ancient authors, for out of the old fields must come the new corn (Edward Coke Quotes)
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