It is a fiction, a shade, a nonentity, but a reality for legal purposes. A corporation aggregate is only in abstractoit is invisible, immortal, and rests only in intendment and consideration of the law. — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
The agreement of the parties cannot make that good which the law maketh void. — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many. — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
We have a saying in the House of Commons; that old ways are the safest and surest ways. — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
