So as grave and learned men may doubt, without any imputation to them; for the most learned doubteth most, and the more… — Edward Coke Doubt Copy Share Image
Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign — Edward Coke Sovereign Copy Share Image
It is a fiction, a shade, a nonentity, but a reality for legal purposes. A corporation aggregate is only in abstractoit is… — Edward Coke Consideration Copy Share Image
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of… — Edward Coke Common Copy Share Image
And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient. — Edward Coke Inconvenient Copy Share Image
No man can be a compleat Lawyer by universalitie of knowledge without experience in particular cases, nor by bare experience without universalitie… — Edward Coke Active Copy Share Image
Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix. — Edward Coke Education Copy Share Image
We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the… — Edward Coke Commons Copy Share Image
There must have been good grounds for belief in witchcraft; otherwise Parliament would not have legislated against it. — Edward Coke Belief Copy Share Image
A witch is a person who hath conference with the Devil to consult with him or to do some act. — Edward Coke Conferences Copy Share Image
Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times. — Edward Coke Deceit Copy Share Image
There be three kinds of unhappie men. 1. Qui scit & non docet, Hee that hath knowledge and teacheth not. 2. Qui… — Edward Coke Kind Copy Share Image
You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it. — Edward Coke Art Copy Share Image
Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished. — Edward Coke Consent Copy Share Image
For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone]. — Edward Coke Castles Copy Share Image
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions — Edward Coke Certainty Copy Share Image
In the meane time know this, that the learning of warranties is one of the most curious and cunning learnings of the… — Edward Coke Consequence Copy Share Image
There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent as knowledge of laws. — Edward Coke Education Copy Share Image
