Edward Coke Quotes

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• For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone].
• For a man's house is his castle.
• You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.
• The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also
• Success in crime always invites to worse deeds
• So use your own property as not to injure that of another
• Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign
• Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions
• Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale
• That Francis Bacon retains his reputation gained, is not strange to any that knows him. The unusual words wherewith he had spangled his speech, were…
• Precaution is better than a cure.
• Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason.
• The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.
• One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
• No man can be a compleat Lawyer by universalitie of knowledge without experience in particular cases, nor by bare experience without universalitie of knowledge; he…
• Where there are many counsellors there is safety.
• The house of every one is to him as his castle.
• It is the worst oppression, that is done by colour of justice
• The agreement of the parties cannot make that good which the law maketh void.
• For when the law doth give any thing to one, it giveth impliedly whatsoever is necessary for the taking and enjoying of the same.

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