Edward Coke famous quotes

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
-- Edward Coke

#Guilty #Innocent

The law of the realm cannot be changed but by Parliament.
-- Edward Coke

#Changed

Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.
-- Edward Coke

#Soul #Corporations #Treason

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions
-- Edward Coke

#Mother #Causes #Quiet

Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale
-- Edward Coke

#Fetch

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 rather gracious for their propriety than strange for their novelty, and like to serve both for occasions to report and means to remember his argument. Certain sentences of his , somewhat obscure, and as it were presuming upon their capacities will, I fear, make some of them rather admire than commend him. In sum, all is as well as words can make it, and if it please Her Majesty to add deeds, the Bacon may be too hard for the Cook.
-- Edward Coke

#Mean #Add #Deeds

Where there are many counsellors there is safety.
-- Edward Coke

#Safety #Workplace #Workplace Safety

The house of every one is to him as his castle.
-- Edward Coke

#House #Castles #Patriot

It is the worst oppression, that is done by colour of justice
-- Edward Coke

#Justice #Done #Oppression

The agreement of the parties cannot make that good which the law maketh void.
-- Edward Coke

#Party #Agreement #Law

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

#Law #Giving #Enjoy

Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign
-- Edward Coke

#Sovereign

So use your own property as not to injure that of another
-- Edward Coke

#Use #Property

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds
-- Edward Coke

#Deeds #Crime

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

#Home #Men #House

For a man's house is his castle.
-- Edward Coke

#Home #Men #House

You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.
-- Edward Coke

#Trust #Art #Men

Precaution is better than a cure.
-- Edward Coke

#Cures #Precaution

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason.
-- Edward Coke

#Law #Perfection #Common

The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.
-- Edward Coke

#Kings #Men #Law

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 must be both speculative & active, for the science of the laws, I assure you, must joyne hands with experience.
-- Edward Coke

#Men #Hands #Law

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

#Home #Castles #Violence

Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment.
-- Edward Coke

#Men #Made #Libel

Law is the safest helmet.
-- Edward Coke

#Law #Helmet

Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.
-- Edward Coke

#Prayer #Sleep #Law

The gladsome light of jurisprudence.
-- Edward Coke

#Light #Law #Jurisprudence

He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated.
-- Edward Coke

#Cheated

The Common lawes of the Realme should by no means be delayed for the law is the surest sanctuary, that a man should take, and the strongest fortresse to protect the weakest of all, lex et tutissima cassis.
-- Edward Coke

#Mean #Men #Law

A witch is a person who hath conference with the Devil to consult with him or to do some act.
-- Edward Coke

#Devil #Witch #Conferences

Don't quote the distinction, for the honour of my lord Coke.
-- Edward Coke

#Coke #Lord #Distinction

None shall take advantage of his own wrong.
-- Edward Coke

#Advantage

A word must become a friend or you will not understand it. Perhaps you do well to be cool and detached when you are seeking information, but I remind you of the wife who complained, 'When I ask John if he loves me, he thinks I am asking for information'.
-- Edward Coke

#Thinking #Wife #Asking

It is a fiction, a shade, a nonentity, but a reality for legal purposes. A corporation aggregate is only in abstracto—it is invisible, immortal, and rests only in intendment and consideration of the law.
-- Edward Coke

#Reality #Law #Purpose

Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
-- Edward Coke

#Faults #Bribe

Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.
-- Edward Coke

#Consent

The law doth never enforce a man to doe a vaine thing.
-- Edward Coke

#Men #Law #Doe

The law compells no man to impossible things. The argument ab impossibili is forcible in law.
-- Edward Coke

#Men #Law #Impossible

And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient.
-- Edward Coke

#Law #Perfection #Suffering

It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many.
-- Edward Coke

#Law #Suffering #May

There be three kinds of unhappie men. 1. Qui scit & non docet, Hee that hath knowledge and teacheth not. 2. Qui docet & non vivit, He that teacheth, and liveth not thereafter. 3. Qui nescit, & non interrogat, He that knoweth not, and doth not enquire to understand.
-- Edward Coke

#Men #Law #Three

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

#Men #Law #Doubt

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

#Law #Use #Curious

Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.
-- Edward Coke

#Deceit #These Days #Fraud

There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent both for Prince and subject, as knowledge of laws; and no knowledge of any laws so necessary for all estates and for all causes, concerning goods, lands or life, as the common laws of England.
-- Edward Coke

#Jewels #Law #Land

We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.
-- Edward Coke

#Thinking #Speak #Should

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also
-- Edward Coke

#Causes