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"The gladsome light of jurisprudence."
Sir Edward Coke / First Institute.
First Institute.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. . . . The law, which is perfection of reason."
Sir Edward Coke / First Institute.
First Institute.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium."
Sir Edward Coke / Third Institute. Page 162.
Third Institute. Page 162.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"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."
Sir Edward Coke / Semayne's Case, 5 Rep. 91.
Semayne's Case, 5 Rep. 91.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed nor excommunicate, for they have no souls."
Sir Edward Coke / Case of Sutton's Hospital, 10 Rep. 32.
Case of Sutton's Hospital, 10 Rep. 32.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign."
Sir Edward Coke / Debate in the Commons, May 17, 1628.
Debate in the Commons, May 17, 1628.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain