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Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634)

British jurist and politician

Reason is the life of the law, nay the common law is nothing else but reason.

SIR EDWARD COKE, Institutes: Commentary upon Littleton

The Law ... is perfection of reason.

SIR EDWARD COKE, Institutes: Commentary upon Littleton

A man's house is his castle.

SIR EDWARD COKE, Institutes: Commentary upon Littleton

They [corporations] cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicate, for they have no souls.

EDWARD COKE, "The Case of Sutton's Hospital," The Reports of Sir Edward Coke


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