Quotes by Edward Coke

Edward Coke

A corporation has no soul.

Corporations

Soul

A thing which is not in esse but in apparent expectancy is regarded in law.

Expectancy

Law

Property

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

Conferences

Devil

Witch

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’.

Asking

Thinking

Wife

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

Law

Perfection

Suffering

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

Causes

Coke

Mother

Common law is common right.

Common

Common Law

Law

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

Coke

Corporations

Soul

Don’t quote the distinction, for the honour of my lord Coke.

Coke

Distinction

Lord

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.

Libel

Made

Men

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Agreement

Art

Asking

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Bribe

Bribery

Castles

Causes

Cease

Changed

Cheated

Coke

Common

Common Law

Conferences

Consent

Corn

Corporations

Crime

Cures

Curious

Deceit

Deeds

Devil

Distinction

Distribution Of Power

Doe

Done

Doubt

Effects

Enjoy

Expectancy

Faults

Fellows

Fetch

Fields

Force

Fraud

Giving

Guilty

Hands

Helmet

Home

House

House Of Commons

Impossible Things

Innocence

Jewels

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Quotes by Edward Coke

Edward Coke

A corporation has no soul.

A thing which is not in esse but in apparent expectancy is regarded in law.

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

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’.

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

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

Common law is common right.

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

Don’t quote the distinction, for the honour of my lord Coke.

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.

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