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Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign.

Edward Coke

Will

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

How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.

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

So use your own property as not to injure that of another.

Edward Coke

Property

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.

Edward Coke

Will

Worth

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

Edward Coke

Act

Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.

Edward Coke

Fault

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.

Edward Coke

Cause

Effect

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

Edward Coke

Corporations

Treason

We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

Where there are many counsellors there is safety.

Edward Coke

Safety

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