Frases de Edward Coke

Edward Coke[1]​ fue un jurisconsulto inglés, sucesivamente abogado de la Corona , procurador general y presidente del Court of Common Pleas, primer juez del Tribunal Supremo . Intervino en cuestiones de gran importancia durante los reinados de Isabel I de Inglaterra y Jacobo I de Inglaterra; al tiempo que se convirtió en uno de los más influyentes miembros del Parlamento inglés, caracterizado por su independencia, lo que le granjeó la animadversión de Jacobo I y su favorito George Villiers de Buckingham. Fue depuesto de todas sus dignidades y murió alejado del poder. Su principal adversario fue Francis Bacon. También fue uno de los juristas que más influyó en el desarrollo de la constitución inglesa.

Se ocupó del proceso del conde de Essex Walter Raleigh, el de los implicados en la Conspiración de la pólvora y el del primer conde de Somerset Robert Carr .

Escribió Institutes of the Lawes of England , una obra clásica frecuentemente reeditada. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. febrero 1552 – 3. septiembre 1634
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Edward Coke: Frases en inglés

“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.”

Institutes of the Laws of England, Second Part, vol. 1 (1642), Notes to Ch. XXIX of the Charter [Magna Carta], paragraph 1391 http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php&title=912&search=%22tutissima%22&chapter=61105&layout=html#a_1375898
Institutes of the Laws of England

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

Translation of lines quoted by Coke. Compare: "Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven; Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven" - Sir William Jones.

“Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason… The law, which is perfection of reason.”

The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, or, A Commentary on Littleton (London, 1628, ed. F. Hargrave and C. Butler, 19th ed., London, 1832), Third Institute. Compare: "Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason", Sir John Powell, Coggs vs. Bernard, 2 Ld. Raym. Rep. p. 911.
Institutes of the Laws of England

“The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.”

Prohibitions del Roy, 12 Co. Rep. 63, quoting Henry de Bracton's treatise on the laws and customs of England. http://www.uniset.ca/other/cs4/77ER1342.html
Institutes of the Laws of England

“He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated.”

The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, or, A Commentary on Littleton, (London, 1628, ed. F. Hargrave and C. Butler, 19th ed., London, 1832), First Institute.
Institutes of the Laws of England

“Only this incident inseparable every custom must have, viz., that it be consonant to reason; for how long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.”

The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, or, A Commentary on Littleton, part 62a (London, 1628, ed. F. Hargrave and C. Butler, 19th ed., London, 1832).
Institutes of the Laws of England

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

Reported in Margaret Alice Murray, The Witch-Cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology (2007) p. 18.
Attributed

“They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed nor excommunicate, for they have no souls.”

Case of Sutton's Hospital, 10 Rep. 32.; 77 Eng Rep 960, 973 (K.B. 1612).

“Thought the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.”

Institutes of the Laws of England, vol. 3.
Institutes of the Laws of England

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

Speech https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/coke-selected-writings-of-sir-edward-coke-vol-iii#lf0462-03_head_079 to the committee of the House of Commons (20 May 1628)

“Law is the safest helmet.”

Inscription in rings given by Coke to several of his friends on June 20, 1606, in anticipation of his judicial investiture; reported in Humphry William Woolrych, The Life of the Right Honourable Sir Edward Coke (1826) p. 75. Derived from a latin maxim, Lex est tutissima cassis; sub clypeo legis nemo decipitur: Law is the safest helmet; under the shield of the law no one is deceived.

“That great lawyer was much heated in the controversy between the Courts at Westminster and the Ecclesiastical Courts. In every part of his conduct his passions influenced his judgment. Vir acer et vehemens.”

His law was continually warped by the different situations in which he found himself.
Heath, J., Jefferson v. Bishop of Durham (1797), 2 Bos. & Pull. 131.
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“The gladsome light of jurisprudence.”

The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, or, A Commentary on Littleton, (London, 1628, ed. F. Hargrave and C. Butler, 19th ed., London, 1832), First Institute.
Institutes of the Laws of England