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Edward Coke (1552 – 1634)


Early English colonial entrepreneur and jurist whose writings on the English common law were definitive legal texts for some 300 years.
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Edward Coke
Don't quote the distinction, for the honour of my lord Coke.
Coke quotes
Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.
Coke
Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,
Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.




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