...and there was a sort of truth in Coke's dithyrambic praise of it, then but recently published, that 'reason is the life of the law — nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason;' but it was the truth of prophecy, and not the truth of fact. The law also was then...

...And Lord Coke repeatedly declared that the law " is the perfection of reason." " Reason," said he, " is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason." 2 In the onward march of civilization and in the advancement of science in general,...

...investigation, to guide and control the more diversified and disjointed appearances." Lord Coke says, "Reason is the life of the law, nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason ; which is to be understood of an artificiall perfection of reason, gotten by long...

...for the remark that which is reason is law.'' It is the very phrase that Coke used when he said : " Reason is the life of the law, nay the common law itself is nothing clse hut reason; which is to be understood of an artificall perfection of reason, gotten by long study,...

...Wampn?e. that which is reason is law.'' It is the very phrase that Coke used when he said : " Season is the life of the law, nay the common law itself is nothing else but reason; which is to be understood of an artificall perfection of reason, gotten by long study,...

...as much contradiction in the laws as there is in the schools; nor yet, as Sir Edward Coke makes it, an "artificial perfection of reason, gotten by long study, observation, and experience," as his was. For it is possible long study may increase and confirm erroneous sentences, and where men...

...Law, Salvs populi supremo, lex est, is as true to-day as at any time in the past. Coke tells us that "Reason is the Life of the Law, nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason." and Burke is authority for the saying, "Law is benificence acting by rule. ' ' The...

...is law that is not reason." If my memory serves me, it was Lord Coke who said something like this : "Reason is the life of the law ; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. * * Law is the perfection of reason. * * How long so ever it hath continued, if it...

...Kiivilnn. SIR EDWARD COKE. 1549-1634. The gladsome light of jurisprudence. F{rst Jnstitut9i Eeason is the life of the law ; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. . . . The law, which is perfection of reason.1 Ibid_ For a man's house is his castle,...

...what is it that scientific teaching of law in universities puts in jeopardy? "Reason", says Lord Coke, "is the life of the law; nay the common law itself is nothing else but reason." In the university this reason becomes a living reason, in touch with and stimulated...