...much contradiction in the Lawes as there is in the Schooles; 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 encrease and confirm erroneous Sentences: and where...

...20.2 the perfection of human reason: In his First Institute (1628), Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634) wrote: "Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. . . . The law ... is perfection of reason." 48.38-39 vice admiral of the red: Until...

...to be lightly tampered with. In the immortal words of Lord Coke (himself, as it happens, a judge): "Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason . . . The law, which is perfection of reason." See Bartlett's Familiar Quotations,...

...should be immediately accessible to all. For this is not "everyman's natural reason." It is rather "an artificial perfection of reason, gotten by long study, observation, and experience," a quality proper to the law and to those who have immersed themselves in it. "If all the reason that...

...much contradiction in the laws, as there is in the Schools; nor yet, (as Sir Edward Coke makes it,) t is a declaration; and the fundamental law of nature being the preservation of mankin (as his was.) For it is possible long study may increase, and confirm erroneous sentences: and where...

...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...

...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...

...The First 1'art of the Institutes of the laws of F.naland ( 1 628) bk. i, ch. io, sect. So 7 Keason is the life of the law, nay the common law itself is nothing else but reason. The First l'an of the Institutes of the Urn's of Knaland (1628) bk. 2, ch. 6, sect,...

...questions to the editor of this department. They will meet with prompt Mary Belle King attention. Sherman. Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. — Sir Edward Coke. GENEALOGICAL NOTES AND QUERIES This is a very good land to fall...

...238. Sir Edward Coke, The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England (1628): "Reason itself is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason . . . The law, which is perfection of reason." 239. "Meonian" appears to be Thelwall's...