 | Delaware. General Assembly. House of Representatives - Delaware - 1885 - 1060 pages
...First Institute of the Laws of England — and lawyers and judges are fond of citing his remarks, says: "Reason is the life of the law, nay, the common law itself is nothing but reason, for then we are said to know the law when we apprehend the reason of the law; that is, when we bring... | |
 | Frederick W. Baldwin - Lawyers - 1886 - 398 pages
...conclusions as to the law governing the case under consideration. With Lord Coke, he believed that " reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason," and hence he brought his judgment, his sound common sense, and his instinctive sense... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - American periodicals - 1926 - 916 pages
...be at peace, as said before; not only that, but pleasantly at peace as well. Sir Edward Coke says: "Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing but reason." But so is all law, even statutory law, and when, as is so often the case, statutory law is passed without... | |
 | Harvard University, Justin Winsor - 1887 - 404 pages
...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... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1888 - 876 pages
...Good counsel — 6. Good evidence — 7. A good jury — 8. A good judge — and lastly, good luck." " Reason is the life of the law, nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason." If a man says of a counsellor of law, Thou art a daffa-down-dilh/, an action lies.... | |
 | William Carlos Martyn - Biography & Autobiography - 1890 - 608 pages
...as the source and seat of human justice. The saying of Coke made a great impression on him, that " reason is the life of the law ; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason ;" ' and he would have agreed with Froude, that " our human laws are, or should be,... | |
 | Richard S. Peale - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 548 pages
...minutes, huddle up thcirwork, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene. Cowper. Reason. Reason la the life of the law ; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. . . . The law, which is perfection of reason. Coke. Sure, He that made us with such... | |
 | William S. Walsh - Curiosa - 1892 - 1116 pages
...speaking of " the gladsome light of jurisprudence," and declaring in a still more famous phrase that Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. The law, which is perfection of reason. Let us consider the reason of the case. For... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1892 - 1032 pages
...which he diligently profited by the instructions of the peerless Judge Story. Coke's affirmance, that " reason is the life of the law ; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason," deeply impressed him. Blackstone became his familiar. Admission to the bar was prophetic... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - Curiosa - 1892 - 1114 pages
...speaking of "the gladsome light of jurisprudence," and declaring in a still more famous phrase that Reason is the life of the law ; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. . . . The law, which is perfection of reason. We have Sir John Powell echoing Coke... | |
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