Institutes of the Laws of England

1. An Essay on the Trial by Jury Lysander Spooner 1 authority · 2 refuted 3 citations · 10 passages

   ch. 23 10 passages anchored here

   Coke's Institutes are cited repeatedly as authoritative legal commentary on Magna Carta's terms.

   Coke, in his exposition of the words legem terræ, gives quite in detail the principles of the common law governing arrests;

2. Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John William Sharp McKechnie 1 authority · 1 neutral · 1 refuted 3 citations · 4 passages

   ch. 11 · ch. 94 · (5): contenement. · (2): evasion of its spirit.

   Coke is named as a classical legal authority who, like Littleton, gave little attention to leasehold and copyhold.

   The two last–mentioned may be rapidly dismissed, as they were of little importance in the eyes of Littleton, or of Coke:

3. Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated John Taylor of Caroline 1 authority 1 citation

   section 3.: sovereignty.

   Lord Coke is named directly as the source of an observation used to characterize the practically unlimited scope of English sovereign power.

   and finally, this fluctuating sovereignty has settled, not upon the people, but upon king, lords and commons, with a power unlimited, except as lord Coke observes, that it is unequal to impossibilities.

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