Bacon
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Bacon, referenced as the source of reforming legal ideas that Coke detested.
A devotee of the common law, he detested the reforming ideas of Bacon fully as much as the despotic arbitrariness of James.
The Law of Intellectual Property
English philosopher named as one of the great men Camden invokes.
“It would be unworthy such men [as Bacon, Newton, Milton, and Locke], to traffic with a dirty bookseller!
The Law of Torts
Early legal writer cited for his statement on accidental injury caused in archery practice.
” And Bacon had said earlier to the same purpose, that “if a man be killed by misadventure, as by an arrow at butts, this hath a pardon of course: