Coke
historical figure · 3 works · 7 mentions · 25 anchored passages
Sir Edward Coke · Edward Coke
in the texts
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Seventeenth-century jurist and commentator on Magna Carta, whose interpretations are examined and partly disputed.
Coke has attempted to give a more restricted explanation of the Crown’s rights in this respect, maintaining that the “year and day” was not an addition to, but a substitute for, the earlier right of “waste,” that the King renounced his barbarous claims in return for the undisputed enjoyment of the ordinary produce for one year only, and agreed, in return to hand over the land with all buildings an …
Coke in commenting on this passage draws a further distinction between “conviction,” which directly resulted from a confession or a verdict of guilty, and “attainder” which required a formal sentence by the judge.
Coke claims villeins as free for purposes of this chapter and of chapter 1, while rejecting them for the purposes of chapter 20.
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
Jurist (Sir Edward Coke) whose Institutes are extensively quoted on the meaning, authority, and confirmations of Magna Carta.
Coke also says, “All pretence of prerogative against Magna Charta is taken away.
Coke, who has labored so hard to overthrow the most vital principles of Magna Carta, and who, therefore, ought to be considered good authority when he speaks in its favor,* says:
Coke also says, “It (Magna Carta) was for the most part declaratory of the principal grounds of the fundamental laws of England, and for the residue it was additional to supply some defects of the common law.
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Coke, described as the legal hero of the Puritans and a formalist devotee of the common law, opposed both to Bacon's reforms and to royal arbitrariness.
Coke was the legal hero of the Puritans, and Coke was the stiffest of formalists.