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 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 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 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.
” (Great was formerly the reverence for Magna Carta.
Coke says Magna Carta was confirmed thirty-two times.
He also says, “That after this parliament (52 Henry III.
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.