Edward Coke
historical figure · 2 works · 7 mentions · 21 anchored passages
Coke · Sir Edward Coke
in the texts
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Later legal commentator whose claim that women before 1215 could appeal for the death of any ancestor is rejected by McKechnie as unsupported.
There seems to be no authority for Coke’s hasty inference, that previous to 1215 a woman had an appeal for the death of any of her “ancestors”:
Coke, Sec.
cited Coke (Second Institute, proem).
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
Seventeenth-century English jurist whose Institutes are quoted, then accused of fabricating a self-serving interpretation of Magna Carta.
Coke quotes this commentary, (in the original French,) and then endorses it in these words:
These are some of the innumerable frauds by which the English people have been cheated out of the trial by jury.
Coke says, “Baylife is a French word, and signifies an officer concerned in the administration of justice of a certain province;