Lord Coke
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
English jurist whose writings on the Measure of Damages are cited comparatively.
and I have found it possible to extract from the quaint texts of the Book of Aicill some extremely sensible rulings on the difficult subject of the Measure of Damages, for which it would be vain to study the writings of Lord Coke, though these last are relatively of much later date.
A Protest Against Law-Taxes
English jurist named as reporting or holding the doctrine that statutes contrary to Magna Charta are void.
It was a conceit among the old lawyers, reported if not adopted by Lord Coke, that a statute made contrary to Magna Charta, though made in all the forms, would be a void law.
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
An English jurist cited regarding the plainness and simplicity of the common law.
“There is that great simplicity and plainness in the Common Law, that Lord Coke has gone so far as to assert, (and Lord Bacon nearly seconds him in observing,) that ‘he never knew two questions arise merely upon common law;