Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason... The law, which is perfection of reason. - Edward Coke

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Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason... The law, which is perfection of reason.

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About Edward Coke

Sir Edward Coke (1 February 1552 – 3 September 1634) was an English Judge and jurist and later a politician whose writings on the English common law were definitive legal texts for some 300 years.

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