"[T]o give every man his due, had it not been for Sir Edward Coke's Reports, which though they may have errors, and some peremptory and extrajudicial resolutions more than are warranted; yet they contain infinite good decisions, and rulings over cases: the law, by this time, had been almost like a ship without ballast."
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Francis Bacon, A Proposition to His Majesty by Sir Francis Bacon, Knight, His Majesty's Attorney General, and One of His Privy Council; Touching the Compiling and Amendment of the Laws of England, quoted in The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, Volume IV (1803), p. 367
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Edward Coke
Sir Edward Coke (1 February 1552 β 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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