"Let not the American student of law supposes that the same necessity does not here exist, as in England, to make this 'golden book,' his principal guide in the real law. All precedent in this country contradicts such an idea. The present generation of distinguished lawyers, as well as that which has just passed away, have given ample proofs of their familiarity with the writings of lord Coke; and our numerous volumes of reports daily illustrate that, with trivial exceptions, what is the law of real property at Westminster Hall, is equally so in the various tribunals throughout our extensive country."
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David Hoffman, A Course of Legal Study, Addressed to Students and the Profession Generally, Vol. I (2nd ed. 1836), p. 227
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Edward Coke
Sir Edward Coke (1 February 1552 ā 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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