Edward Coke - Reason Quotes

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Only this incident inseparable every custom must have, viz., that it be consonant to reason; for how long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.

Edward Coke

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

And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient.

Edward Coke