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The Evolution of the Independence of the Judiciary: Address of Hampton L ... - Page 16
by Hampton Lawrence Carson - 1914 - 36 pages
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The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary ...

Sir Edward Coke - Land tenure - 1812 - 642 pages
...with him. That which we have formerly written, that this book is the ornament of the common law, and the most perfect and absolute work that ever was written in any humane science ; and in another place, that which I affirmed and took upon me to maintain against all...
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The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A ..., Volume 1

Sir Edward Coke - Land tenure - 1817 - 950 pages
...Aristotle. That which we have formerly written, that this book is the ornament of the common law, and the most' perfect and absolute work that ever was written in any human science ; and in another place, that which I affirmed and took upon me to maintain against all opposites whatsoever,...
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Lectures on History, and General Policy: To which is Prefixed, An Essay on a ...

Joseph Priestley - Education - 1826 - 652 pages
...by acts of parliament, and others are disused and grown obsolete. Sir Edward Coke says that this is the most perfect and absolute work that ever was written in any human science. The first volume of Coke's Institutes is only a translation and comment upon this book. Sir Edward's Complete...
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The history of Devonshire, Volume 2

Thomas Moore (writer on Devon.) - 1829 - 312 pages
...book," he says in his Preface to his Commentaries upon it, " is the ornament of the common law, and the most perfect and absolute work that ever was written in any human science." — " It is a work of as absolute perfection of its kind, and as free from error, as any book that...
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The Legal Observer, Or, Journal of Jurisprudence, Volume 6

Law - 1833 - 548 pages
...Tenures, •written in the reign of Edward 4, and which Coke calls " the ornament of the common law, the most perfect and absolute work that ever was written in any human science." Sir William Jones described it as " the English Lawyer's great master," anc in its composition, remarkable...
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Lives of eminent persons; consisting of Galileo, Kepler

Lives - 1833 - 588 pages
...let a year pass without reading it through. Coke himself calls it " the ornament of the common law, the most perfect and absolute work that ever was written in any human science ;" and if his testimony be rejected as partial or exaggerated, no one will refuse to acknowledge that...
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Lives of Eminent Persons

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1833 - 606 pages
...let a year pass without reading it through. Coke himself calls it " the ornament of the common law, the most perfect and absolute work that ever was written in any human science;" and if his testimony be rejected as partial or exaggerated, no one will refuse to acknowledge that...
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Lives of Eminent Persons: Consisting of Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Mahomet ...

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1833 - 584 pages
...let a year pass without reading it through. Coke himself calls it " the ornament of the common law, the most perfect and absolute work that ever was written in any human science ;" and if his testimony be rejected as partial or exaggerated, no one will refuse to acknowledge that...
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Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volume 1

Englishmen - 1836 - 254 pages
...ever known to be written of any human learning;" and that it is "the ornament of the common law, and the most perfect and absolute work that ever was written in any human science."1 It is supposed that this treatise was finished but a short time previous to his death, which...
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Lyttleton, His Treatise of Tenures, in French and English,: A New Edition ...

Sir Thomas Littleton - Land tenure - 1841 - 794 pages
...written and published by Thomas Littleton, a grave and learned is the ornament of the common law, and the most perfect and absolute work that ever was written in any human science; and that it is a work of as absolute perfection in its kind, and as free from error, as any book that...
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