The Selected Writings and Speeches of Sir Edward Coke
Author : Sir Edward Coke
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Page : 676 pages
File Size : 27,25 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Law
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Author : Sir Edward Coke
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Page : 676 pages
File Size : 27,25 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Law
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Author : Allen D. Boyer
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 20,27 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804748094
Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), the first judge to strike down a law, gave us modern common law by turning medieval common law inside-out. Through his resisting strong-minded kings, he bore witness for judicial independence. Coke is the earliest judge still cited routinely by practicing lawyers. This book breaks new ground as the first scholarly biography of Coke, whose most recent general biography appeared in 1957, and draws revealingly on Coke's own papers and notebooks. The book covers Cokes early life and career, to the end of the reign of Elizabeth I in 1603 (a second volume will cover Cokes career under James I and Charles I). In particular, this book highlights Coke's close connection with the Puritans of England; his learning, legal practice, and legal theory; his family life and ambitious dealings; and the treason cases he prosecuted.
Author : David Chan Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,87 MB
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1316148106
Throughout his early career, Sir Edward Coke joined many of his contemporaries in his concern about the uncertainty of the common law. Coke attributed this uncertainty to the ignorance and entrepreneurship of practitioners, litigants, and other users of legal power whose actions eroded confidence in the law. Working to limit their behaviours, Coke also simultaneously sought to strengthen royal authority and the Reformation settlement. Yet the tensions in his thought led him into conflict with James I, who had accepted many of the criticisms of the common law. Sir Edward Coke and the Reformation of the Laws reframes the origins of Coke's legal thought within the context of law reform and provides a new interpretation of his early career, the development of his legal thought, and the path from royalism to opposition in the turbulent decades leading up to the English civil wars.
Author : Allen D. Boyer
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,95 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780865974265
Sir Edward Coke remains one of the most important figures in the history of the common law. The essays collected in this volume provide a broad context for understanding and appreciating the scope of Coke's achievement: his theory of law, his work as a lawyer and a judge, his role in pioneering judicial review, his leadership of the Commons, and his place in the broader culture of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Sir Edward Coke claimed for judges the power to strike down statutes, created the modern common law by reshaping medieval precedents, and, in the House of Commons, led the gathering forces that would ultimately establish a constitutional regime of ordered liberty and responsible, representative government. Although much has been written on Coke, there has been no single adequate study or collection of these writings until now. Law, Liberty, and Parliament brings together material that not only is useful for understanding Coke's career and achievement but also illuminates the late Elizabethan and early Stuart periods in which the common law became inextricably identified with constitutional authority. Allen D. Boyer, author of Sir Edward Coke and the Elizabethan Age, is a lawyer in New York City and a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review. Dr. Boyer serves on the advisory board of the Yale Center for Parliamentary History.
Author : Sir Edward Coke
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Page : 482 pages
File Size : 20,19 MB
Release : 1797
Category : Courts
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Author : Sir Edward Coke
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Page : 710 pages
File Size : 21,44 MB
Release : 1830
Category : Land tenure
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Author : Frederick Pollock
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Page : 738 pages
File Size : 30,85 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Law
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Author : Catherine Drinker Bowen
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Page : 670 pages
File Size : 29,93 MB
Release : 1957
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Author : Cuthbert William Johnson
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Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,24 MB
Release : 1837
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Author : Matthew Hale
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 16,36 MB
Release : 2018-10-10
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ISBN : 9780342064281
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