 ... 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 of cases,) the law, by this time,...  Eminent British Lawyers - Page 17by Henry Roscoe - 1830 - 428 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Association of American Law Schools - Law - 1908 - 842 pages
...they contain infinite good decisions and rulings over cases), the law by this time had been almost like a ship without ballast, for that the cases of...those that are adjudged and ruled in former time." Moreover, his careless and disorderly mixture of things great and small is balanced by the grasp of... | |
 | Charles Warren - Law - 1908 - 616 pages
...Bacon had said "Had it not been for Sir Edward Coke's Reports .... the law by this time had been almost like a ship without ballast for that the cases of...those that are adjudged and ruled in former time." These few reports, together with a small number of authoritative reports published in the reign of... | |
 | Charles Warren - Courts - 1911 - 608 pages
...Bacon had said, "Had it not been for Sir Edward Coke's Reports ... the law by this time had been almost like a ship without ballast for that the cases of...those that are adjudged and ruled in former time." ' See Wallace's The Reporters (1845); The English Law Reporters, — Harvard Lav Review, Vol. XV. Of... | |
 | Law - 1917 - 1106 pages
...that system has been so proud. Bacon says that but for Coke's work of restatement, the law would have been "like a ship without ballast ; for that the cases...fled from those that are adjudged and ruled in former times." u To use Professor Pound's suggestive phrases, beginning with Coke an era of "law without justice"... | |
 | Law - 1916 - 490 pages
...that system has been so proud. Bacon says that but for Coke's work of restatement, the law would have been "like a ship without ballast; for that the cases...fled from those that are adjudged and ruled in former times" (Bacon's Writings (Spedding's ed.), v. XIII., p. I 42i) CANADA LAW JOURNAL. 60). To use Professor... | |
 | Sir William Searle Holdsworth - Law - 1928 - 192 pages
...political opponent. " Had it not been for Sir Edward Coke's reports the law of this time had almost been like a ship without ballast; for that the cases...fled from those that are adjudged and ruled in former times." 21 Coke's writings, by preserving the essential continuity of the common law in this age of... | |
 | English literature - 1846 - 556 pages
...days of the Hargraves and Butlers ; and as to the Reports, let his great rival Bacon speak : — ' To give every man ' his due, had it not been for Sir...those that are ' adjudged and ruled in former time.' His professional admirers may fairly rest here ; and perhaps this would be their wisest course ; for... | |
 | Sir William Searle Holdsworth - Biography - 1938 - 326 pages
...Bacon — "had it not been for Sir Edward Coke's reports", he wrote,1 "the law by this time had almost been like a ship without ballast; for that the cases...fled from those that are adjudged and ruled in former times". It was also recognized in the present century by Maitland — "Coke's books", he said in a... | |
 | Frederick Charles Hicks - Law - 1921 - 284 pages
...they contain infinite good decisions and rulings over of cases), the law by this time had been almost like a ship without ballast; for that the cases of...those that are adjudged and ruled in former time." "And I do assure your Majesty," runs an ungracious compliment later on in the same letter, "I am in... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - History - 1993 - 436 pages
...wrote : ' had it not been for Sir Edward Coke's Reports . . . the law by this time had been almost like a ship without ballast; for that the cases of...fled from those that are adjudged and ruled in former time'.64 'It is too long a business', he declared in this same paper, 'to debate whether lex scripta... | |
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