1680 Edward Coke Reports ENGLISH LAW Judicial Court Cases England HUGE FOLIO

“[Corporations] cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicate, for they have no souls.”

– Edward Coke, The Reports, “Case of Sutton’s Hospital”

A rare second edition of Edward Coke’s English legal reports. Edward Coke was an English judge and lawyer from the 16^th- and early 17^th-centuries being most remembered for his prosecution in the Gunpowder Plot, as well as writing ‘The Reports’. His judicial rulings resounded all over the western world, in fact, his decisions had a direct influence on the third, fourth, and sixteenth amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

‘The Reports’ is a gathering of specific court cases with commentary and arguments. Cases include handling of money exchange whether it be through loans, income, and gift-giving, common pleas cases, and financial obligations. These law reports have been some of the most important and popular writings on court cases in the English language. According to law scholar John Baker, these ‘Reports’ are

“of excellent quality, having the distinction of being cited simply as ‘The Reports’, and are perhaps the single most influential series of named reports”

Theodore Plunckett referred to ‘Reports’ with ‘incomparable richness [with] profound influence upon the literature, and indeed the substance, of English Law”

Item number: #1513

Price: $1250

COKE, Edward

The reports of Sir Edward Coke, Kt. late Lord Chief Justice of England. Of divers resolutions and judgments given upon solemn arguments, and with great deliberation, and conference of the most reverend judges, and sages of the law; of cases in law which never were resolved or adjudged before; and the reasons and causes of the said resolutions and judgments. ... The second edition carefully compared with the French ... With a table to the whole.

London, Printed for H. Twyford, T. Collins, T. Basset, F. Wright, S. Heyrick, T. Sawbridge, M. Pitt, C. Harper, and J. Place, 1680. Second edition.

Details:

·       Collation complete with all pages: [4], 882, [122]

·        References: Wing C 4946; Arber Term Cat., I. 424; John Baker, Coke Reports; Plunckett, Genesis of Coke’s Reports.

·       Binding: Leather; tight & secure

·       Language: English

·       Size: ~13.75in X 9.5in (34.5cm x 24cm)

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