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“

Reason is the life of the law, nay the common law itself is nothing else but reason.

”

— Edward Coke, 17th-century Lord Chief Justice

Source

Coke, Edward" The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Ed. Susan Ratcliffe. Oxford University Press, 2006. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. 22 September 2010 [1]