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COK Mart. Conv. 38 ; 1 Kent's Cora. 506, and his Address, 1836, before the Law Ass. 13; Hoff. Leg. Stu. 227; Petersdorff's Com. 12; Anth. Blk. 45; Eunomus, 511, n. ; 1 Butler's Reminiscences, 115; Ram on Leg. Judg. 81 ; 1 Bos. & Pul. 123. COKE, SIR EDWARD. The Second Part of tlie Institutes of the Laws of England, containing the exposition of many ancient and other Statutes, fol. London. 1G42, 1662, 1669, 1671, 1681. 2 vols. 8vo. 1797,1809,1817. This and the two following Institutes, were published after the author's death, by order of the House of Commons. Lord Coke was particularly conversant with the Statute Law, and well skilled in its exposition. " His Commentary upon Magna Charla, and particularly on the cele- brated 29lh Chapter, is deeply interesting to the lawyers of the present age, as well from the value and dignity of the text, as the spirit of jus- tice and of civil liberty which pervades and animates the work. Upon these Statutes Lord Coke continually gives us his own Commentaries, very full of excellent learning, wherein he shows how the common law stood before the making of such Statutes, whether they are introductor}' of any new law, or only declaratory of the old ; what were the causes and ends of their being enacted," &c. Warren's L. S. 265 ; 1 Kent's Com. 507; Woolrych's Life of Coke, 226; Nic. Eng. Hist, Lib. 37. . The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, concerning High Treason, and other Pleas of the Crown, and Criminal Causes, fol. London. 1644, 1648, 1660, 1669, 1670, 1680. 8vo. 1797, 1809, 1817. " Coke's Third Institute is a Treatise of great learning, and not un- worthy the hand that produced it ; but yet it seems by no means a com- plete work, many considerable heads being either wholly omitted in it or barely touched upon. Having run over all criminal matters, and their leo-al punishments, he concludes with the nature of pardons and restitu- tions; showing how far, in each of these, our Kings can proceed alone, and where they want the assistance and joint power of their Parlia- ments." Pref. Hawk. PI. Cr. ; Pref. Nic. Hist. Lib. 80 ; 1 Kent's Com. 507. . The Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, concerning the Jurisdiction of Courts, fol. London. 1644, 1648, 1660, 1669, 1671, 1681. 8vo. 1797, 1809, 1817. Coke's posthumous works have been severely criticised, and never received the high homage of his first Institute and Reports. They did not receive the finishing corrections of their author, and for this reason considerable allowance should be made, for " we know not what injustice 208