When1: 1592
When2: 1641
Who: Edward Coke [Coke, Edward]
What: lawyer/judge
Where: London, England
works\ Treatise on Bail and Mainprize [1592: about depositing money to avoid jail while awaiting trial and ordering sheriffs to take bail]; Fines [1597: about penalties]; Beverley's Case [1603]; Book of Entries [1614: about writs and pleading]; Complete Copyholder [1630: about tenancy at will]; Institutes [1641: First volume was on common law, second was on ancient statutes, third was on criminal law, and fourth was on court jurisdiction]
Detail: He lived 1552 to 1644. He defended common law in Shelley's case, became Solicitor General of the Realm [1592], entered Parliament [1593], became Attorney General [1594], and later became Parliament Speaker. He became Chief Justice of Court of Common Pleas, the highest possible judge office, and became Chief Justice of the King's Bench under King James [1613 to 1616]. He refused to stay an action for the king, because it was against the law, and the king suspended him from Privy Council and then discharged him from office. He rejoined Privy Council [1617] and then entered Parliament again. He fought for constitutional rights and upheld Parliament against king [1620]. He became Baron Veculam and then Viscount St. Albans.
In Fuller case, he won common law courts right to issue prohibition writs. He blocked King James I from changing law, establishing that only Parliament was able to change law. He blocked King James's proclamation to stop using grain for starch, because Parliament had not proclaimed it. He worked against monopolies. He defended common law or civil law. He wrote about bail, mainprize, and copyhold estate.
He was always at legal and personal odds with Francis Bacon.
Psychology
Insane people do not know what they do and cannot have criminal intent. Insanity is not a defense if people know right from wrong {right-wrong test}. Drunkards, idiots, or fools can be insane at the time [1604].
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