{"id":837,"date":"2015-07-17T16:45:10","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T23:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiduciarydutiesblog.com\/?p=837"},"modified":"2015-07-17T16:45:10","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T23:45:10","slug":"knowledge-of-the-law-is-like-a-deep-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/?p=837","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge of the law is like a deep well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Edward Coke was born in 1552.\u00a0 He was regarded as a great lawyer.\u00a0 He was twice married, his domestic life being full of quarrels.\u00a0 Coke was one of the most truculent of English lawyers, and an arch-rival of Francis Bacon.\u00a0 \u201cHe was a potent element in Francis Bacon&#8217;s ruin,\u201d says Dean Church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fiduciarydutiesblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/coke.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-838\" src=\"http:\/\/fiduciarydutiesblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/coke.jpg\" alt=\"Fresno lawyer\" width=\"220\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a>On the study of law, Coke said the following, true now for many centuries:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our student shall observe, that the knowledge of the law is like a deepe well, out of which each man draweth according to the strength of his understanding.\u00a0 He that reacheth deepest, he seeth the amiable and admirable secrets of the law, wherein I assure you the sages of the law in former times (whereof sir William Herle was a principal one) have had the deepest reach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd as the bucket in the depth is easily drawn to the uppermost part of the water, (for <em>nullum elementum in suo propio loco est grave<\/em>) but take it from the water, it cannot be drawne up but with great difficultie; so albeit beginnings of this study seem difficult, yet when the professor of the law can dive into the depth, it is delightfull easie and without any heavy burthen so long as he keepe himselfe in his own proper element.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Edward Coke was born in 1552.\u00a0 He was regarded as a great lawyer.\u00a0 He was twice married, his domestic life being full of quarrels.\u00a0 Coke was one of the most truculent of English lawyers, and an arch-rival of Francis Bacon.\u00a0 \u201cHe was a potent element in Francis Bacon&#8217;s ruin,\u201d says Dean Church. On the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}