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date: 24 January 2025

Edward, Lord Thurlow 1731–1806
English jurist 

  1. Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like.
    usually quoted as ‘Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and no body to be kicked?’
    John Poynder Literary Extracts (1844) vol. 1; see Coke