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Books A Selection of Legal Maxims, Classified and Illustrated |
Herbert Broom (1815–1882) was an English writer on law.
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Life
Broom was born at Kidderminster in 1815, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated as a wrangler in 1837. He proceeded LL.D. in 1864. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in Michaelmas term 1840, and practised on the home circuit. For a considerable period he occupied the post of reader of common law at the Inner Temple. He died at the Priory, Orpington, Kent, on 2 May 1882.
Legal Maxims (1845) gained wide circulation as an established text-book for students.
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