Herbert Broom

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.

Works

;Law books

• Practical Rules for determining Parties to Actions, 1843.
• Legal Maxims, 1845. third edition, 1858 Fifth edition, 1870.
• Practice of Superior Courts, 1850.
• Practice of County Courts, 1852.
• Commentaries on the Common Law, 1856. fourth London edition 1873
• Constitutional Law viewed in relation to Common Law and exemplified by Cases, 1st edition 1866; 2nd edition 1885.
• Commentaries on the Laws of England (with E. Hadley), 1869.
• Philosophy of Law; Notes of Lectures, 1876-8.

;Novels

• The Missing Will, 1877
• The Unjust Steward, 1879

References

References

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2. Broom, Herbert. (1847). "Practical Rules for Determining Parties to Actions: Digested and Arranged, with Cases". T. & J. W. Johnson.
3. Broom, Herbert. (1858). "A Selection of Legal Maxims, classified and illustrated". William Maxwell.
4. Broom, Herbert. (1873). "Commentaries on the Common Law: Designed as Introductory to Its Study". T. & J.W. Johnson.
5. (1885). "Constitutional Law Viewed in Relation to Common Law: And Exemplified by Cases". W. Maxwell & son.
6. (1875). "Commentaries on the Laws of England". John D. Parsons, Jr..
7. Broom, Herbert. (1876). "The Philosophy of Law: Being Notes of Lectures Delivered During Twenty-three Years (1852-1875) in the Inner Temple Hall, London". Baker, Voorhis & Company.