Herbert Broom (1815–1882) was an English writer on law.
Life
Broom was born at
Kidderminster in 1815, and was educated at
Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated as a
wrangler in 1837.[1] 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.[2]
Legal Maxims, 1845. third edition, 1858[3] Fifth edition, 1870.
Practice of Superior Courts, 1850.
Practice of County Courts, 1852.
Commentaries on the Common Law, 1856. fourth London edition 1873[4]
Constitutional Law viewed in relation to Common Law and exemplified by Cases, 1st edition 1866; 2nd edition 1885.[5]
Commentaries on the Laws of England (with E. Hadley), 1869.[6]
^Broom, Herbert; Hadley, Edward Alfred; Blackstone, Sir William (1875).
Commentaries on the Laws of England. John D. Parsons, Jr. Retrieved 24 September 2014.