Herbert Broom (1815–1882) was an English writer on law.

Life

Broom was born at

Kidderminster Kidderminster is a large market and historic minster town and civil parish in Worcestershire, England, south-west of Birmingham and north of Worcester. Located north of the River Stour and east of the River Severn, in the 2011 census, it had ...

in 1815, and was educated at

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by Henry VIII, King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge ...

, where he graduated as a wrangler in 1837. He proceeded LL.D. in 1864. He was

called to the bar The call to the bar is a legal term of art in most common law jurisdictions where persons must be qualified to be allowed to argue in court on behalf of another party and are then said to have been "called to the bar" or to have received "call to ...

at the

Inner Temple The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, commonly known as the Inner Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court and is a professional associations for barristers and judges. To be called to the Bar and practise as a barrister in England and Wal ...

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 Orpington is a town and area in south east London, England, within the London Borough of Bromley. It is 13.4 miles (21.6 km) south east of Charing Cross. On the south-eastern edge of the Greater London Built-up Area, it is south of St Ma ...

, 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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Broom, Herbert 1815 births 1882 deaths 19th-century English non-fiction writers People from Kidderminster Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Members of the Inner Temple English legal writers