title: Herbert Broom
text: # Herbert Broom
  
  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. 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
  