BY HERBERT BROOM, LL.D., OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW; READER IN COMMON LAW Maxims are the condensed Good Sense of Nations.-SIR J. MACKINTOSH. SEVENTH AMERICAN, FROM THE FIFTH LONDON EDITION, WITH REFERENCES TO AMERICAN CASES. PHILADELPHIA: T. & J. W. JOHNSON & CO., LAW BOOKSELLERS, PUBLISHERS AND IMPORTERS. 535 CHESTNUT STREET. PREFACE TO THE FIFTH LONDON EDITION. In this Edition the text has been carefully revised, and redundant or obsolete matter has been expunged, its place having been supplied by illustrations of Legal Maxims, extracted from the most recent reported cases. The increasing favor shown by professional and non-professional readers for this Work has stimulated my endeavors to render it more worthy of their confidence. H. B. THE TEMPLE, April 28th, 1870. |