"Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations."
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Sir James Mackintosh, quoted on the title page of Broom's Legal Maxims (1911).
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James Mackintosh
Sir James Mackintosh (October 24, 1765 – May 30, 1832) was a Scottish jurist, politician and historian. He was trained as a doctor and barrister, and worked also as a journalist, judge, administrator, professor and philosopher.
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