Manual recounts resumed in Florida's Broward and Palm Beach counties following the Thanksgiving holiday. Mr Gore had a net gain of 245 votes by early yesterday. Bush lawyers filed rebuttals of Mr Gore's arguments to the US supreme court over whether the court should stop the Florida recounts.
What is MAXIM? An established principle or proposition. A principle of law universally admitted, as being a correct statement of the law, or as agreeable to natural reason. Coke defines a maxim to be âconclusion of reason,â and says that it is so called âquia maxima ejus dignitas et certissima auctorir tas, et quod maxime omnibus probetur.â Co. Litt. llo.
m[=a] to measure. See {Mete} to measure.]. 1. Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on number, quantity, and accent of syllables; rhythm; measure; verse; also, any specific rhythmical arrangements; as, the Horatian meters; a dactylic meter. The only strict antithesis to prose is meter.