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.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary. 1  n Maxim maksâ²im a general principle, serving as a rule or guide: a pithy saying: a proverb.  n Maxim maksâ²im often put for Maxâ²im-gun, an automatic machine-gun capable of firing as many as 620 rounds per minute, and of accurate shooting up to 3000 yards.