The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-12-25
hooks PUBLISHED AND IN PkEss BY
CHARLES C. LITTLE & JAM Es BROWN,

CHARLES G. LITTLE q JAMES bhO"N'
BOSTON.
TINTED STATES STATUTES AT LAkGE,
u VOLUMEIX Will be published on the lSt oil
April next "The Statutes at Large and ireaues
of the United States of America, Volume *,
comprising all the legislation OF the Congress OF
the United States from 1916 To 1921 inclusive
royal vo. about 100 pages Price $500 In
superior law binding
This volume is a continuation OF the Statutes al
Large in vols, published by authority Oh ION
gress in 1886.
A COMPLETE SYNOPTICAL INDEX TO THE
UNITED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE, IN
GLIDING those of the 3lst Congress, prepared uhuer
an order of the Senate, and to be puDlshed gIeea
bly, to a resolve of that honorable body Koya' o'o
This Index will refer, under copious uties' 10
each law and every Joint and Senate ana House
resolve public or private, which mas oeeh passed
or adopted under the Federal Constitution 80 that
the reader may see at "a glance inc whoie Id" On
any single subject
JUSTPUnLISHED, DOMAT (M - CIVIL LAW
IN TITS NATURAL ORDER, translated into English
by VIM. Strahan, LII d., Advocate in Doctors
ton, by Hon LUTHER s. CUSHING, late one of
the gee in the Court of Common Pleas; now Lee
turcr on Civil and Parliamentary Law in Harvard
University In vols Royal Svo
Among the writer's on the Roman Law whose
works are best known to English and American
lawyers and which have cxerted the most infu-
ence upon our Jurisprudence, Is DomAT, "whose
work. entitled The Cipii Lac in its Natural Or
der" says Judge Story, preface 10 Bailments,)
considering the age and the circumstances in
which it written, is truly wonderful per-
formance. His method is excellent, and his mat
ter clear, exact, and comprehensive
The object of the author, In this learned produc-
ton, was to disembarrass those Of the principles
and provisions of the Roman law, which are OF gen
era interest and application, from the technicali-
tics of the system, and, by presenting them in
natural and scientific method, to render them more
Ineligible, and their attainment more useful and
agreeable and, though the work was particularly
ipte pdel for nd adj French
dence of the age it ID not less applicable to every
system of law, Of which the Roman code is either
part, in which 1t Is recognised as a body OF
written reason. Besides the general claims which
the work thus possesses to the attention OF the Anne
rcan lawyer, Domat has peculiar interest in those
of the States whose legal institutions are derived
in part from those OF France or Spain, and are thus
founded in the Roman law.
These reasons nave induced belief the part
of the publishers that modern edition Of this cele
bratcd work would be acceptable to the profession
and have led them to engage in a republication Of
the English translation OF it by DIR. Strahan
FROM HON: JUDGE EUsTIs, CHIEF JUSTICE
OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
BRooKLINE, Der. IL, 1850.
GxNTLEMEN: have examined the sheets of the
translation of the admirable work OF Dolnat on the
Civil Law which you have been kind enough to
send me. You will have rendered great service
to the science of law by the publication. The form
of the English edition OF the translation was too
large and inconvenient-and its scarcity and high
price prevented its general this country. The
present publication, from ito form, its style OF exc
cution, and moderate price, think, cannot fail IN
remunerating you. The translation by Mr. Stra-
han has been tested il il in the main correct, but
will be improved under the revision OF the editor,
Judge Cushing.
In searching for "A solution Of the apparently new
questions arsing out OF the various relations which
our advance in civilization is creating, and in Judg-
ing of those reforms of the law which in progress
in different parts of the United States, the value OF
the civil law will be appreciated as it comes to be
understood. IL cannot be otherwise with a system
OF written which for centuries governed the
most wonderful social organization that the world
has witnessed, and which - the real basis ol
the iurisp rudence of continental Europe, and of a
large portion of that of England and the United
States.
IL would he quite useless for me to speak of the
merits of the great work which your enterprise is
about 10 give 10 the American public. From the
isolated position which the civil law has been per
mitted To occupy III England, few OF the standard
works concerning IL have been translated into Eng
llsh, and this want has not been supplied by the
original English treatisos on that subject. have
mo doubt that in Louisiana, in Texas, in Caliior-
MIA and in the Territories OF the tied States,
ms well as in Lower Canada, there will be ready
demand for your publication. The profession
throug hout the Union will readily lend their favor
10 the undertaking; and ] trust that your enter
prising house will find it, interest in publishing
from time To time, in the English language, such
other standard works as will form the basis OF a
civil law library.
remain, gentlemen, very respectfully, your
obedient servant GEORGE EUSTlS.
Messrs LITTLE Baows.