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April, next, 1.-THE Statutes at Large and Treaties
Of the United States Of America, Volume TX,
comprising all the Legislation Of the Congress o.
the United States from 1876 to 1881 inclusive
royal vo., about HOO pages. Price $3.50, IN
superior law binding.
This volume is a continuation of the Statutes Al
Large in vols, published by authority Of Con.
gress in 1856.
.ACoMPLETE SYNOPTICAL INDEX TO THE
UNITED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE, in
GLIDING those Of the 3st Congress, prepared under
order of the Senate, and to be published agreea
bly, TO q resolve of that honorable body. Royal yo
This Index will refer, under copious titles, to
each law, and every joint and Senate and House
resolve, public or private, which has been passed
or adopted under the Federal Constitution, so that
the reader may see at glance the whole law on
any single subject.
JUST PUBLISHED, DOMAT (N. CIVIL LAW
INITS NATURAL ORDER, translatedinto English
by VIM. Strahan, LID, Advocate in Doctors
Commons Edited; from the second LONDON ,n Edl !,
the Judges in the Court Of Common Pleas; now Lee
turer on Civil and Parliamentary Law in Harvard
University. In vols Royal svo
Among the writers on the Roman Law whose
works are best known to English and American
lawyers, and which have exerted the most influ-
enoe upon our jurisprudence is DoMAT, ''whose
DER" says Judge Story, preface to Bailments,)
considering the age and the circumstances in
which it was written, is truly wonderful per-
ter clear, exact, and comprehensive"
The object Of the author, in this learned produc-
ton, was TO dsembarrass those Of the principles
and provisions of the Roman law, which are of gen.
eral interest and application, from the TECHNICAL
ties Of the system, and, by presenting them in a
natural and scientific method, to render them more
Ineligible, and their attainment useful and
agreeable; and, though The work was particularly
intended for and adapted to the French jurispru.
dence Of the age, is not less applicable to every
system Of law, If which the Roman code is either
part, or in which it is recognised body of
be- oIr1o k,k
the work thus possesses to the attention Of the Anne
r!can lawyer, Domat has peculiar interest in those
of the States, whose legal institutions arc derived
in part from those OF France or Spain and thus
founded in the Roman law.
These reasons have induced belief ON the part
of the publishers that modern edition of this cele-
brnted work would be acceptable to the profession,
and have led them TO engage in 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.
GENrLEMEN: have examined the sheets of the
translation Of the admirable work of Domat 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
the English edition of the translation was too
large and inconvenient-and its scarcity and high
price prevented its general use in this country The
present publication, from its form, its style Of
cution, and moderate price, Think, cannot fail in
remunerating you. The translation by Mr.. Stra-
han has been tested; it is in the main correct but
will be improved under the revision Of tho editor
Judge Cushing.
In searching for solution of the apparently new
questions arising out Of the various relations which
ing of those reforms ofthe law which in progress
in different parts of the United States, thevaue of
the civil law will be appreciated il comes to be
understood. 1t cannot be otherwise with a system
of written reasons which for centuries governed the
most wonderful social organization that the world
has ever Witnessed and which is the real basis of
the jurisprudence of continental Europe, and of
large portion Of that of England and the United
States.
II would be quite useless for me to speak of the
merits of the great work which your enterprise 10
about to give to the American public. From the
isolated position which the civil law has been per-
mitted to occupy in England, few of the standard
works concerning it have been translated into Eng
lish, and this want has not been supplied by the
original English treatises that subject. have
no doubt that in Louisiana, in Texas, in Califor-
MIA and in the new Territories of the u tied States
as well as in Lower Canada, there will be a ready
demand for your publication. The profession
throughout the Union will readily lend their favor
TO the undertaking.; and trust that your enter
prising house will find it's interest in publishing,
from time to time, in the English language, such
civil law library.
.a remain gentlemen very osssPsstfssly your
Mcssrs. LITTLE x BRowN.
FROM ALFRED HENNEN, ESQ, OF THE
NEW ORLEANS BAR.
BosTos, SEPT. 6, 1850.
Niessrs LITTLE 4 BsowN: Gentlemen-I am
much pleased to learn that you engaged in
publishing revised edition Of Strahan's transla-
ton of DOMAT ON CIVIL LAW. No work in
the English language, the subject, ia to be
compared with it, for the fullness and correctness
oil the doctrine conveyed throughout it.
From the time Of its publication, up to the pre-
learned men and lawyers In every country, and
very deservedly. The compilers Of the Code Ma
poleon drew copousy from it for their work. Ma
poleon himself studied it most carefully in early
lifc which may account for the singular acutcness
and wisdom of his observations and decisions dur
Ing the discussions the adoption of his code
Domat should, and hope will be, found in the H.
Your obedient servant, ALFRED HENNEN.
REPORTS OF CASES argued and determined in
the Circuit Court Of the United States for the first
circuit from 1912 to 1851, follows:
GALLISON'S REPORTS. Reports of Cases ar
gued and determined in the Circuit Court of the
United States, for the first Circuit, from 1912 to
References. vols. 6vo Boston, 1885.
al should omit doing justice to my own feelings,
well to the cause Of truth, if were not to
lect the decisions in Collisions and Mason's Re-
may fairly be placed upon level with the best
productions fthc English Admiralty, for deep and
accurate learning, well as for the highest ability
and wisdom in decision. % Kent, 20; (2) 527.
NASON (Wllnam ~ hEfOhlS VI GASES
in the Circuit Court of the United States for the
First Circuit, from 1916 to $780, vols svo.
"These Reports comprise the Decisions of Mr..
Justice Story on tho First Circuit of the United
States, and follow in order after Mr.. Collisions
Reports. The Decisions relate to a great variety
of Observation-Disclosures Admiralty, Personal
and Real Law, and Chanccry, and are character
iczd by the profound learning, acuteness, and
thoroughnsss of research, which are such eminent
4 aits OF their author. They will bear favorable
comparison, in point of learning and practical
utility, with the best volumes of the English Re-
porte"
SUMMERS REPORTS. Sumner (Charles.)
Reports of Cases argued and determined in the
Circuit Court of the United States for the First Cir
cult. vols. Svo.
"These volumes contain the decisions Of Mr..
Justice Story, and form a continuation TO the
riss OF Gallison and Mason. The decisions in the
present volumes relate particularly to questions of
Equity and Admiralty, and are Of great practical
value"
S1ORY'S REPORTS. Story (William W.
Reports OF Cases argued and determined in the
Circuit Court of the United States for the First Cir