The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-02-05
HOOKS PUBLISHED AND IN PRESS BY
CHARLES C. LITTLE & JAMES BROWN,

BOOKS PUBLISHED AND IN PRESS BY
CHARLES C. LITTLE & JAMES BROWN,
BOSTON.
LIMITED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE,
~ VOLUMEIx. Will be published on the LIST of
April, next, "The Statutes at Large and Treaties
OF the United States of America, Volume TX,
comprising all the Legislation of the Congress of
tho United States from 1916 to 1851 inclusive;
royal vo, about 100 pages. Price $3.50, in
This volume is a continuation Of the Statutes at
large in s vols, published by authority of Con-
gress In 1856.
"a COMPLETE sYNoPTIcAL INDEX TO THE
UNITED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE, in
GLIDING those of the 3lst Congress- prepared under
order of the Senate ard 10 be published agreea-
bly, TO resolve OF thst honorable body. Royal vo.
This Index Will refer, under copious titles, TO
each law, and Every joint and Senate and House
resolve, puo'c or private, which has been passed
or adoptec under the Federal Constitution, that
inc REQ der may see at a glance the whole law on
any single subject.
JUSTPUBLISHED, DOMAT(M.) CIVIL LAW
INlTS NATURAL ORDER, translated into English
by VIM. Strahan, lid, Advocate in Doctors
Commons. Edited, from the second London Edi-
ton, by Hon. LUTHER S. CUSHING, late one of
the judgesi IN the Court of Common Pleas; now Lee
turer 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 exerted the most inilu-
ence upon Jurisprudence, is DoMAT, "whose
work, entitled The tivil Lao in its Natural Or
der" says Judge Story, preface to Bailments,)
considering the age and the circumstance in
which it was written, is truly wonderful per-
Torrance. His method is excellent, and his mat
ter clear, exact and comprehensive"
The object of the author, in this learned produc
ton, was to deembarras5 those OF the principles
and provisions of the Roman law, which Of gen
eral interest and application from the TECHNICAL
tiea OF the system, and, by presenting them in a
natural and scientific method, To render them more
lutelliplbIe. and their uaeful M
agreeable; and, though the work was particularly
intended for and adapted to the French jurispru-
dence of the age, it is not lees applicable to every
system of law, Of which the Roman code is either
part, or in which it Is recognised as body Of
written reason. Besides the general claims which
the work thus possesses TO the attention of the Anne
I.can lawyer, Domat has peculiar interest in those
of the States whose legal Institutions are derived
in part from those of France Spain, and arc thus
founded in the Roman law.
These reasons have induced belief on the part
of the publishers that modern edition of this cele-
brated work would be acceptable to the profession,
and have led them to engage in a republication of
the English translation Of itby Dr. strahnn.
FROM HOY; JUDGE EUsTIS, CHIEF JUSTICE
CT THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
BRooKLINE, Der. ii, 1850.
GENTLEMEN: 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 viii have rendered great service
10 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 use in this country The
present publications. from its form, it's style of
cution, and moderate price, Think, fail in
remunerating you. The translation by Mr.. Stra-
han has been tcsted il 10 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 arising 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 it comes to be
understood Ii cannot be otherwise with system
of written reasons which for centuries governed the
most wonderful social organization that the world
has ever witnessed, and which ia the real basis of
the Jurisprudence of continental Europe, and of a
large portion of that of England and the United
States.
1t would be quite useless for me to speak of the
merits Of the great work which your enterprise is
about to give TO the American public From the
united to occupy in England, few Of the standard
works concerning ii have been translated into Eng
lish, and this want has not been supplied by the
original English treatiscs on that subject. have
no doubt that in Louisiana, in Texas in Califor-
MIA, and in the new Territories Of the lifted States
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
other standard works will form the basis of
civil law library.
Temsan, gentlemen very ro repspeStfaly your
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