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CHARLES G. LITTLE s. JAMES BROWN,

BOOKS PUDLIsHED AND In PREss nv
CHARLES @. LITTLE g. JAMES BROWN,
BOSTON.
TINTED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE,
u 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 "
royal vo., about HOO pages. Price $3.50, in
superior law binding.
| This volume IL Continuation of the Statutes at
Large in vols, published by authority of Con-
gress in 1856.
"A COMPLETE sYNOPTICAL INDEX TO THE
Guiding those of the 3ls Congress, prepared under
order of the Senate and to be published agreea-
bly, to resolve of that honorable body. Royal vo.
This Index viii refer, under copious titles, TO
each law, and every joint and Senate and House
resolve, public or private, which has been passed
adopted under the Federal Constitution, 80 that
the reader may see at glance the whole law on
any single subject.
JUsTPUBLIsHED. DoMAT IN. , CIVIL LAW
INITS NATURAL ORDER, translatedin 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 Judgesin the Court of Common Pleas; now Lee,
turer on Civil and Parliamentary Law in Harvard
University In 2 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 intiu-
ence upon our jurisprudence, ia DoMAr. "whose
work, entitled The Civil Lai0 in its Natural Or
DER says Judge Story, preface to Bailments,)
considering the age and the circumstances In
which it was 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 dsembarrass those OF the principles
and provisions Of the Roman law, which are Of gen.
eral interest and application, from the technicali-
ties 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 Che work was particularly
intended for and adapted to the French jurispru-
dcnce Of the age it is not less applicable to every
system Of law, Of which the Roman code is either
part, in which it is recognised a body of
written reason. Besides the general claims which
the work thus possesses to the attention of the Anne
rscan lawyer, Domat has peculiar interesti in those
of the States whose legal institutions are 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-
brated work would be acceptable to the profession,
and have led them to engage in republication of
the English TRANSLATION Of it by DR.. Strahan.
FROM HON JUDGE EUsTIS, CHEF JUSTICE
OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
BRooxLINE, Der. IL, 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 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 use in this country The
present publication, from its form, its style of exc
cution, and moderate price, think, cannot fail in
remunerating you. The translation by Mr.. Stra-
nan has been tested; it is 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 advancein civilization is creating and in judg
ngof 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 toSbe
understood It cannot be otherwise with system
Of written 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
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
isolated position which the civil law has been per-
United 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 treatiscs that subject. Ihave
no doubt that in Louisiana, in Texas, in Califor-
na and in the new Territories of the United States,
as well as in Lower Canada, there will be ready
demand FOR your publication. The profession
throughout the Union will readily lend their favor
to the undertaking.; and trust that your enter
n.
from time to time, in the English language, such
other standard works as will form the basis Of n
civil law library.
Tsman very GaeSsf Eys
| Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN.
FROM ALFRED HENNEN. ESQ, OF THE
| NEW ORLEANS BAR.
BosroN, SEPT. 6, 1850.
| Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN: Gentlemen--I am
much pleased to learn that You are engaged in
publishing revised edition Of Strahans transla-
| ton of DOMAT ON CIVIL LAW. No work in
the gsh language, on the same subject, is TO be
compared with it, for the fullness and correctness
ofthe 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 copiously from it for their work. Ma
poleon himself studied it most carefully in early
life, which may account for the singular acuteness
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 Ii
| brary of every American lawyer.
| Your obedicnt servant, ALFRED HENNEN.
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1873 Second edition, with additional Notes and
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