The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-02-24
books PUBLISHED AND IN PRESS By
CHARLES G. LITTLE & JAMES BROWN,


CHARLES g. LITTLE ~ janice DIV" ~
BOSTON.
TINTED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE,
u VOLUMEIX. Will be published ON the LIST OF
April next "The Statutes at Large aud Treaties
of the United States OF America, volume iA, .
comprising all the legislation oil the congress OF
The United States from 1916 TO 1851 inclusive; ;
ROYAL vo., about 100 pages. Price S5.5o, In
superior law binding.
This volume is u continuation OF the Statutes at
Large in vols, published by authority OF Con-
gress In l545-6.
COMPLETE SYNOPTICAL INDEX TO THE
UNITED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE, in
GLIDING those of the 3lst Congress- prepared under
an order of the Senate, and to be published agreea-
bly, TO a resolve Of that honorable body Royal vo.
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 a glance the whole law on
any single subject.
JUST PUBLISHED, DOMAT tM.) CIVIL Law -,;Vs
INTTS NATURAL ORDER, transatedinto English
by VIM. Strahan, LID, Advocate IN Doctors
Commons. Edited, from the second London Edi-
ton, by Hon. LUTHER S. CUSHING, late one oil
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 beat known to English and American
LAWYERS and which have exerted the most infiu-
ence upon our Jurisprudence, Ii DoMAr, "whose
work, entitled The Cipii Lato IN its Natural Or
DER" says Judge Story, preface to Baiments,
considering the age and the circumstances In
which it was written, ia truly wonderful per-
formance. His method ia excellent, and his mat
ter clear exact, and comprehensive
The object Of the author, in this learned produce
ton was to disembarrass those Of the principles
and provisions of the Roman law, which of gem
eral interest and application, from the technicah-
tics of the system, and, by presenting them In
natural and scientific method to render them more
intelligible and their attainment more useful and
nd
intended for and adapted to the French Jurlspru-
dence Of the age it Is not less applcaoie 10 every
system Of law, Of which the Roman code Is either
q part, or in which 1t 10 recognised as a pody OF
written reason. Besides the general claims which
the work thus to the attention OF the Anne
rcan lawyer, Domat has peculiar interestin 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 have induced a belief on the part
of the publishers that modern edition OF this cee
braed 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, CHIEF JUSTICE
OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
BRooKLINE, Der. IL, 1850.
GESrLEMES: 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 MIR. Stra-
han has been tested; it is in the main correct but
will be improved under the revision OF the editor,
Judge Gushing.
In searching for q solution of the apparently new
questions arising out of the various relations which
advance in civilization is creating, and In Judg-
ing of those reforms ofthe law which are IN progress
,Af tta cd N
the civil law will be appreciated as it comes to be
understood. II cannot be otherwise with system
of written 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 a
large portion Of that of England and the United
States.
Il 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.
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 on that subject. have
no doubt that in Louisiana, in Texas, in Califor-
MA and in the new Territories OF the ULted 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
prising house will find its 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 rssPecti EIyyy your
obedient servant GEORGE EUSIlS.
Messrs. LITTLE BRowN.
FROM ALFRED HENNEN, ESQ, OF THE
NEW ORLEANS BAR.
BosToN, SEPT. 6, 1850.
Messrs LITTLE & BRowN Gentlemen-I am
much pleased to learn that you are engaged In
publishing a revised edition of Strahan's transla-
ton of DOMAT ON CIVIL LAW. No work IN
compared with it, for the fullness and correctness
of the doctrine conveyed throughout it.
Trom the time of it's publication, up to the pre-
sent, it has received the appreciation of the most
learned men and lawyers in every country, and
very deservedly. The compilcr5 OF the Code Ma
poleon drew copiously from 1T for their work Ma
poeon 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 IL
brary of every American lawyer.
Your obedient servant, ALFRED HENNEN.
REPORTS OF CASES argued and determined in
the Circuit Court Of the United States for the fret
circuit from 1912 to l65i, as follows:
GALLISON'S REPORTS. Reports of Cases ar
gued and determined in the Circuit Court Of the
United States, for the first Circuit, from 1872 &c
1915. Second edition. with additional Notes ano
References. vols. Svo. Boston, 1885.
81 should omit doing justice to my own feelings
as well as to the cause of truth, if were not to Sc
lect the decisions in Collisions and Mason's Re
ports as specimens OF pre-emincnt merit. They
NAV fairly be placed upon a level with the bes
productions oftbe English Admiralty, for deep ano
accurate learning well as for the highest ability
and wisdom in decision. % Kent, 20; (2) 527.
MASON (wiliam P) REPORTS OF CASES
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 the First Circuit of the United
States, and follow in order after MIR. Gallison',
Reports The Decisions relate to great variety
of MISREPRESENTATION Admiralty, Personal
and Real Law, and Chancery, and are character
iezd by the profound learning, acuteness, anC
thoroughness OF research, which are such eminen
traits Of their author. They will bear favorable
comparison in point of learning and practica
utility, with the beet volumes of the English Re
ports"
SUMMERS REPORTS. Sumner (Charles.,
Reports of Cases argued and determined in th'
Circuit Court of the United States for the Fret Cir
cult. 3 vols. Svo.
'These volumes contain the decisions Of Mr.
Justice Story, and form a continuation TO the sc
ries of Gallison and Mason. The decisions in thu