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written reason Besides the general claims which
the work thus possesses to the attention of the Anne
rcan lawyer Donat has peculiar INTEREST," In those
of the States, whose legal institutions are derived
in part from those of France Spain, and thus
founded in the Roman law.
These reasons have induced a 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 it by Dr. Strahan
FROM HON. JUDGE EUsTIs, CHIEF JUSTICE
OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
BRooKLISE, 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 win 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 inconvenent-and its scarcity and high
price prevented its general use in this country The
present publication, from its form, is style Of exc
cution, and moderate price, think, cannot fail in
remuneratng you. The translation by Mr.. Stra-
han has been tested; 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 thevarious relations which
advance in civilization is creating, and in judg
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 II cannot be otherwise with a system
of written which for centuries governed the
most wonderful social organization that the world
has witnessed, and which ID 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 En- glish treatises that subject. have
no doubt that in Louisiana, in Texas, in Califor-
MIA, and in the Territories of the United States
as we'll as in Lower Canada, there will be ready
demand for your publication. The profession
throu ghout the Union will readily lend their favor
10 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 as will form the basis of
civil law library.
i remain, gentlemen, very respectfully, your
obedlent servant, GEORGE EUSTIS.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN.
FROM ALFRED HENNEN, ESQ, OF THE
NEW ORLEANS BAR.
BosToN, SEPT 8, 1850.
Messrs LITTLE & BRowN Gentlemen-I am
much pleased to learn that you engaged in
publishing revised edition of Strahans transa-
ton of DOMAT ON CIVIL LAW. No work in
the English language, the same subject, is to be
compared with It, for the fullness and correctness
OF the doctrine conveyed throughout it.
Erom the time Of its publication, up to the pre-
cent it has received the appreciation of the most
learned men and lawyers in every country, and
very deservedly. The compilers of the Code Ma
poleon drew copou5ly from IL Tor 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 Ii
brary of every American lawyer.
Your obedient servant, ALFRED HENNEN.
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