The republic., 1851-09-09
It. s. j. w. JOHNSON

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Our cheap series of English Reports and Elemen-
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commended to your notice.
The cheapest and most valuable series of reprints
now before the public are the PHILADELPHIA
EDITIONS of the REG ULAR Series of the ENG
LISH COMMON LAW REPORTS, ENGLISH
EXCHEQUER REPORTS, and the LAW IL
BRARY.
The ENGLISH COMMON LAW REPORTS, in
62 volumes, contain, with few exceptions, ULL
REPRINT OF ALL THE CASES decided in the
Courts of KINGS BENCH, COMMON PLEAS,
and at Nis Prus, from 1913 to the present time;
printed by Adolphus & Ellis, Barnwall & Adolphus,
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numerous others. The English editions fill nearly
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the American series. Volume 40, and all those
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IN FULL, retaining the English folio, (by which
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Table Of Cases.
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Price per volume, A to 62, containing
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New volumes, as issued, containing about
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OF keeping up an acquaintance with the English
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ly commends itself, both account of the neat
ct1ate, and cheap manner in which it is furnished,
and the mine Of erceiIent Reports which it en-
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A GENERAL INDEX TO the first forty. seuen
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convenient and cheap, as q supersede the neces-
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The NEW ENGLISH EXCHEQ UER REPORTS
in 30 vols, and contain uerbatim reprint Of all
the Cases reported by Meeson and Welsby, in IT
vols, and by Welsby, Hurlsone, and Gordon,
present reporters, in 3vos. They derive increased
Value from the Notes and Referencesto american de-
cisions appended by Messrs. j. /. Clark Hare, and
Horace Binney Wallace, esqs., whose labors in
editing Smiths, the American, and Whites Equi-
ty, Leading Cases, have rendered them 80 popular
with the Profession The Io,1 price So so per vol
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the reach of every book-buyer. Their merit recon-
mends them to every lawyer.
Since the reorganization of the Courts of Exche-
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are ranked among the GO most learned and able Jl-
rists Of the Kingdom these decisions have assumed
a character inferior to of the English or Ameri
can Courts; and we find Younge s. Collyer, Nee
son & Welsby, Crompton, Meeson Roscoe, &C.,
&C., perhaps more constantly cited by late Ele
mentary Writers, and in the argued before
the other Courts, than any other English Reporters
similar opinion of their value and importance
being entertained by the leading Jurists of this
country, an American Edition cannot but be con-
sidered as highly desirable; and the subscribers
are issuing it at the very low price of two dollars
and a half for each English volume, containing
from 1000 to 200 octave pages, reprinted in full
in the best style of the day, with an entirely new
type, and bound in superior
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Reports, and their value to the Profession in this
country.
CAMBRIDGE, January 25, lS45.
Messrs. L. Il j. w. JOHNSON.
GENTLEMEN In reply to your letter, / can with
great sincerity say, that entertain a very high
opinion of the recent Exchequer Reports. In my
judgment they are not excelled by any contempt
raneous Reports in learning, ability, or general
utility and interest. The decided are dis
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common force. l scarcely know of any volumes
which deem of more importance or value for a
professional library. JOSEPH STORY.
CAMBRIDGE, January 25, Is45.
GENTLEMEN: Your letter of the oath has been re-
ceved, in which you ask my opinion as to the
value of the English Exchequer Reports, from Price
downwards to this time, to an American lawyer
and to the expediency of reprinting them in this
country. or the high value of these Reports, both
on the Pleas and Equity sides of the Court, have
not the least doubt the decisions of this Court for
the last fifteen or twenty years both at Equity and in
Common Law, being entitled to equal respect with
any others in England. | should think an Ameri-
car lawyers library essentially incomplete with
out them.
am, gentlemen, very respectfully, yours,
SIMON GREENLEAF.
Messrs. T. & j. w. JOHNSON
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