The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-06-21

pages closely printed octave the best paper, and
in clear fair type and will contain table Of cases,
and full table of contents, thus forming a COM
plete volume by ITSELF as well as part of an en-
tire series. Every alternate second number will
be PACED consecutively from the number imme-
dately preceding ana will contain table Of cases.
volume, ready for binding, of over sir hundred pages
In each volume the Of the several courts will
be found arranged together, and, in point of style
and typographical execution, this series will be
fully equal to the best reports of England or this
country.
Its designed to make this PERMANENT PUBL
CATION and thus establish msso Series of English
Law and Equity Reports, which shall, in all re-
spects, be far in advance of any other reprint Of
English Reports in this country, and which shall
furnish to the American lawyer the decisions Of
Westminster Hall, nearly tir0 years before they
could oteytosc be obtained and long before the pub
LEGATION of the contemporaneous decisions Of most
of our own tribunals
The price of this publication will be $40 for
twelve numbers payable in advance, or for the six
volumes, handsomely aid uniformly bound in law
sheep, $l2
The parts Will be sold separately, if desired, at
s each.
Single volume, bound, 50 25.
Parts L. and III, stitched, or Vol. L., bound in law
sheep, containing reports of one hundred and
eighty eight cases, now ready for delivery.
The following are among the opinions of this
work expressed on the publication Of the first num-
per:
Letter from Hon. N1illard Fillmore, President Of the
United Sfdtes.
WAsHINaroN, April 10, 1851.
JAMEs BaowN, ESQ.,: MY DEAR SIR-Some days
since received, by the hand of the Postmaster
General, the fret number of the English Reports,
which you propose to republish In this country,
comprising every case reported in England; and
now have your letter of the 9th instant inquiring
my opinion Of the enterprise.
While pursuing my profession, took deep in
forest in publications Of this kind. The able
judges who have adorned the judicial tribunals of
England, have shed a lustre upon the Common
Law, and illumined its profoundest depths. ICON
slider no law library complete that does not contain
their principal reports in Law and Equity, and in
their Ecclesiastical Courts, and in Admiralty. For
some years had been in tho habit of receiving
these in . condensed" form. This condemnation.
however consisted, not in an abbreviation of each
case, but selection from the several cases. and
was often annoyed by finding a reference to cases
in the Digests, which deemed very important,
wholly omitted in the "c0ndensed reports"
therefore hailed with great pleasure effort which
was made some time since to republish the whole.
If the English Reports entire, can be republished
with despatch in this country, at price 80 low
to bring them within the reach OF the members Of
the bar generally, conceive that it will confer
great benefit upon the profession and the judiciary,
and consequently upon the country at large. Know
ing your enterprise, anticipate your snccess, and
l can only express the hope that your reward may
servant Sc amt : '0N WILLARD FILLMORE.
r'o" voc Ne" A"" A'ss'o'y ""so'
Messrs Little Brown, of Boston. whose law
books in point of typographical execution, vie
with the best similar issues OF the English press,
and in point of value and importance are inferior
to none in this country, have just commenced the
publication OF legal scrics deserving the especial
attention of the profession throughout the country
The basis of this series, of which the first num-
Der is before US, the LG,o Journal Reports and
the JtTist two English serials which communicate
to the British Bar, within few weeks after their
delivery, the prominent decisions of all the courts,
from the House of Lords to the Court of Bankrupt
cy, and other tribunals of limited but practically
important Jurisdiction. This excellent arrange
ment might be followed with great advantagein this
country, for the purpose Of obviating the delay
which necessarily attends the issuing OF the regu
lar volumes OF reports of particular courts and
are glad to see the enterprise Of our legal pub
fishers awaiting themselves ofit to introduce the
English Reports promptly and regularly to the pro-
fession. The authority of Westminster Hall has lost
nothing of'its sanction and the permanently high
character OF the English judiciary gives to their
adjudicatons continued weight and decisive in
huence with our courts Hitherto the difficulty has
been that the reported cases there have grown old
before they could be quoted and applied here, and
| there was no way in which the current jurispru-
dence and adjudications of the day in the English
| courts could be made available by the American
bar, except at great expense and by continual vigil
lance. This difficulty Mcssrs. Little & Browns
| Reports will remove; the cases decided in the
| Queens Bench, the Common Pleas, and the Ex-
chequer Chamber in january, will be ready for de.
hvery nete IN APT. o. way, long oelose ao]uogeo
the regular reports in which thew are perpetuated
Nearly two wears will thus be .over TIE pre-
sent system which requires DELAY until the large
volume of authorized reports is published on the
other side and has then been reprinted on this
| One advantage of the present series is that the
decisions which it gives are those of courts in banc
the deliberate judgments of the bench. and not the
| less reliable decisions. at Ni,i Prius which how
ever interesting in many instances, do not carry
| with them the same authority and force.
| The Reports are edited BY E. II. Bennett and
Chauncy Smith, csqs. of the Boston bar, and theil
systematic arrangement, and the care with which
the notes, index, &C., are prepared, evidence thu
thorough manner in which the proposed series vii
be carried out.
In this connexion we take pleasure in advertine
to Messrs Little and Browns other legal publica
tons, among which are included many of thaSnos
conspicuous ana authoritative trcatises OF our uris
prudence; Juoge Storys works, ior nlng nDrar}
almost OF themselves, and famiiiar for their higt
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