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Anril. next. 1.-The Statutes at Large and Treaties
Of the United States Of America, Volume iA,
COMPRISING all the legislation OF the congress OF
the United States from 1876 10 1851 inclustve;
royal vo., about 100 pages. Price $3.50, in
superior law binding.
This volume is a continuation of the Statutes at
Large in vols, published by authority of Con-
gress in 1866,
"A COMPLETE SYNOPTICAL INDEX TO THE
United STATES STATUTES AT LARGE, in
GLIDING those of the sIst Congress, prepared under
an order of the Senate, and To be published agreea
bly, to a resolve of that honorable body Royal svo.
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, that
the reader may see at glance the whole law on
any single subject.
JUsTPUBLIsHED, DOMAT (M. CIVIL LAW
INITS NATURAL ORDER, translated into English
Commons Edited from tho 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 writers on the Koran Law whose
works are best known to English and American
lawyers, and which hive exerted the most influ-
ence upon our Jurisprudence, ia DoMAr, "whose
work, entitled The Grid LasD in its Natural Or
dr," soys Judge Story, preface to Baiments,)
"co,isidering the age and the circumstances in
which 1t was written, 10 a 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 disembarrass those of the principles
and provisions Of the Roman law, which are of gen.
eral interest and application, from the TECHNICAL
ties of the system, and, by presenting them in
natural and scientific method, to render them more
Ineligible, and their attainment moro useful and
agreeable; and, though Che work was particularly
intended for and adapted to the French jurispru-
dence Of the age, it Is not less applicable to every
system of law, IF which the Roman code is either
part, or in which it is recognised body of
written reason Besides the general claims which
he work thus possesses to the attention Of the Anne
rcan lawyer, Domat has peculiar interest in those
of the States, whose legal Institutions, derived
in part from those of France 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, CHIEF JUSTICE.
OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
BRookLINE, Der. IL, 1880
GEHTLEMEN: have examined the sheets of the
translation Of the admirable work Of p1mat on the
Civil Law, which you have been kind enough to
send me. You viii have rendered great service
TO the science of law oy the publication. The form
oI the Engl,sn edition Of the translation was too
large lad inconvenient-and its scarcity and high
price prevented its general use in this country The
present publication, from its form, its style of
rsmunerating you. The translation by Mr.. Stra-
han 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
advanccin civilization is creating, and in judg
ing 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 it comes to be
understood II cannot be otherwise with q 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
large portion of that of England and the United
States.
1t would bo 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 treatises that subject. have
doubt that in Louisiana, in Texas in Califor-
nia and in the new Territories Of the United States
well as in Lower Canada, there will be ready
demand for your publication. The profession
throughout tho 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 languag &C, such
other standard works as will form the basis of a
oa remain gsnemsn nTssspss sIr your
Messrs LITTLE BRowN.
FROM ALFRED HENNEN, ESQ.,, OF THE
NEW ORLEANS BAR
BosToS, SEPT. 6, 1850.
Mcssrs. LITTLE s. BRowN: Gentlemen am
much pleased to learn that you engaged in
publishing a revised edition Of strahan's transla-
ton of DOMAT ON CIVIL LAW. No work in
compared with it, for the iullness and correctness
ofthc doctrine conveyed throughout it.
FROM the time of its 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 compilcrs Of the Code Ma
poleon drew copiously from it for their work Ma
polcon himself studied it most carefully in early
life, which may account for the singular acueness
and wisdom OF his observations and decisions, dur
ing the discussions tho adoption of his code.
Domat should, and hope will be, found in the Ii
Your obedient servant, ALFRED HENNEN.
REPORTS OF CASES argued and determined in
the Circuit Court of the United States for the first
circuit from 1912 TO 1851, 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 1912 to
ISl5 Second edition, with additional Notes and
References. vols. Svo. Boston, 1895.
81 should omit doing justice to my own feelings,
as well as to the cause OF truth, il were not TO
lect the decisions in Collisions and Masons Re-
ports as specimens of prc-eminent merit. They
may airly be placed upon level with the best
PRODUCTIONS of the English Admiralty, for deep and
accurate learning, well as for the highest ability
aud wisdom in decision. % Kent, 20; ~ SGT.
MASON (Wiliam P.) REPORTS OF CASES
in the Circuit Court of the United States for the
First Circuit, from 1916 TO 1880. S vols. Svo.
"These Reports comprise the Decisions of Mr..
Justice Story the First Circuit of the United
States and follow in order after Mr.. Collisions
Reports. The Decisions relate to great variety
OF Observation-Disclosures Admiralty, Personal,
and Real Law, and Chancery, and are character
iczd by the profound learning. acuteness, and
thoroughness of research, which are such eminent
t,l;ts Of their author They will bear favorable
comparison, in point of learning and practical
utility, with the best volumes oil the English Re
ports"
SUMMERS REPORTS. Sumner (Chares)
Reports of Cases argued and determined in the
Circuit Court Of the United States for the First Cir
cult. vols. Svo.
''These volumes contain the decisions of MIR.
Justce Story, and form continuation to the
ries of Gallison and Mason. The decisions in the
present volumes relate particularly to questions of
Equity and Admiralty, and are OF great practical
value"
S1ORY'S REPORTS. Story civilian W.
Reports of Cascs argued and determined in the