The republic., 1851-03-19
BOOKS PUBLISHED AND IN PRESS BY
CHARLES G. LITTLE & JAMES BROWN,

BOOKS PUBLISHED AND I'm PRESS BY
CHARLES c. LITTLE & JAMES BROWN,
BOSTON.
TINTED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE,
u VOLUMEIX. Will be published on the lst of
April, next, "The Statute. at Large and Treaties
Of the United States of America, Volume TX"
comprising all the legislation Of the Congress OF
the United States from lS46 to 1851 inclusive;
royal vo., about HOO 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 1856
,ACOMPLETE SYNOPTICAL INDEX TO THE
UNITED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE, in
Guiding those of the 3Ist Congress, prepared under
order of the Senate. and to be published agreea-
bly, to 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 a glance the whole law on
any single subject.
JUsTPUBLIsHED. DOMAT (M. CIVIL LAW
IN ITS NATURAL ORDER, translatedinto English
by VIM. Strahan, LII. D., Advocate in Doctors
Commons Edited, from the second London Edi
ton, by Hon. LUTHER s. CUSHING, late one Of
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 best known to English and American
lawyers, and which have exerted the most infiu-
work. entitled The Ciuil Lato in its Natural Or
DER" says Judge Story, preface to Bailments,)
"considerng the age and the circumstances in
which it was written, is 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.
cral interest and application from the technical-
ties of the system, and, by presenting them in a
natural and scientific method. to render them more
Ineligible, and their attainment more useful and
agreeable; and, though che work was particularly
intended for and adapted to the French jurispru-
dcnce of the age, it 10 not less applicable to every
system of law, of which the Roman code is either
written reason. Besides the general claims which
e work thus possesses to the attention of the Ame
r.can lawyer Domat has peculiar interest in those
of the States whose legal institutions are derived
in part from those of France 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 Cec
brated work would be acceptable to the profession
and have led them to engage in a republication of
the English translation of 1t by DIR. Strahan.
FROM HON. JUDGE EUSTIS, CHIEF JUSTICE
OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
BRooxLINE, Ocr. III, 1850
GENTLEMEN: have examined the sheets of the
translation Of the admirable work of Domat 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 inconvenent-and its scarcity and high
price prevented its general use in this country. The
present publication, from ts form it's style OF exc
cution, and moderate price, Think cannot fail in
remunerating you The translation by Mr.. Stra-
nan 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
our advance in civilization is creating, and in judg
A. L..
in different parts of the United States the value OF
the civil law will be appreciated as it comes to be
understood. 1t cannot be otherwise with system
of written which for centuries governed the
most wonderful social organization that the world
has 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.
II 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 1t 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
MIA and in the Territories of the UIited States
as we'll 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, respectfully, your
| obcdient servant, GEORGE EUSTlS.
! Messrs. LITTLE BRowN.
FROM ALFRED HENNEN, ESQ.,, OF THE
| NEW ORLEANS BAR.
| BosroN, SEPT. 6, 1850.
| Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN: Gentlemen-I am
much pleased to learn that you are engaged in
publishing revised edition Of Strahan's transla-
| lion Of DOMAT ON CIVIL LAW No work in
the English language, on the same subject, is to be
compared with ii, for the fulness and correctness
| of the doctrine conveyed throughout it,
Erom 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 deservcdly. The compilers Of the Code Ma
poleon drew copioualy from it for their work. Ma
poleon himself studied it most carefully in early
life, which may account for the singular acutenesa
and wisdom of his observations and decisions, dur
| ing the discussions on the adoption Of his CODE
Dornat should, and hope will be, found in the Ii
| 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 first
circuit from 1912 to 1851. as follows:
GALLISON'S REPORTS. Reports of Cases :
| gued and determined in the Circuit Court Of the
United States, for the first Circuit, from 1912 to
| 1915. Second edition, with additional Notes and
References. vols. Svo. Boston, 1885.
| 81 should omit doing justice to my own feelings,
we'll as to the cause of truth, If were not to
| lect the decisions in Galison's and Mason's Re-
ports specimens of pre-eminent merit. They
| may fairly be placed upon level with the best
| productions ofthe English Admiralty, for deep and
accurate learning, well as for the highest ability
| and wisdom in decision. ."-3 Kent, 20; (2) 527.
in the Circuit Court of the United States for the
| First Circuit from 1916 to 1880. vols. Svo.
"These Reports comprise the Decisions of Mr.
Justice Story the First Circuit Of the United
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