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BOSTON.
TINTED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE.
u VOLUMEIX. Will be published on the lst of
April. next "Thc Statutes at Large and Treaties
Of the United States of America, Volume TX"
COMPRISING all the legislation OF the Congress OF
the United States from 1886 to 1891 inclusive;
royal 8 vo., about 100 pages. Price $3.50, in
This volume ia Continuation of the Statutes at
Large in vols, published by authority OF Con-
gress in lo45-6.
UNITED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE, in
cluding those of the 3lst Congress, prepared under
order of the Senate, and to be published agreea
bly, to a resolve Of that honorable body Royal vo
This Index will refer, under copious titles, to
each law and every joint and Senate and House
resolve, public private, which has been passed
or adopted under the Federal Constitution, so that
the reader may see at glance the whole law on
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JUSTPUBLISHED, DOMAT (NI. } CIVIL LAW
INTTS NATURAL ORDER. translated into English
by VIM. Strahan, LID, Advocate in Doctors
Commons. Edited, from the second London Edi
ton, by Hon. LUTHER s. GUSHING, late one OF
the Judges in the Court Of Common Pleas; now Lee
turer Civil and Parliamentary Law in Harvard
University. In 2 vols. Royal Svo
Among the writer's on the Roman Law whose
works are best known to English and American
lawyers, and which have exerted the most infu-
ence upon our jurisprudence, is DoMAT, "whose
work, entitled The CiUiI Lato IN its Natural Or
DER" says Judge Story, preface to Bailments,)
which it was written, is truly wonderful per-
| formancc. His method ia excellent, and his mat
| ter clear, exact, and comprehensive"
The object of the author, in this learned produc-
| ton was TO dsembarrass those OF the principles
and provisions of the Roman law, which are of gen
eral interest and application, from the tcchnica-
| ties of the system, and, by presenting them in
natural and scientific method, to render them more
Ineligible, and their attainment more useful and
agreeable; and, though the work was particularly
| intended for and adapted to the French jurispru-
dcnce of the age, it is not less applicable to every
system of law, IF which the Roman code ia either
| a part, or in which it is recognised as body of
written reason. Besides the general claims which
Me work thus possesses to the attention OF the Ame
r.can 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 q 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
FROM HON. JUDGE EUsTIs, CHIEF JUSTICE
OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
BRooKLINE, 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
| large and inconvenient-and its scarcity and high
price prevented it's general use in this country The
present publication, from it's FORM its style Of
cution, and moderate price, Think, cannot fail in
| remunerating 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 solution of the apparently new
questions arising out of the various relations which
our advance in civilization is creating and in judg
ing Of those reforms the law which in progress
III k.ka.
the civil law will be appreciated it comes to be
understood. II cannot be otherwise with a system
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 a
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 English treatises on that subject. have
no doubt that in louisiana in Texas, in Califor-
na and in the Territories Of the United States,
rs well as 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 it's interest in publishing,
from time to time, in the English language, such
ether standard works as will form the basis of a
l remain, gentlemen, very respectfully, your
obedient servant, GEORGE EUSTlS.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN.
FROM ALFRED HENNEN, ESQ, OF THE
/ NEW ORLEANS BAR.
BosroN, SEPT. 6, 1850.
Messrs LITTLE & BRowN: Gcntlemen-I am
much pleased to learn that you are engaged in
publishing a revised edition Of Strahan's transla-
lion Of DOMAT ON CIVIL LAW. No work in
the English language, the same subject, is to be
compared with it, for the funess and correctness
Of the doctrine conveyed throughout it,
FROM the time of its publication, up to the pre-
esnt, 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 copiously from it for their work. Ma
poleon 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 IL
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 ar
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 2 vols. 8vo. Boston, 1886.
~ should omit doing justice to my own feelings,
well as to the cause of truth, if were not to
lect the decisions in Collisions and Mason's Re-
ports specimens Of pre-eminent merit. They
| NAV fairly be placed upon a level with the hest