The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-02-13
BOOKS PUBLISHED AND IN PRESS BY
CHARLES C. LITTLE s. JAMES BROWN,

CHARLES C. LITTLE s. JAMES BROWN,
BOSTON.
TINTED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE,
u VOLUMEIX Will be published ON the lst OF
April next "The Statutes at Large and treaties
of the United States of America, Volume IL,
COMPRISING all the Legislation OF the congress OF
the United States from 1916 TO 1901 inclusive; |
royal yo., 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-
gross in 1850.
"a COMPLETE sYNOPTICAL INDEX To THE
UNITED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE, in
Guiding those of the 3lst Congress, prepared under
an 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 or private, which has been passed
adopted under the Federal Constitution, SO that
the reader may see at glance the whole law on
any single subject.
JUSTPUBLISHED, DOMAT (M) CIVIL LAW
INITS NATURAL ORDER, translatedinto English
by VIM. Strahan, Ii 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 III Harvard
University. In vols. Royal Syo.
Among the writer's on the Roman Law whose
works are best known 10 English and American
lawyers, and which have exered the most intiu-
ence upon Jurisprudence, is DoMAT, "whosc
work, entitled The Ciuii Ldic IN its Natural Or
der" says Judge Story, preface TO Bailments,)
considering 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 dsembarrass those OF the principles
and provisions Of the Roman law, which are of gen
eral interest and application, from the technicali-
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 Jur1spru-
81. =. tl,
system of law, Of which the Roman code i5 either
part or in which it is recognised as body of
written Besides the general claims which
the work thus possesses TO the attention OF the Anne
r.can lawyer, Domat has peculiar interest In those
of the States. whose legal institutions are derived
in part from those Of France or Spain, and arc thus
founded in the Roman law.
These reasons have induced belief the part
Of the publishers that modern edition of this cclc
bfated work would be acceptable to the profession,
and have led them to engage in q republication OF
the English translation of it by Dr. Strahan.
FROM HON JUDGE EUSTIs, CHIEF JUSTICE
OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
BnooKLINE, Der. IL, 1850.
GENrLEMEN: | 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 will have rendered a great service
to the science of law by the publication. The form
of the English edition of the translation was too
large and inconvenient-and its scarcity and high
price prevented general in this country The
present publication, from it's form, its style OF exc
cuton, and moderate price, Think, cannot fail in
remuncrating 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
questions arising out of the various relations which
advance in civilization is creating, and in judg
ingof those reforms ofthe law which in progress
in different parts of the United States the value of
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.
1t would be quite useless for me to speak of the
merits Of the great work which your enterprise is
about to give 10 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
li5h, 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-
MA and in the Territories of the United States,
well as in Lower Canada, there will be a ready
demand for your publication. The profession
throughout the Union will readily lend their favor
10 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
other standard works as will form the basis of
civil law library.
| remain, gentlemen, very respectfully, your
obedent servant, GEORGE EUSTIS.
Messrs. LITTLE s BRowN.
FROM ALFRED HENNEN, ESQ, OF THE
NEW ORLEANS BAR.
BosToN, SEPT. 6, 1850
Messrs LITTLE & BRowN: Gentlemen-I am
much pleased to learn that you engaged in
publishing revised edition of Strahan's transla
ton of DOMAT ON CIVIL LAW. No work in
the English language, on the same subject, is TO be
compared with it. for the fullness and correctness
oi the doctrine conveyed throughout it.
Trom the time of its publication, up TO the pre-
sent, it has received the appreciation of the
m LAWYERS nd
very deservedy. The compers of the Code Ma
poleon drew copiously from it for their work. Ma