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CHARLEsC. LITTLE d JAMES BROWN,
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TTNITED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE,
u VOLUMEIX. Will be published on the LIST OF
April next "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 lo46 to 1901 ine'aSi'ei
royal vo., about HOO pages. Price $3-5o, In
rhis volume is a Confirmation of the Statutes at
Large in vols, published by authority OF Con-
gress In lS45-6
,AC COMPLETE sYNOPTlCAL INDEX TO THE
limited STATES STATUTES AT LARGE, in
Guiding those of the 3st Congress. prepared under
an order of the Senate and to be published agreea-
bly, to resolve of that honorable body Royal s 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
or adopted under the Federal Constitution, SO that
the reader may SEQ at a glance the whole law on
any single subject.
JUST PUBLISHED, DOMAT (N1. } CIVIL Law
by VIM. Strahan, LID, Advocate in Doctors
Commons Edited, from the second London Edi
ton, by Hon. LUTHER s. CUSHING, late one OF
the Judgesin the Court OF Common riea:, now Leo
turer on Civil and Parliamentary Law III harvard
University. In vols. Royal Svo-
Among the writers ON the Roman Law whose
works are best known to English and American
LAWYERS and which have exerted the most infiu-
ence upon our Jurisprudence, is DoMAT, "whose
work entitled The CiciI Lasg IN its Natural Or
DER" says Judge Story, preface to Baiiments, y
considering the age and the circumstances in
which il was written, is 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-
tion, was to disembarrass those OF the principles
and provisions of the Roman law, which are of gem
era interest and application. from the technicai-
ties Of the system, and, by presenting them in n
natural and scientific method, to render them more
NJ. - - -. al ovx1
agreeable; and, though the 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, Of which the Roman code Is either
a part, or in which il is recognised as body OF
written reason. Besides the general claims which
the work thus to the attention of the Ame
r.can lawyer Domat has peculiar In those
of the Sates whose legal institutions are derived
in part from those of France or Spaln and are thus
:ounded 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 acceps BILE 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, OCr. IL, 1850.
GEsrLEMEN: have examined the sheets of the
translation of the admirable work OF Domat on the
Civil Law, which you have been kind enough tc
send me. You will have rendered great service
to the science of law by the publication. The form
oI the English edition OF the translation was toe
lar ee and inconvenient-and its scarcity and higt
price prevented its general use in this country Tht
present publication, from its form, its style Of exc
cutiun, and moderate price, Think cannot fail IL
rsmunernting you. The translation by MIR. Stra
nan has been tested it is in the main correct, bu
will be improved under the revision Of the editor
Judge Cushing.
In searching for q 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
in different parts of the United States, the value o
the civil law will be appreciated as it comes to be
understood. 1t cannot be otherwise with system
of written reasons 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 q
large portion of that Of England and the United
States.
Il 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-
Initted 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-
MIA and in the Territories Of the UI lifted States
as we'll 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
prisng house will find its interest in publishing,
from time to time, in the English language, such
other standard works will form the basis of a
civil law library.
l remain, gentlemen, very resPectiHlly. your
obedient servant, GEORGE EUSTIS.
Messrs. LITTLE BRowN.