The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-03-03
hooks puBLIsHED AND IN PRESS By
CHARLES C. LITTLE & JAMES BROWN,

BOOKS PUBLIsHED AMI IN TNnSo -
CHARLES c. LITTLE & JAMES BROWN,
| BOSTON.
TINTED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE.
/ u VOLUMEIX Will be published on the LIST Of
| April next, 1.-THE Statutes at Large and Treaties
| Of the United States of America, Volume TX,
comprisiue all the legislation Of the Congress Of
| the United States from 1916 to 1851 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-
gress in lS45-6-
"A COMPLETE SYNOPTICAL INDEX TO THE
UNITED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE, in
GLIDING those of the 3st Congress, prepared under
order Of the Senate, and to be published agreca-
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
or 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
IN ITS NATURAL ORDER, translatedinto English
by WIN. Strahan, LID, Advocate in Doctors
Commons. Edited. from the second London Edi-
ton, by Hon. LUTHER s. CUSHING, late one Of
the ges in the Court of Common Pleas; now Lee
turer on Civil and Parliamentary Law in Harvard
University. In vols. Royal Syo.
Among the writer's on the Roman Law whose
works are best known to English and American
lawyers, and which have excrted the most iniiu-
ence upon Jurisprudence, ia DomAT, "whose
work, entitled The Civil Lato in its Natural Or
DER" says Judge Story, preface to Bailments,)
considering the age and the circumstances in
which il was written, is truly wonderful per-
(ormancc. 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
era 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 jurispru-
dence 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 il is recognised as a body OF
written reason. Besides the general claims which
Me work thus possesses to the attention OF the Anne
rcan lawyer Domat has peculiar interest in those
of the States whose legal institutions are derived
in part from those of France or 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 cee-
bratcd 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.
BRooKLINE, OcT. 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 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 inconvenient-and its scarcity and high
price prevented its general use in this country. The
present publication, from ts form, its style OF exc
cution, and moderate price, Think cannot fail in
rcmunerating you. The translation by MIR. Strn
has been tested il is in the main correct, but
will be improved under the revision Of tho editor,
Judge Cushing.
In searching for a solution Of the apparently new
questions arising out Of the various relations which
advance in civilization ia creating, and in judg
ing of those reforms ofthe law which are in progress
in different parts of the United States, thevaue of
the civil law will be appreciated as it comes to be
Of written reasons which for centuries governed the
most wonderful social organization that the world
has witnessed, and which 10 the real basis OF
the jurisprudence Of continental Europe. and Of n
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-
Inittcd 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 United States
rs 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
prising house will find it's interest in publishing,
other standard works will form the basis of a
civil law library.
| remain, gentlemen, very respectfully, your
| obedient servant, GEORGE EUSIlS. j
Mcssrs LITTLE & BRowN.
|