The republic., 1851-03-18
BOOKS PUBLIsHED AND IN PRESS ny
CHARLES 6. LITTLE & JAMES BROWN,

BOOKS PUBLl0HED AND IN FAAoo nh
CHARLES 9. LITTLE q 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"
comprising all the legislation of the Congress of
the United States from 1916 to 1851 inclusive;
royal vo., about 100 pages. Price $3.50, in
superior law binding.
This volume is u continuation of the Statutes at
Large in vols, published by authority Of Con-
gress in 1906.
,ACOMPLETE SYNOPTICAL INDEX TO THE
UNITED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE, in
cludng those of the 3lst Congress, prepared under
order of the Senate, and to be published agreea-
bly, to 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, 80 that
the reader may at glance the whole law on
any single subject.
JUST PU BLISHED, DOMAT (M. CIVIL LAW
IN IT'S NATURAL ORDER, translatedinto English
by VIM. Strahan LID, Advocate in Doctors
Commons Edited, from the second London Edi
ton. by Hon. LUTHER S. CUSHING, late one Of
the Judgeein the Court of Common Pleas; now Lee
turer on Civil and Parliamentary Law in Harvard
University. In 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 intiu-
enco upon our jurisprudence, is DoMAr, "whese
work, entitled The Cipit LaW in its Natural Or
DER" says Judge Story, preface to Bailments,)
''consdering the age and the circumstances in
which il was written, is truly wonderful per-
formance. His method ia excellent, and his mat
ter clear, exact, and comprehensive"
The object of the author, in this learned produc-
tion, was to disembarrass those oil 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 a
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-
dcnee Of the age it is not less applicable to every
system of law, Of which the Roman code ia either
part, or in which it is recognised body of
written reason. Besides the general claims which
he work thus 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 thus
founded in the Roman law.
These reasons have induced belief on the part
of the publishers that modern edition of this oele
brated work would be acceptable to the profession,
and have led them to engage in republication of
the English translation of it by DIR. Strahan.
FROM HON. JUDGE EUsTIs, CHIEF JUSTICE
OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
BRooxLINE, Ocr. 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
large and inconvenient-and its scarcity and high
price prevented its general use in this country The
present publication, from its form, its style of
cution, and moderate price, Think, cannot fail in
renunerating you. The translation by Mr.. Stra-
nan has been tested; it s in the main correct, but
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
advance in civilization is creating and in judg
ing Of those reforms law which in progress
in different parts of the United States, the value Of
the civil law will be appreciated it comes to be
understood. 1t cannot be otherwise with a system
of written which for centuries governed the
most wonderful social organization that the world
has witnessed, and which ia 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 usecss, 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 Il 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 new Territories OF the United States
as 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 its interest in publishing,
from time to time, in the English language, such
ether standard works as will form the basis Of a
civil law library.
I remain, gentlemen, very respectfully, your
obedient servant, GEORGE EUSTlS.
Messrs. LITTLE s. BRowN.
| FROM ALFRED HENNEN, ESQ., OF THE
NEW ORLEANS BAR.
BosroN, SEPT. 6, 1850.
Messrs. LITTLE BIowN: Gentlemen-I am
much pleased to learn that you engaged in
publishing revised edition Of Strahan's transla-
tion Of DOMAT ON CIVIL LAW. No work in
the glish language, the same subject, is to be
compared with it, for the fulness and correctness
ofthc doctrine conveyed throughout it.
Nrom 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 deservedy. 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 acutcness
and wisdom of his observations and decisions, dur
ing the discussions the adoption of his code