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CHARLH1 @. LITTLE 4 JAMES brown
BOSTON.
TINTED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE
u vOLUMEIx. Will be published on the ist o
April. next, "The Statutes at Large aud Treatie,
Of the United States Of America, volume IA,
COMPRISING all the legisation OF the Congress o
the United States from lSA6 to 1851 inclusive
royal vo., about llo0 pages. Price $3.50 II
This volume il q continuation OF the Statutes q
Large in 8 vols, published by authority of Con-
gress in 1856.
AcoMPLETE sYNoPTICAL INDEX TO THE
UNITED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE, in
cludng those Of the 3lst Congress, prepared under
an order of the Senate, and to be published agreea
bly, to resolve Of that honorable body. Royal 8 svo
This Index will refer, under copious titles, 70
each law, and every Joint and Senate and House
resolve, public or private. which hss been passed
or adopted under the Federal Constitution, 30 that
the reader may sec at . glance the whole Law on
any single subject.
JUsTPUBLdsHED. DOMAT (Ai.) CIVIL Law
INITSNATURALOR ORDER, translatedinto Engiish
by VIM. Strahan, LID, Advocate In Docso.:
Commons. Edited. from the second London kdi.
tion, by Hon. LUTHER 8. GUSHING, late one OF
the Judges in the Court Of Common Pleas; now Lee.
turcr on Civil and Parliamentary Law in harvard
University. In vols. Royal Svo.
Among the writer's ON the Roman Law whose
WOrk9 Dc6t known 70 Eu&Itou Auo AASoS tSaA
Iawyers, and which have excrted the most infiu-
work snSi oeOa entitled N. EsI Iss in IT, Nai~ai Or
der" Gays Judge Story. preface to Bailments,)
which it was written, IL truly wonderful per-
formance. His method 10 excellent. aud 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, ,Shch are Of gen.
era interest and application, from the technicai-
ties Of the sy.tem and. sy presenting them IN
intelIigible and their attainment moro useful and
agreesbls; and, though dc work was particularly
intended for and adapted 70 the French jurispru-
system % of law, Il which The Ronssn code is either
a part, or in which il y recognized as body Of
written reason Besides the general claims which
she work thus 70 the Attention OF tne Ame
Of the States whose legal Institutions are derived
in part from those of Franco or Spain, and are thus
founded in the Roman law.
These reasons have induced belief on the part
ofthc publishers that modern edition of this cele
brated work would be acceptable 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.
BRooKLIHE, Der. IL, 1880
GxNrIrnKr: / 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 inconvenent-and its scarcity and high
price preveuted its general use in this country The
present publication, from its form, s style Of exc
cution and moderate price, think, cannot fail in
remnnerating you. TIE transation by Mr. Stra-
nan has becn tested it il in the main correct. but
will be improved under the revision Of the editor,
Judge Cushing.
In searching for a solution of the apparently now
questions arisina out of the various relations which
ing of those ofthe law which are in progress
in different parts of the United States. the value 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 ever witnessed, and which is the real basis OF
the jurisprudence Of continental Europe. and of .
large portion Of that Of England and the United
States.
X would be quite useless Tor me to speak of the
merits Of the great work which your enterprise ID
about to give to the American public. From the
isolated position which the civil law has been per-
mittcd 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 Caiifor-
MIA and in the Territories Of the Ur tied States.
as 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 its interest in publishing,
other standard works as will form the basis OF q
civil law library. y3i
1 remain. gentlemen. very rsspectfuily: your
obcdient servant, w GkOAGE EUSIlS.
Messrs. LIrTLs II BRowN.
FROM ALFRED HENNEN, ESQ, OF THE
NEW ORLEANS BAR.
BosroN, SEPT. s, 1880.
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