The republic., 1851-01-01
j IN PRESS by
3UAmES BROWN,

x,S STx7UTEs AT LARGE,
okOME TX. Will bsjpublished on me lst a;sa .,
April, next, "The statotesAst Large vanme ahu M
of the United States of America, volume
the United States from lss6 to 1851 inciosivs
royal vo., about 100 pages rrice S'-oo' "
%is yaI,,na T. Continuation of the Statutes at
Large in 8 vols, published by authority OF Con-
gress in 1856.
COMP4ETE sYNoPrICAL INDEX 70 The
UNITED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE, IN
Guiding those Of the slst prepared under
an order Of the Senate sSos0 be published agreea'
bly TO a resolve ofthat honorable body. Royal 8 vo
This Index will refer under copious titles, To
each law apd every Joint and Senate and House
resolve public private, which mas been passed
or adopted under the Federal Constitution, 80 that
the reader may see at glance tne whoie Ia" on
any single subject.
lust PUBLISHED, DOMAT On. } CIVIL LAW
INTTs NATURAL ORDER. translated into English
by VIM. Strshan, Ii. D., Advocate in Doctors
Commons. Edited, from the second London Ed
ton, by Hon. LUTHEk.s. CUSHING late one OF
she Judges IN the Co6rtof Common Pleas; now Lee
turer on Civil and Parliamentary Law In Harvard
Universify. In vop. Royal syo
Among the wriGs on tne no,han Law vs;Sa, @noss
1. lawyers, am which have exerted the most lnHu-
enca upon our Jurisprudence. is DoMAr, whose
work entitled Ihe tipii LaU tn ITS Natural Or
l <fTFa>savE Judge story, preface to Bailments,)
s.consaering the age and the circumstances in
which Il was written, is truly wonderful per-
formance dis method lie excellent and his mat
ter clear exact and comprehensive"
The object OF the aut thor, in this learned produc
ton was 10 disembarrass those Of the principles
and pfpvisions of the Roman law, which are OF gen
eral bterest and application, from the technicaii-
ties of the system, and, by presenting them IN a
natural and scientific method, TO render them more
intelIigibe, and their attainment more useful and
agreeable; and, though the work was particularly
intended for and adapted to the French jurispru-
lence bf the age it is not lees applicable to every
of law, Of which the Roman code is either
or in which it is recognised as body of
10 reason Besides the general claims which
rk thus possesses to the attention of the Ame-
Wyer Domat has peculiar interest in those
ttates, whose legal institutions are derived
from those Of France or Spain, and are thus
in the Roman law.
e reasons have induced belief on the part
publishers that modern edition of this celc-
work would be acceptable to- the profession,
ave led them to engage in republication OF
Tlish translation of it by DR.. Strahan
HON JUDGE EUsTIs, CHIEF JUSTICE
',QF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
BRooKLINE Der IL, 1850.
tENEN have examined the sheets of the
On Of the admirable work Of Domat on the
", which you have been kind enough to
You win have rendered great service
ence of law by the publication. The form
English edition OF the translation was too
nconvenient-and its scarcity and high
rented it's general use in this country. The
bbIication, from its form, its style Of exc
nd moderate price, think, cannot fail in
U0 0krng you. The translation by MIR. Stra-
las been tested it is in the main correct, but
be improved under the revision Of the editor,
Ee Cushing.
searching for a solution of the apparently new
questions arising out of the various relations which
our advance in civilization ia creating, and In Judg
ing of those reforms the law which are In progress
in different parts of the United States the value OF
the civil law will be appreciated as 1t comes to be
understood. 1t cannot be otherwise with system
of written which for centuries governed the
most wonderful social organization that the world
has ever Witnessed and which IL the real basis OF
the Jurisprudence of continental Europe, and of
lAese portion of that of England and the United
States.
II would be quite useless for me to speak OF the
merits of the great work which your enterprise ls
about to give to the American public. From the
isolated position which The civil law has been per
niitted to occupy in England, few of the standard
orks concerning it have been translated into Eng
hsh, and this want has not been supplied by the
original En- glish treatises that subject. have
no doubt that in louisiana, in Texas in Califor-
MA and the new Territories Of the III tied States
well as in Lower Canada, there will be ready
demand for your publication. The profession
throughout the Union will readily lend their favor
pricing house will find its interest in Publishing,
from time to time, in the EngTsn language, such
other standard works as will form the basis of a
civil law library.
remain, gentlemen, very respectfully, your
obedient servant, GEORGE EUSIlS.
Messrs. LITTLE BRowN.