The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-03-31
BOOKS PUBLISHED AND IN PRESS BY
CHARLES @. LITTLE 4 JAMES BROWN,

BOOKS PUBLIUAEO AND IN PRR0D BIZ
CHARLES G. LITTLE 4 JAMES BROWN,
BOSTON. ~ fti4stina -
rrN,rrD STATES STATUTES AT LARGE,
II VOLUMEIX. Will be published on the LIST Of
April next, ssThe 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 lS46 to 1851 inclusive;
royal vo., 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 1856. siElra
COMPLETE SYNOPTICAL INDEX TO THE
UNITED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE, in
GLIDING those Of the 3lst Congress, prepared under
an order of the Senate, and to be published agreen-
bly to a resolve of that honorable body Royal vo.
This Index will refer, under copioos 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 a glance the whole law ON
any single subject.
JUST PUBLISHED, DOMAT IN. } CIVIL LAW
INITS NATURAL ORDER, translatedinto English
by VIM. Strahan, LID, Advocate in Doctors
Commons Edited, from the ,, second London Edl "
the Judgesin the Court Of Common Pleas; now Lee
turer on Civil and Parliamentary Law in Harvard
University. In vols. Royal Syo.
Among the writers on the Roman Law whose
works are best known to English and American
lawyers, and which have exerted the most intiu-
ence upon our Jurisprudence, ia DoMAr, "whose
work, entitled Inc CIUtt ldt0 IN It's lv0ttH0t VI
der" says Judge Story, preface to Bailments,)
considering the age and the circumstances In
which it 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-
ton, was to disembarrass those of tho principles
and provisions of the Roman law, which are OF gen
eral interest and application, from the technlcnii-
ties of the system, and, by presenting them in
natural and scientific method, to render them more
ineligible, and their attainment moro useful and
agreeable; and, though Che work was particularly
intended for and adapted to tho French jurispru-
dcnce of the age it is not less applicable to every
system of law, IF which the Roman code is either
a part, or in which it is recognised as body of
written reason. Besides the general claims which
he work thus possesses to the attention Of the Anne
r.can 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 q belief on the part
OF the publishers that modern edition of this cele
brated work would be acceptable 70 tho profession
and have led them to engage in republication OF
the English TRANSLATION of it by Dr. Strahan
FROM HON JUDGE EUsTIs, CHEF JUSTICE
OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA. ~
ss BRooxLINE, Der. 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 inconyenient-and its scarcity and high
price prevented its general use in this country The
present publication, from its FORM it's style of exc
cution, and moderate price, think, cannot fail in
remunerating you. The translation by Mr.. Stra
nan has been tested; it is in the main correct, but
will be improved under the revision of the editor,
Judge Cushing. NJ 6g ,.. 81 stes
In searching for solution of the apparently new
questions arising out Of the various relations which
advancein civilization is creating, and in judy
ing Of those reforms the law which in progress
in different parts Of the United States the value OF
the civil law will be appreciated 1t comes to be
understood. II cannot be otherwise with system
most wonderful social organization that the world
has witnessed, and which is the real basis of
the jurisprudence of continental Europe. and of a
| 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 civilla has been per-
mitted to occupy in England, few of the standard
| lish, and this want has not been supplied by the
| original English trcatises on that subjcct have
| no doubt that in Louisiana, in Texas, in Caifor-
MIA and in the Territories of the ULted States,
rs 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
/ from time to time, in the English language, such
other standard works as will form the basis of 0
civil law library.
! remain, gentlemen, very rssPectfoIly. you
obedient servant, GEORGE EUSTlS.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN.
4 FROM ALFRED HENNEN, ESQ.,, OF THE
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