The republic., 1851-04-09
BOOKS PUBLIsHED AND IN PRESS BY
CHARLES G. LITTLE 4 JAMES BROWN,

BOOKS PUBLISHED AND IN PRESS By
CHARLES G. LITTLE & JAMES brown,
BOSTON.
TINTED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE,
April, next, "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
This volume is a continuation of the Statutes at
Large in VOLS, published by authority OF Con-
gress in 1886.
.ACOMPLETE sYNOPTICAL INDEX TO THE
UNITED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE, in
cluding those of the 3st Congress, prepared under
an order Of the Senate, and to be published agreea
bly, to resolve of that honorable body. Royal b vo
This Index will refer, under copious uties' 10
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.
USTPUBLISHED. DOMAT IN. } CIVIL LAW
INITS SNATURAL ORDER, translatedint English
by VIM. Strahan, LID. Advocate in Doctors
Commons. Edited from the second London Edi
ton, by Hon. LUTHER 8. CUSHING, late one OF
the Judges 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 exerted the most infiu-
ence upon our jurisprudence, is DoMAr, "whose
work. entitled The CiuiI Law 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-
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 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
agreeable and, though the work was particularly
intended for and adapted to the French jurispru-
dence Of the age, it 10 not less applicable to every
system Of law, of which the Roman code is either
a part, or in which il is recognised as a body Of
written reason. Besides the general claims which
The 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 Spaln 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
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.
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 its form s style of exc
cution, and moderate price, Think, cannot fail in
remuneratng you The translation by Mr. Stra-
han has been tested it is in the main correct but
will be improved under the revision OF the editor,
Judge Cushing
In searching for a solution of the apparently new
questions arising out of the various relations which
advance in civilization is creating, and injudg-
ing of those reforms law which in progress
in different parts of the United States, the value
the civil law will be appreciated as il 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 ia the real basis o
the jurisprudence of continental Europe. and of q
large 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 il
about to give 10 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 il have been translated into Eng
| ish, and this want has not been supplied by the
original English trcatises on that subject have
no doubt that in Louisiana, in Texas, in Califor-
na and in the new Territories of the UL 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
prisng house will find its interest in publishing
from time to time, in the English language, such
other standard works will form the basis of
civil law library.
l remain, gentlemen, very respectfully, you
obedicnt servant, GEORGE EUSTlS.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN.