The republic., 1851-12-22
ENGLISH REPORTS m Law AND
EQUITY.

law and Equity in England can be moro prompt
y and cheaply furnished to the legal profession in
this country, has long been seriously felt and ac-
knowledged To meet a similar want in England,
the % Lar Journal Reports" and ''1he Jurist,"
which, together, report decisions in all the Courts an
La,o and Equity, within few weeks after their
delivery, were commenced a number of years
since, and have met with the universal approba-
ton OF the legal profession. Their high cost, how
ever, has hitherto prevented their general clrcu-
laton in this country, and their merits are as yet
but little known among us.
The subscribers propose to republish these re-
ports IN full fast as they appear IN England ana
can be received here. They will contain reports
of cases decided in the House of Lords, the Privy
Council the several Courts of Equity, the Court OF
Queens Bench, the Court of Common Pleas, the
Court of Exchequer and EXchequer Chamber, the
Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts, the Court ot
Bankruptcy, including also the Election cases, the
Crown Cases Reserved, and the Railway and Canal
CGBes.
These reports will be published in numbers or
parts, commencing with the decisions OF Michael
mas (November) term, 1850, and will be carefully
edited by member Of the bar, with notes and re-
ierences to analogous American decisions
Each number will consist of over three hundred
pages closely printed octavo the best paper, and
in clear, fair type and will contain table of cases,
and full table of contents thus forming COM
plete volume by itself, as well as part OF an en-
tre.series. Every alternate or second number will
be paged consecutvely from the number imme-
diately preceding and will contain table Of cases,
and OF contents TO both, and thus form 4 complete
volume, ready for binding, Of ore siT hundred pages
In each volume the cases Of the several courts will
be found arranged together and, in point of style
and typographical execution, this series will be
fully equal to the best reports of England or this
country,
Itis designed TO make this n PERMANENT pURLG-
CATION and thus establish series OF English
Law and Equity Reports, which shall, i'll all re-
spects, be far in advance OF any other reprint OF
English Reports in this country, and which shall
furnish to the American lawyer the decisions Of
Westminster Hall, nearly tico years before they
could olhertr5e be obtained, and long before the pub
lication of the contemporaneous decisions of most
OF our own tribunals.
The price of this publication will be $40 for
twelve numbers payable in advance, or for the six
volumes, handsomely aad uniformly bound in law
sheep, $l2.
The parts VIII be sold separately II dcslred, at
81 each.
Singia volume, bound, 50 25
Parts l. and H.. stitched, or Vol l., bound in law
sheep, containing reports OF one hundred and
eighty eight cases, now ready for delivery.
The following among the opinions OF this
work expressed on the publication Of the first num-
Der:
Letter from Hon MiIard Fillmore, President Of He
United States.
WAsmNeToN, April l3 1851
JAMES BaowE, ESQ: MY DEAR SlR-Sone days
Eiuoe | received by the hand of the Postmaster
General the first number of the English Reports,
which you propose to repubiish in this country,
COMPRISING every case reported in England; and
have your letter OF tne Jth instant, lhqulrlng
nv opinion Of the enterprise
While pursuing my profession, took deep in
terest in publications of this kind. The able
Judges who have adorned the judicial tribunals of
England, have shed a lustre upon the Common
Law, and illumined its profoundest depths. con-
sider no law library complete that does not contain
their principal reports in Law and Equity, and in
their Ecclesiastical Courts, and In Admiralty For
some wears had been in the habit Of receiving
these in a a. cOndensed'' form. This condensation,
however, consisted, not 10 an abbreviation of each
caae but selection from the several cases. and
was often ANNOYED by finding a reference to casos
in the Digesie which j deemed very important,
wholly omitted in the - condensed reports" |
therefore hailed with great pleasure an Hort which
was made some time since TO repuhlish the whole.
If the English Reports entire, can be republished
with despatch in this country, at price so low as
10 bring them within the reach of the members OF
the bar generally, conceive that II will confer
great benefit upon the profession and the Judiciary,
and consequently upon the country atlarge. Know
ing your enterprise anticipate your success, and
can only express the hope that your reward may
be equal to your merits. your obedient
servant MiLLARD FILLMORE.
From che Nerp York Literary JForld
hIesHrs Little & Brown, Of Boston, whose law
books, in point of typographical execution, vie
with the best similar issues of the English press,
and in point of value and imnortancn i--f7-'--
TO none in this country, have Just commenced the
publication of legal series, deserving the especial
attention OF the profession throughout the country
The basis of this series, of which the first mum
her il before u.s. are the Ldic journal Reports and
the JuriSt two Entlish serials which communicate
10 the British Bar within a few weeks after their
delivery the prominent decisions OF all the courts
from the House of Lords TO the Court OF Bankrupt
CIV and other tribunals of limited but practically
iinportant jurisdiction. This excellent arrange
rnent night be followed with great advantage in this
country for the purpose OF obviating the delay
which necessarily attends the Issuing OF the regu-
lar volumes OF reports OF particular courts and
we are glad to see the enterprise OF our legal pub
lshe-s avaliug themselves of it, to introduce the
English Reports promptly and regularly TO the pro-
fession The authority OF Westminster Hall has lost
nothing of it's sanction and the permanently high
character OF the English judiciary gives to their
adiudications a continued weight and decisive in
Auence with our courts. Hitherto the difhculty has
been that the reported cases there have grown old
before they could be quoted and applied here, and
tbcre was no way in which the current Jurispru-
dence and adudications Of the day in the English
courts could be made available by the American
bar except at great expense and by continual vigi-
lance T'bis difficulty Messrs. Little & Browns
Renorta will remove; the cases decided III the
Queens Bench, the Common Pleas, and the Ex-
cheouer Chamber in January, will be ready for de-
livery here in April or May, long before adJudged
cases of the same date in courts appear in
the regular reports in which they arc perpetuated
Nearly two years will thus be gained over the pre-
sent system, which requires delay until the large
volume of authorized reports ls published on the
other side and has then been reprinted on this.
Use advantage OF the present series is, that the
decisions which gyes those OF courts in banc,
deliberate vi DthNu anu nOt tiit
inss reIiable DECISIONS at Nisi Prius, which, how
ever interesting in many instances, do not carry
with them the same authority and force.
The Reports are edited by p. II. Bennett and
Chauncy Smith, csqs. of the Boston bar, and their
systeinatic arrangement, aud the care with which
the notes, index, &c, are prepared. evidence the
thorough manner in which the proposed series VIII
be carried out.
In this connexion take pleasure in advcrting
to Messrs Little and Browns other legal publica
tions among which are included many Of the most
conspcuous and authoritative trcatiSes OF our Juris
prudence Judge Storys works, for ming library
almost Of themselves, and familiar for their high
value and extensive reputation to American read
ers in general, well To the legal profession,
have all issued from their press; have also the
aeveral works of Professor Grcenleaf. Two very
valuable and extensive annual publications also
,ssued by them, the United States Digest and the
Statutes at Large the latter being the authorized
edition of the Acts of Congress, got up in much
hctter stvIe both for reference and preservation,
tban under the old regime OF public printing at
Washington which included the annual statutes,
and sent them forth the world on thin paper and
in had type.
From the Nelu York EUeling Post.
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