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CHARLES C. LITTLE & JAMES BROWN,
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TINTED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE.
u VOLUMEIX. Will be published on the ist OF
April, next "The Statutes at Large and Treaties
of thc 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 Sj'oo, In
irb;s volume is Continuation of the Statutes at
Largo in vols, published by authority OF Con-
gress in 1856.
A CoMPLETE SYNOPTICAL INDEX TO THE
UNITED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE, in
an order of the Senate and to DO published agreea
bly, to resolve of that honorable body. Royal vo.
This Index will refer, under copious 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 soc ut glance the whole law on
any single subject.
JUST PUBLISHED. DONATE M. } CIVIL Law
Units NATURAL ORDER, translatedinto English
by VIM strahan, LID; Aavo ond J On Ed;
ton, by Hon LUTHER s. CUSHING, late one OF
the Judges in the Court Of Common Pleas; now Lee.
turer on Civil and Parliamentary Law in Harvard
Ln,yersity 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 iniiu-
enos OpOn; our Tr'.R;uaen nee M Nagss 0s
DER" says Judge Story, preface to Bailments,)
considering the age and the circumstances in
which il was written, is a truly wonderful per-
Torrance. 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 of gen.,
eral interest and application, from the TECHNICAL
ties of the system, and, by presenting them in
natural and scientific methods TO render them more
ineligible, and their attainment more useful and
agreeable; and, though che work was particularly
intended for and adapted to the French Jurispru-
system of law, If which the Roman code is either
a part, or in which it is recognised as a body OF
written reason Besides the general claims which
the work thus to the attention of the Anne
rcan lawyer bomat has peculiar interest in those
of the States whose legal Institutions are derived
In part from those of France or Spnin 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 a republication of
the English translation of it by DR.. Strahan.
FROM HON. JUDGE EUsTIs, CHIEF JUSTICE
OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
BRooKLINE, Der. ii, 1850.
GEsrLEMxS: have examined the sheets OF 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
Oh the English edition OF the translation was TOO
large and inconvenient-a its scarcity and high
price prevented its general uaein this country The
rresent publications. from its FORM its style OF exc
cutiun and moderate price, Think, cannot fail In
rsmuncrating you; Inc trani.an y ns Si ira,
will be improved under the reyision OF the editor,
Judge Cushing.
Ia searching for asolution of the apparently new
questions arising out OF the varioHs nJ q d
Of those reforms the law which are in progress
in different parts of the United Statcs the value Of
the civil law will be appreciated as comes TO DC
understood. 1t cannot be otherwise with system
of rtten 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 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 is
about to give to the American public. From the
isolated position which the civil law has been per-
mitted to occupy in England, few OF the standard
works concerning il 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 Califor-
MIA and in the Territories Of the Lited States,
az well as in Lower Canada, there will be a ready
demand Tor your publication. The profession
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 as will form the basis OF a
remain, gentlemen very resPecti TIIyc your
obedient servant, GEORGE EUSIlS.
Messrs. LITTLE BRowN.
FROM ALFRED HENNEN, ESQ, OF THE
NEW ORLEANS BAR.
BosToN, SEPT. 6, 1850.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN: Gentlemen--I am
much pleased to learn that you engaged in
ton of DOMAT ON CIVIL LAW. No work in
the English language the same subject, ia to be
compared with it, for the fullness and correctness
OF the doctrine conveyed throughout it.
Erom the time of lite publication, up to the pre-
sent, it has received the appreciation of the most
learned men and lawyers In every country, and
very descrvedly. The compilers Of the Code Ma
poeon drew copiously from it for their work. Ma
poleon himself studied il most carefully in early
life, which may account for the singular acueness
and wisdom Of his observations and dccisions, dur
ing the disc ussions on the adoption Of his code.
Dornat should, and hope will be, found in the H.
brary Of every American lawyer.
Your obedicnt servant, ALFRED HENNEN.
REPORTS OF CASES argued and determined in
the Circuit Court Of the United States for the first
circuit from 1912 to 1851. as follows: y
IiALLISON'S REPORTS. Reports of Cases ar.
gucd and determined in the Circuit Court of the
United States, for the hrst Circuit, from 1917 te
1915. Second edition, with additional Notes ano
References. vols. syo. Boston, 1885,
II should omit doing justice to my own feelings
as well as to the of TRUTH If were not TO Sc
Iect the decisions in Gallison's and Masons Re-
ports as specimens of pre-eminent merit. They
may fairly be placed upon level with the beat
productions Of the English Admiralty. for deep and
learning, well as for the highest ability
and wisdom in decision. "-3 Kent, 20; (2) 5T.
MASON twilliam P.) REPORTS OF CASES
in the Circuit Court of the United States for the
First Circuis, from 1916 10 1880. 5 vols. Svo.
s'rhese Reports comprise the Decisions Of Mr..
Justice Story the First Circuit Of the United
states, and follow in order after MIR. Galson's
Rcplrts. The Decisions relate TO great variety
OF subjects-Co Admiralty, Personal,
and Real Law, and Chancery, and are character
iczd by the profound learning, acuteness, and
thoroughncss of research, which are such eminent
t,aits Of their author. They will bear favorable
comparison. in point of learning and practical
utility, with the best volumes Of the English Re