The republic., 1851-03-17
BOOKS PUBLISHED AND IN PRESS NY
CHARLES c. LITTLE s. JAMES BROWN,

HOOKS PUBLISHED AND IN PRESS BY
CHARLES c. LITTLE g. JAMES BROWN,
BOSTON.
TINTED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE.
| u vOLUMEIX. Will be published on the LIST OF
| April next, "The 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 l646 to 1851 inclusive;
royal vo, about HOO pages. Price $3.50, in
| superior law binding.
This volume is continuation of the Statutes at
Large in vols, published by authority OF Con-
| gress in 1856.
"A COMPLETE SYNOPTICAL INDEX TO THE
UNITED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE, in
cludng those of the 3lst Congress- prepared under
order Of the Senate and to be published agreen-
bly, to a resolve of that honorable body. Royal 6vo
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 sec at o glance the whole law on
| any single subject.
JUSTPUBLISHED, DOMAT (NI.) CIVIL LAW
| INITS NATURAL ORDER, translatedinto English
| by VIM. Strahan, LID, Advocate in Doctors
Commons. Edited from the second London Edi.
ton, by Hon. LUTHER s. CUSHING, late one OF
the Judgesin the Court of Common Pleas; now Lee,
| turer on Civil and Parliamentary Law in Harvard
University. In vols. Royal Svo.
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 Civil LdD tn its Natural Or
DER" says Judge Story, preface to Bailments,)
considering the age and the circumstances in
| which it was written, is truly wonderful per-
| Gormancc. His method 10 excellent, and his mat
| ter clear exact, and comprehensive"
| The object of the author, in this learned produc-
| tion was to disembarrass those Of tho principles
and provisions of the Roman law, which are OF gen
eral interest and application, from the technicali-
| ties of the system, and by presenting them In
natural and scientific method, to render them more
| ineligible, and their attainment more useful and
| agreeable; and, though the work was particularly
| intended for and adapted to the French jurispru-
dcnco of the age it ia 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
the work thus possesses to the attention of the Ame
rcan lawyer, Domat has peculiar interest in those
of the States, whose legal institutions derived
in part from those Of France or span 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 to the profession,
and have led them to engage in republication OF
the English translation of it by DIR. Strahan
FROM HON. JUDGE EUsTIS, CHIEF JUSTICE
| OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
BnooKLINE, 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 inconvenient-and its scarcity and high
price prevented its general use in this country The
present publication from its form, its style Of
cutou, and moderate price, think, cannot fail In
| rcmunerating you. The translation by Mr. Stra-
han has been tested; is in the main correct, but
| will be improved under the revision of the editor,
| Judge Cushing
la searching for a solution Of the apparently new
questions arising out of the various relations which
our advance in civilization is creating, and in judg-
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 as 1t comes to DC
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 is the real basis of
the Jurisprudence OF continental EUROPE and OF
| large portion of that of England and the United
States.
Il 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-
| mtted to occupy in England, few OF the standard
works concerning it have been translated into Eng
| sh, and this want has not been supplied by the
! original English trcatises that subject. have
| no doubt that in Louisiana, in Texas, in Calfor
na and in the Territories Of the United States.
| as well in Lower Canada, there will be a ready
demand for your publication. The profession
throughout the Union will readily lend their favor
TO the undertaking.; and trust that your enter
prising house will find it's interest in publishing,
| from time to time, in the English language, such
| other standard works as will form the basis OF
civil law library.
remain, gentlemen, very ISsPeS'iu,,ly tyou'
obedient servant, GEORGE EUSTlS.
Messrs. LITTLE BRowN.
FROM ALFRED HENNEN, ESQ, OF THE
NEW ORLEANS BAR.
BosroN, SEPT. 6, 1850
| Nessrs LITTLE & BRowN: Gentlemen-I am
| much pleased to learn that you are engaged in
| publishing a revised edition of Strahans transa-
| ton of DOMAT ON CIVIL LAW. No work in
the glish language, the same subject is to be
compared with Il, for the fullness and correctness
Eofthe doctrine conveyed throughout it.
i Erom the time of its publication, up to the pre-
sent it has received the appreciation of the most
learned men and lawyers in every country, and
very deservcdly. The compilers Of the Code Ma
poleon drew copiously from it for their work. Ma
poleon himself studied it most carefully in early
life, which may account for the singular acuteness
and wisdom of his observations and decisions, dur
ing the discussions on the adoption of his code
Domat should, and hope will be, found in the IL
brary of every American lawyer.
/ Your obedient 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, follows:
| GALLISON'S REPORTS. Reports of Cases
gued and determined in the Circuit Court Of the
United States, for the first Circuit, from 1912 to
1915. Second edition, with additional Notes and
References. 2 vols. 6vo. Boston, 1895.
IL should omit doing justice to my own feelings,
as well to the cause Of truth, if were not to Sc
lect the decisions in Gallison's and Mason's Re-
ports specimens Of eminent merit. They
may fairly be placed upon level with the best
productions oftb English Admiralty, for deep and
accurate learning, well as for the highest ability
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