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lance. This difficulty Messrs. Little & Browns
Reports will remove; the cases decided in the
Queens Bench, the Common Pleas, and the Ex-
chequer Chamber in January will be ready for de-
livery here in April or May, long before adjudgcd
cases Of the same date in own courts appear in
the regular reports in which they perpetuated.
Nearly two years will thus be gained over the pre-
sent system, which requires delay until the large
volume of authorized reports il published on the
| other side and has then been reprinted on this
One advantage of the present series ia, that the
decisions which it gives those of courts in banc,
the deliberate judgments of the bench, and not the
less reliable 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 E. II. Bennett and
Chauncy Smith, esqs., of the Boston bar. and their
Systematic arrangement, and the care with which
the notes, index, &C., are prepared, evidence the
thorough manner in which the proposed series will
| be carried out.
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to Messrs Little and Browns other legal publica.
tons, among which are included many of the most
conspicuous and authoritative tAxiscs Of our juris-
prudence: Judge Story's 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 prcss; have also the
Dveral works OF Professor Grcenleaf. Two very
Valuable and extensive annual publications are also
Issued 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
better style, both for reference and preservation,
than under the old regime Of public printing at
| Washington, which included the annual statutes,
and sent them forth to the world on thin paper and
in bad type.
From the Nsto York Evening Post
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the reading public has SO often been indebted for
the most valuable American and foreign books,
propose to publish by subscription, series of
the English Reports in Law and Equity. This
res will contain all the Authoritative decisions of
the House of Lords the Courts of Equity, the Privy
Court, the Queens Bench, the Exchcquer, Common
Pleas, &c.
The profession are assured that this series will be
the most complete Of any reports published.
careful examination of the Jtrist and La,c Jour-
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important cascs are here reported which not
found in the coDtemporancous reports Of Mecson &
Wesby. Manning, Granger & Scott, Adolphus Il
Ellie, and other reporters; and the Lao Journal
alone, during the fret years of its existence,
published over ono thousand not then else
where reported
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said In England they regarded as OF high
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spect in the English courts, and by their most
incnt elementary writer's.
They are cited with confidence, and ms autho-
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other eminent American judges, and in the writ
ings OF Grccnlcaf, Kent, Angel, Phillips, Gritty,
and others; and, for accuracy, ccarncss and bre-
witty, are equal To any English reports pub
Iishcd.
few copies OF both thesopcriodicals have been