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LIMITED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE.
u VOLUMEIX. Will be published on the Let OF
April next, "Thc 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 l546 to 1881 inclusive;
royal vo., about 400 pagcs. Price $3.50, in
| superior law binding.
| This volume il q continuation of the Statutes at
Large in vols, published by authority OF Con-
| gross in 1856.
"A COMPLETE sYNOPTTCAL INDEX TO THE
UNITED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE, in
Guiding those Of the Slst Congress- prepared under
an order of the Senate, and to be publshed agreea
bly, to resolve OF that honorable body. Royal yo
| This Index. will refer, under copious titles, to
l each law and every Joint and Senate and House
resolve, public or private, which has been passed
adopted under the Federal Constitution, SO that
the reader may sec at glance tho whole law on
any single subject.
5gsTPgsIlsHEp DoMAT eMl CIVIL Law l1;Vs
| BY VIM. Strahan, LID, Advocate in Doctors
Commons. Edited, from the second London Edi
ton, by Hon. LUTHER 8. CUSHING, late one of
turer on Civil and Parliamentary Law in Harvard
University. In vols. Royal 8vo
! Among the writers on the Roman Law whose
| works are best known to English and American
lawyers, and which have exerted the most infiu-
snsi .e ees Hsf Iss IN Ns~s
say; judge Story 5saes to
which it was written, is truly wonderful per-
tormance. His method is excellent. and his mat
| ter clear, exact, and comprehensive" e.
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 gem
eral interest and application, from the technicali-
ties Of the system, and, BY presenting them in
natural and scientific method, TO render them
Ineligible, and their attainment useful and
agreeable; and, though the work was particularly
intended for and adapted to the French jurispru-
dcnce of the age It IL not less applicable to every
| system of law, IF which tho Roman code II either
| part, or in which it is recognised as body Of
written reason. Besides the general claims which
e work thus possesses to the attention Of the Anne
rcan lawyer Domat has peculiar interest in those
of the States. whose legal institutions derived
in part from those of France or Spain, and are thus
| founded in the Roman law ilis
These reasons have induced belief on the part
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 DR.. Strahan.
FROM HON. JUDGE EUsTIs, CHEF JUSTICE
OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
t BRooxLINE, Ocr. IL, 1850.
GxNTLEMEN: have examined the sheets Of the
translation of the admirable work Of Domat the
| Civil Law, which you have been kind enough to
send me. You viii 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 it's scarcity and high
price prevented is general use in thiscountry. The
present publication, from its form, its style Of
cution, and moderate price, Think, cannot fail in
| remunerating you. The translation by Mr.. Stra-
nan has been tested it il in the main correct but
will be improved under the revision of the editor
Judge Cushing. lEk t. ,fA ttt
In searching for q solution of the apparently new
questions arising out Of the various relations which
our advance in civilization il creating, and in judg-
ing of those reforms fhe law which in progress
in different parts of the United States, the value of
the civil law will be appreciated as it comes to be
of written which for centuries governed the
most wonderful social organization that the world
has witnessed, and which IL the real basis Of
the jurisprudence of continental Europe. and Of .
large portion Of that Of England and the United
| States.
II would be quito useless for mo to speak of the
o. Ss g sss ySie
isolated position which the civil law has been per-
nitted to occupy in England, few of the standard
works concerning 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-
MA and in the now Territories of the States
as well al in Lower Canada, there will be q ready
demand Cor your publication. The professon
throughout the Union will readily lend their favor
} 70 the undertaking; and trust that your enter
from time to time, in the English language, such
. other standard works as will form the basis Of a
civil law library .f .
obedsnt 5aspssS
Messrs. LITTLE Il BRowN.
. FROM ALFRED HENNEN. Esq, OF THE
NEW ORLEANS BAH.
BosroN, SEPT. 6, 1850.
Messrs LITTLE & BRowN: Gentlemen-I am
much pleased to learn that you. are engaged in
publishing q revised edition Of Strahans transla-
ton of DOMAT ON CIVIL LAW. No work in
the English language, on the same subject s to BE-
compared with it, for the fuliness and correctness
: Of the doctrine conveyed throughout it..
From the time of its publication, up to the pre-
sent, it. has received the appreciation of the most
j learned men and lawyers IN every country. and
very deservedly The compilers Of the Code Ma
poleon drew copiously from it for their work. Ma.
poleon himself studied 1t 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
e circuit from 1912 to 1851, as follows:
e GALLISON'S REPORTS. Reports of Cases ar
United States, for the first Circuit, from 1912 Il
1915. Second edition, with additional Notes and
References. 2 vols. svo. Boston, 1895. {,
SHOULD omit mn dong Justice to my own feelings
lect the decisions in Gallison's and Mason's Re.
!, ports az specimens Of e-eminent merit. They
may fairly be placed upon level with the bes
productions of the English Admiralty for deep and
accurate learning, as we'll as for the highest ability
and wisdom in decision."-3 Kent, 20; -(2) 527.
: MASON civilian P.) REPORTS OF CASES
in the Circuit Court of the United States for tn,
First Circuis, from 1916 to 1880. vols svo.
= "These Reports comprise the Decisions Of Mr.
Justice Story the First Circuit of the Unitct
!. States. and follow in. order after Mr.. Galson