The republic., 1851-10-28
ENGLISH REPORTS I'M LAW AND
EQUITY.

Law and Equity in England can be more prompt
ly and cheapy furnished to the legal profession in
this country, has long been seriously felt and ac-
knowledged To meet a similar want in England,
the "LGto Journal Reports" and "Ihe Juist, )"
which, together report decisions IN all the Courts IN
Lam and Equity, within lew weeks after their
delivery, were commenced 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 circu-
lation in this country, and their merits are yet
but little known among us.
The subscribers propose to republish these
ports in full fast they appear in England and
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 of
Bankruptcy, including also the Election caseB, the
Crown Cases Reserved, and the Railway and Canal
Cases.
/ 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-
| ferences to analogous American decisions
Each number will consist of over three hundred
pages closely printed octave, on the best paper, and
in clear fair type, and will contain table of casee,
and full table of contents, thus forming com
! plete volume by itself, well part of an en-
tire series. Every alternate second number will
be PACED consecutively from the number imme-
djatey preceding, and will contain table Of cases,
and of contents TO both, and thus form complete
In each volume the OF the several courts will
be found arranged together, and, In point of style
and typographical execution, this series will be
fully equal 10 the best reports OF England or this
country.
ltis designed TO make this q PERMANENT PUBL
CATION, and thus establish series of English
Law and Equity Reports, which shall, in all
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 too gears before they
9TH ho rhafOr thar
lication of the conemporaneou5 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 and uniformly bound in law
sheep, 10.
The parts will be sold separately, il desired, at
81 each.
Single volume bound, So %.
Parts |. and H., stitched, or VOL L., bound in law
sheep, containing reports of hundred and
eighty eight cases, now ready for delivery.
The following among the opinions of this
work expressed on the publication Of the fret
ber:
Letter from Hon. Ailiard Fillmore, President Of the
United States.
WAsHNGToN, April l3 1851.
JAMES BRowN, ESQ., My DEAR SIR-Some days
since l received, by the hand of the Postmaster
General, the first number of the English Reports,
which you propose to republish in this country
comprising every case reported in England; and
now have your letter of the 9th instant, inquirng
my 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-
slider no law library complete that docs not contain
their principal reports in Law and Equity, and in
their Ecclesiastical Courts, and in Admiralty. For
some years had been in the habit of receiving
these in sc condensed" form. This condemnation
however, consisted, not in abbreviation of each
case, but a selection from the several cases and
nlta m hyy HnIin rafar to-
in the Digests, which i deemed very important
wholly omitted in the CONDENSED reports
therefore hailed with great pleasure effort which
was made some time since to republsh the whole.
If the English Reports entire can be repubshed
with despatch in this country, at price 80 low
to bring them within the reach of the members OF
the bar generally, conceive that it will confer
great benefit upon the profession and the judiciary,
and consequently upon the country at large. Know
ing your enterprise anticipate your success and
can only express the hope that your reward may
he equal to your merits. l am your obedient
servant, MILLARD FILLMORE.
From The Ne,o York Literary H'orld
Messrs. Little & Brown, Of Boston, whose law |
books, in point of typographical execution, vic
with the best similar issues of the English press,
and III point of value and mpor rtance inferior |
TO none in this country, have just commenced the !
publication of legal sercs deserving the especial
attention of the profession throughout the country.
The basis of this series, of which the first mum
ber is before US, the La,o Journal Reports and
the Jurist, two English serials which communicate
TO the British Bar, within few weeks after their |
delivery, the prominent decisions of all the courts
from the House of Lords to the Court Of Bankrupt
cy. and other tribunals OF limited but practically
important jurisdiction. This excellent arrange
nent might 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
glad to see the enterprise Of our legal pub
fishers availing themselves of it, to introduce the
English Reports promptly and regularly to the pro-
Of oil h,sIo
nothing of its sanction and the permanently high
character OF the English judiciary gives 70 their
ndiudicatious a continued weight and decisive in
uence with our courts. Hitherto the difficulty has
been that the reported cases there have grown old
before they could be quoted and applied here, and
there way in which the current urispru-
dence and adudications of the day in the En- nglish
courts could be made available by the American
bar except at great expense and by continual vigi-
lance This difficulty Messrs Little & Browns
Reports will remove; the cases decided in the
Queens Bench, the Common Pleas and the Ex-
cbequer Chamber in january, will be ready for de-
livery here in April or May, long before adjudged
of the same date in our own courts appear in
the regular reports in which they are perpetuated.
Nearly years will thus be gained over the pre-
sent system, which requires delay until the large
volume of authorized reports is published the
other side and h hen been reprinted on this
One advantag, If the present series is that the
decisions which i, gives those of courts in banc
the deliberate judgments of the bench, and not the
ess reliable decisions at Nisi Prius, which, how
with them the same authority and force.
The Reports edited by f. H. Bennett and
Chauncy Smith, esqs., OF the Boston bar and their
systematic arrangement, and the care with which
the notes, index, SC, are prepared, evidence the
horoughmanner in which the proposed series will
be carried out.
In this connexion take pleasure in adyerting
to Messrs Little and Browns other legal pubica-
tons, among which are included many of the most
conspicuous and authoritative treatses of our iurs-
prudence. Judge Story's works, for ming a library
almost OF themselves, and familiar for their high
value and extensive reputation to American read
in general, well to the legal profession,
have all issued from their press; have also the
several works of Professor Greenleaf. 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 NetD York Eoening Post.
Little & Brown, of Boston, to whose enterprise
the reading public has so often been indebted for