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These reasons have induced belief on the part
of the publishers that modern edition of this cce
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. CHIEF JUSTICE
OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
BRooKLINE, 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
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
cution, and moderate price, Think cannot fail in
remunerating you. The translation by Mr. Stra-
han has been tested it is in the main correct, but
will be improved under the revision OF the editor,
Judge Cushing.
In searching for solution of the apparently
questions arising out of the various relations which
advance in civilization is creating and in judg
of those refurms of the 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
understood II cannot be otherwise with system
of written which for centuries governed the
most wonderful social organization that the world
has witnessed, and which is the real basis of
the jurisprudence Of continental Europe, and of a
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 it 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-
nia and in the Territories Of the UL tied States
well as 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
from time to time, in the English language, such
other standard works as will form the basis Of
civil law library.
l remain, gentlemen, very respectfully, your
obedient servant, GEORGE EUSTlS.
Messrs. LITTLE BRowN.
FROM ALFRED HENNEN, ESQ, OF THE
NEW ORLEANS BAR.
BosToS SEPT. 8, 1850.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRows: Gentlemen-I am
much pleased TO learn that you are engaged in
publishing a revised edition of Strahan's transa-
ton of DOMAT ON CIVIL LAW No work in
the English language, the same subject, is to be
compared with it, for the fullness and correctness
OF the doctrine conveyed throughout it.
FROM the time of its publication, up to the pre-
cent, it has received the appreciation of the most
very deservedly. 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 Ii
Your obedient servant, ALFRED HENNEN.
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