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urN,TED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE,
yOI,UMEIX. Will be published on the LIST OF
April, next, 1.-THE Statutes at Large and ifens'es
COMPRISING all the legislation Of the Congress OF
the United States from 1916 to 1851 inclusive;
royal vo, about 100 pages. Price $3.50, IN
superior law binding.
This volume is a continuation of the Statutes at
Large in vols, published by authority OF Con-
gross in 1906.
.ACoMPLETE SYNOPTICAL INDEX TO THE
UNITED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE, in
GLIDING those of the 3st Congress, prepared under
an order of the Senate. and to be published agreea-
bly, to u resolve of that honorable body. Royal vo
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, that
the reader may see at glance the whole law on
any single subject.
JUsTPUBLIsHED, DOMAT IN. } CIVIL LAW
IN ITS NATURAL ORDER, translatedinto English
by VIM Strahan, LID, Advocate in Doctors
Commons Edited, from the second London Ed
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
I University. In vols. Royal Svo
Among the writers on the Roman Law whose
works are best known TO English and American
lawyers, and which have exerted the most infu-
ence upon our Jurisprudence, Is DON'T, WHOSE 0
der,' says Judge Story, preface to Bailments,)
considering the age and the circumstances in
which it was written, is truly wonderful per-
lormance. His method is excellent and his mat
ter clear, exact, and comprehensive
The object of the author, in this learned produc-
ton, was to dsembarrass those of the 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-
dcnce Of the age it is not less applicable to every
system of law, Of which the Roman code is either
part or in which it is recognised body of
written reason. Besides the general claims which
the work thus possesses to the attention Of the Anne
r.can lawyer, Domat has peculiar interests in those
of the States whose legal institutions derived
in part from those of France or Spain and arc thus
founded in the Roman law.
These reasons have induced 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 a republication of
the English translation Of it by Dr. Strahan.
FROM HON. JUDGE EUsTIs, CHEF 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
send me. You will have rendered great service
10 the science OF law by the puDUCatlOn. Inc IOrm
of the English edition of the translation too
large and inconvenicnt-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-
nan 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 new
questions arising out of the various relations which
our advance in civilization ia 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 it comes to be
understood. II cannot be otherwise with q system
Of written reasons 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
large portion of that of England and the United
States.
1t 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-
| Initted to occupy in England, few of the standard
works concerning il have been translated into Eng
lish, and this want has not been supplied by the
| original English treatiscs on that subject. have
no, doubt that in Louisiana, in Texas, in Califor-
MIA, and in the Territories of the UL tied States
as well as in Lower Canada, there will be 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 its interest in publishing,
from time to time, In the English language, such
other standard works as will form the basis Of q
civil law library.
obsa 5smas gentlemen very ssess EH
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN.
FROM ALFRED HENNEN, ESQ.,, OF THE
NEW ORLEANS BAR.
BosToN, SEPT. 6, 1850.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN: Gentlemen-I ain
much pleased to learn that you are engaged in
publishing revised edition Of Strahan's transla-
ton of DOMAT ON CIVIL LAW. No work in
the English language, the same subject, 10 to be
compared with it, for the fullness and correctness
Of the doctrine conveyed throughout it..
Erom the time of its publication. up to the pre-
cent it has received the appreciation Of the most
learned men and lawyers in every country, and
very deservedy. 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
DOmat should, and hope will be, found in the IL
brary of every American lawyer
Your obedicnt 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, as follows:
GALLISON'S REPORTS. Reports of Cases ar
| 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. vos. Svo. Boston, 1885.
81 should omit doing justice to my own feelings,
as well as to the cause of TRUTH if were not to Sc
lect the decisions in Collisions and Mason's Re-
ports as specimens of pre-emncnt merit. They
may fairly be placed upon level with the best
productions Of the English Admiralty, for deep and
accurate learning, as well as for the highest ability
and wisdom in decision. '-3 Kent, 90; (2) 527.
MASON (Wiliam P.) REPORTS OF CASES
in the Circuit Court of the United States for the
First Circuit, from 1916 to 1880. 5 vols. svo
| ffThese Reports comprise the Decisions of Mr.