The republic., 1851-04-18
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BOOKS PuBGIsnED AND I'M PRESS BY
CHARLES G. LIrTI.E a JAMES BROWN,
ROSTON.
TINTED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE.
" VOLUME TX Will be published ON the iat OF
April, next, ssThe Statutes az Large and Treaties
Of the United States OF America Volume tx,
couorising all the legislation OF the Congress OF
the United States from 1876 to 1851 inclusive;
royal vo., about HOO pages, Price $3.50, In
superior law binding. ~
This volume is a Continuation OF the Statutes at
Large in 8 VOLS, published by authority OF Con-
gress in 1856.
A COMPLETE sYNOPTICAL INDEX TO THE
UNITED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE, in
cluding those Of the 3lst Congress, prepared under
an order of the Senate, and 10 be Published agreea
bly, TO resolve Of that honorable body. Royal vo.
This Index will refer, under copious titles, 70
each law, and every joint and Senate and House
resolve, public or private, which has been passed
or adopted under the Federal Constitution so that
the reader may at glance the whole law on
any single subject
JUsTPUBLisHRD, DoMAT (nI. CIVIL LAW
INITS NATURAL ORDER translated into English
by VIM Strahan, LII. d., Advocate In Doctors
Commons Edited, from the second London Edi.
tion by Hon. LUTHER s. CUSHING, late one OF
the in the Court of CoIanon Pleas; now Lee
turer on Civil and Parliamentary Law In Harvard
University. In vols. Royal 5yo-
Among the writer's the Roman Law whose
works are best known 10 English and American
lawyers, and which have exerted the most infu-
upon 1url&pruucuCcs 10 DoMATs WHOSE
work, entitled fAs Girl La.o IN ifs Nai.ral Or
dr. says Judge Story, preface TO Bailments, }
considering the age and the circumstances in
which il was written, is truly wonderful per-
iormance. His method is excellent, and his mat
ter clear, exact, and comprehensive"
The object Of the author, in this learned produc-
tion, was TO disembarrass 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 a
natural and scientific method TO render them more
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agreeable; and, though thc work was particularly
intended for and adapted TO the French jurispru-
dence OF the age it Is not less applicable TO every
system of law, of which the Roman code is either
a part, or in which it is recognised as a body OF
written reason Besides the general claims which
she work thus to the attention OF the Anne
rscan lawyer, Domat has an those
of the States, whose legal institutions are derived
ia part from those of France Spain, and are thus
founded in the Roman law.
These reasons have induced a belief on the part
of the publishers that modern edition Of this cele-
brated work would be acceptable 10 the profession,
and have led them TO engage in republication OF
the English TRANSLATION of it by DIR. Strahan-
FROM HON. JUDGE EUSTIS, CHIEF JUSTICE
.s OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
BRooKLINE, Der. IL, 1850.
GEHTLKMEN. have examined the sheets OF the
translation Of the admirable work Of Domat on the
Civil Law, which you have been kind enough tc
send me- You win have rendered great service
to the science of law by the publication. The form
large and ACKNOWLEDGMENT its scarcity and high
price prevented it's general in this country The
present publication, from it's form, its style Of exc
cution and moderate price, Think, cannot fail IL
remunerating you. The translation by Mr.. Stra
nan has been tested; il Is in the main correct bu
will be improved under the revision of the editor
Judge Cushing
"A 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 ofthe law which in progress
in different parts Of the United States, the value OF
the civil law will be appreciated as il 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 ever witnessed, and which ia the real basis o.
the jurisprudence of continental Europe, and of q
large portion of that Of England and the Uniteo
States.
1t would be quite useless for me to speak of the
merits of the great work which your enterprise il
about TO give to the American public. From the
isolated position which the civil law has been per-
rnitted 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 Enghsh treatises ON that subject have
no doubt that In Louisiana, in Texas, in Califor-
MIA and in the Territories OF the United States
ns 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 20 time, in the English language, such
other standard works as will form the basis of o
civil law library.
remain, gentlemen, very rsspectfully. you'
obedient servant, GEORGE EUSTlS.
Mcssrs LrrrLE * BRowr.