The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-03-28
aooxs PUBLISHED AND I'm PRESS BIZ
CHARLES G. LITTLE q JAMES BROWN.


BOSTON. 4
IVrNyTED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE,
1 III VOLUME TX. Will be published On the lst Of
April next, "The Statutes at Large and Treaties
comprising all the legislation of the Congress Of
| the United States from lS46 to 1851 inclusive;
| royal vo, about 100 pages. Price $3.50, in
/ superior law binding.
| This volume is Continuation of the Statutes at
Large in vols, published by authority Of Con-
gress in 1856.
"A COMPLETE SYNOPTICAL INDEX TO THE
UNITED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE, in
order of the Senate and to be published agreea-
bly, to resolve of that honorable body. Royal vo
This Index will refer, under copious ttlesI to
l 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
l the reader may at glance the whole law on
/ any single subject.
| JUsTPUBLIsHED, DOMAT (M.) CIVIL LAW
| INITS NATURAL ORDER, translated into English
by VIM Strahan, LID, Advocate in Doctors
Commons Edited, from the second London Edi
ton, by Hon. LUTHER s. CUSHING, late one Of
the Judges in the Court of Common Pleas; now Lee,
turer on Civil and Parliamentary Law in Harvard
/ University. In 2 vols. Royal Svo
i Among the writer's on the Roman Law whose
l works are best known to English and American
| lawyers, and which have exerted the most infu-
v work, entitled }xe Eiua Law in il Natural Or
der,'' says Judge Story, preface to Bailments.)
| considering the age and the circumstances in
| which it was written, Is a 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, to disembarrass those OF the principles
and provisions of the Roman law, which are of gem
eral interest and application from the TECHNICAL
tics of the system, and, BY presenting them In
natural and scientific method, TO render them more
intelligible and their attainment more useful and
agreeable; and, though the work was particularly
intended for and adapted to the French jurispru-
dence of the age, it ia not less applicable to every
system of law, If which the Roman code ia either
| a. part or in which it is recognised as a body of
written reason. Besides the general claims which
the work thus possesses to the attention OF the Anne
rcan lawyer, Domat has peculiar interest in those
of the States whose legal institutions are derived
in part from those Of France or Spain and are 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 q 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
| send me. You will have rendered great service
to the science of law by the publication. The form
| Of the English edition of the translation was toe
large and inconvenent--and its scarcity and high
price prevented its general in this country. The
present publication, from its FORM its style Of
cuion, and moderate price, Think, cannot fail in
| 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.
In searching for solution of the apparently new
questions arising out Of the various relations which
advance in civilization is creating, and in udg
ing of those reforms Of the law which in progress
in different parts of the United States, thova
the civil law will be appreciated it comes to b.
| understood. 1t cannot be otherwise with system
of written which for centuries governed tn,
most wonderful social organization that the worle
has ever witnessed, and which is the real basis o
the jurisprudence of continental Europe. and of
large portion of that of England and the United
States.
It would be quite useless for me to speak of tn,
merits of the great work which your enterprise i
about to give to the American public. From tn
isolated position which the civil law has been per
United 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 til,
original English treatises that subject. have
no doubt that in Louisiana, in Texas, in Califor
MA and in the Territories Of the United States
as we'll as in Lower Canada, there will be ready
demand for your publication. The profession
throughout the Union will readily lend their favo
to the undertaking; and trust that your enter
from time to time in the English language, sue
c other standard works as will form the basis Of
civil law library.
remain, gentlemen, very respectfully, you
r obedent servant, GEORGE EUSTlS.
: Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN.
s FROM ALFRED HENNEN, ESQ, OF THE