The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-03-06
BOOKS PUBLISHED AND IN PRESS bf
CHARLES C. LITTLE s. JAMES BROWN

crY,pIrs r.. I.IrrLE s. JAMES BROWN,
BOSTON.
TINTED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE.
II VOLUMEIX Will be published on the lat OF
| AnriI next 1.-THE Statutes at Large and Treaties
| of the United States Of America, Volume IX,
comnrising all the legislation Of the Congress OF
the United States from 1876 to 1851 inclusive;
royal vo., about 100 pages Price $780, In
This volume is a continuation Of the Statutes at
Large in s vols, published by authority Of Con-
gross in lSao-o.
,ACOMPLETE SYNOPTICAL INDEX TO THE
UNITED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE, in
Guiding those of the 3lst Congress, prepared under
an order of the Senate, and to be published agreea-
bly, to a 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, so that
the reader may at glance the whole law on
any single subject.
IN ITS NATURAL ORDER, translatedinto English
by VIM. Strahan, LID, Advocate in Doctors
Commons. Edited, from the second London Edi-
ton, by Hon. LUTHER s. CUSHING, late one OF
turer on Civil and Parliamentary Law in Harvard
University. In vols. Royal Svo.
Among the writer's on the Roman Law whose
works best known to English and American
lawyers, and which have exerted the most inftu-
| ence upon Jurisprudence, 10 DomAr, "whose
work, entitled The Cira Lao in its 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 ia excellent, and his mat
ter clear, exact, and comprehensive"
| The object Of the author, in this learned produc-
| ton was to disembarrass those Of the principles
and provisions of the Roman law, which are OF gen
era interest and application, from the TECHNICAL
| ties 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 is not less applicable to every
| system Of law, IF 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
The work thus possesses to the attention OF the Anne
| r,can lawyer, Domat has peculiar interestln those
of the States, whose legal Institutions are derived
in part from those of France 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 DIR. 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 too
/
price prevented it's general use in this country The
present publication, from it's FORM its style Of exc
cuton, 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 a solution of the apparently new
questions arising out of the various relations which
advance in civilization is creating and in judg-
ing of those reforms 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. Il cannot be otherwise with system
of written which for centuries governed the
| most wonderful social organization that the world
has ever 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.
| Il 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
fish, and this want has not boon supplied by the
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 az in Lower Canada, there will be a ready
| demand for your publication. The profession
throughout the Union will readily lend their favor
| 10 the undertaking; and trust that your enter
prising house will find it's interest in publishing,
from time TO time, in the Engliph language, such
other standard works as will form the basis Of q
civil law library
l remain, gentlemen, very respectfully. you
obedent servant, GEORGE EUoIlS.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN
FROM ALFRED HENNEN. Esq, OF THE