The republic., 1851-06-10
ENGLISH REPoR4s IN Law AND

ENGLISH REpoB4s In Law AND
EQUITY.
Proposals by LITTLE BRowN, ll2 Washington
sset, Boston, for publishing BY subseription a
series Of Ldtc and Equity Reports.
FTNHE want of some system by which the decisions
Il and judicial opinions of the several Courts of
Law and Equity in England can be more prompt
ly and cheaply furnished to To legal profession in
this country, has long been seriously felt and ac
knowledged. To meet q similar wantin England,
the "Latc Journal Reports," and "1xe Juyist."
which, together, report decisions in all the Courts in
Law and Equity, within few weeks after their
delivery, were commenced number of years
since, and have met with the universal approba-
ton OF the legal profession. Their high cost, how
ever, has hitherto prevented their general circu-
lation ia this country, and their merits are as yet
but little known among
The subscribers propose to republish these re-
ports in full as fast as they appear in England and
of cases decided in the House Of Lords, the Privy
Council the several Courts Of Equity, the Court of
Queens Bench, the Court of Common Pleas, the
Court of Exchequer and Exchequer Chamber the
Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts, the Court Of
Bankruptcy, including also the Election cases, the
Crown Cases Reserved, and the Railway and Canal
These reports will be published in numbers or
parts, commencing with the decisions of Michael
mas (November) term, 1850, aud will be carefully
edited by member Of the bar, with notes and re-
american
Each number will consist Of over three hundred
pages closely printed octave, the best paper and
in clear, fair type, and will contain table Of cases.
and full table Of contents, thus forming COM
plete volume by itself, we'll part Of an en-
tire series. Every alternate or second number will
be PACED consecutively from the number imme-
dateIy preceding, and will contain table Of cases.
and of contents TO both, and thus form a complete
volume, ready for binding, of 0Uer sr hupdred pages
In each volume the cases of the several courts will
be found arranged together, and in point of style
and typographical execution, this series will be
fully equal to the best reports Of England or this
country.
Itis designed to make this PERMANENT PUBL
CATION, and thus establish series Of English
Law and Equity Reports, which shall, in all re-
spects, be far in advanceeof any other reprint of
English Reports in this country, and which shall
furnish to the American lawyer the decisions Of
Westminster Hall, nearly tico years before they
could oteoise be obtained, and long before the pub
lication of the contemporaneous decisions Of most
of our own tribunals
The price of this publication will be $40 for
twelve numbers, payable in advance, for the six
volumes, handsomely aad uniformly bound in law
sheep, $l2
The parts will be sold separately, if desired, at
S EACH
Single volume, bound, So 25.
Parts l. and H., stitched, or Vol. L.. bound in law
sheep, containing reports OF one hundred and
eighty eight cases, now ready for delivery.
The following are among the opinions of this
work expressed on the publication Of the first num-
ber:
Letter from Hon. Millayd Fillmore, President of the
United States
WAsHIEaroN, April 13, 1851.
JAMES BnowN, ESQ.,: MY DEAR SIR--Some days
since received, by the hand of the Post master
General, the first number of the English Reports,
which you propose to republish in this country,
comprising every case reported in England; and
now have your letter of the 9th instant, nquiring
my opinion of the enterprise.
While pursuing my profession, took deep in
terest in publications Of this kind. The able
judges who have adorned the judicial tribunals of
England, have shed lustre upon the Common
Law, and illumined it's profoundest depths. ] con-
slider no law library complete that docs not contain
their principal reports in Law and Equity, and in
their Ecclesastical Courts, and in Admiralty. For
some years had been in the habit Of receiving
these in a " condensed" form. This condensation,
however, consisted, not in abbreviation of each
case, bat a selection from the several cases, and
was often annoyed by finding a reference to cases
in the Digests, which l doomed very important,
wholly omitted in the "condensed reports"
therefore hailed with great pleasure effort which
was made some time since to repubsh the whole.
If the English Reports entire, can be rcpublished
with despatch in this country, at price so low
to bring them within the reach of the members Of
the bar generally, conceive that it will confer a
great benefit upon the profession and the judiciary,
and consequently upon the country at large. Know
ing your enterprise anticipate your success, and
can only express the hope that your reward may
be equal to your merits l am your obedient
servant, MiLLARD FILLMORE.
From the Nelo York Literary World.
Messrs. Little & Brown, of Boston, whose law
books, in point of Typographical execution, vie
with the best similar issues of the English press,
and in point of value and importance are inferior
to none in this country, have just commenced the
publication of legal series, deserving the especial
attention of the profession throughout the country
The basis of this series, of which the first num-
Der ia before US, the Lao Journal Reports and
the Jwist, two English serials which communicate
a. A~A ik,oh no fnxnrx ofeo~k rr,-
delivery, the prominent decisions of all the COURTS
from the House of.Lords to the Court of Bankrupt
cy, and other tribunals of limited but practically
important jurisdiction. This excellent arrange
mcnt might be followed with great advantagein this
country, for the purpose OF obviating the delay
which necessarily attends the issuing Of the regu
lar volumes OF reports of particular courts I; and
glad to see the enterprise of our legal pub
fishers avaing themselves OF it, to introduce the
English Reports promptly and regularly to the pro-
fession. The authority of Westminster Hall has lost
nothing of it's sanction and the permanently high
character OF the English judiciary gives to their
adiudications continued weight and decisive in
fuence with our courts. Hitherto the difficulty has
been that the reported cases there have grown old
before they could be quoted and applied here, and
there was no way in which the current iurispru-
dence and adjudicationl of the day in the English
courts could be made available by the American
bar, except at great expense and by continual vgi
Reports will remove; the caaos decided in the
Queens Bench, the Common Pleas, and the Ex-
chequer Chamber in January, will be ready for de-
livery here in April or May, long before ndjudged
the regular reports in which they are perpetuated.
Nearly two years will thus be gained over the pre-
sent system, which requires delay until the large
volume of authorized reports is published on the
other side and has then been reprinted on this
One advantage of the present series 10. that the
decisions which it gives those of courts in banc,
the deliberate judgments Of the bench, and not the
less reliable decsions at Nisi Prius, which, how
,srta snota
with them the same authority and force.
The Reports are edited by E. H. Bennett and
Chauncy Smith, esqs., of the Boston BAR and their
Systematic arrangement, and the care with which
the notes. index, &C., are prepared, evidence the
thorough manner in which the proposed series will
be carried out. Q
In this oonnexion we take pleasure in advcrtipg
to Mcssrs. Little and Browns other legal pubca-
cr,,i ,ich Iul