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BOSTON.
TINTED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE:
II VOLUMEix Will be published on the LIST OF
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JUSTPUBLISHED, DOMAT I'M CIVIL LAW
INITS NATURAL ORDER, translatcdinto English
by VIM Strahan, LIZ D., Advocate in Doctors
ton. by Hon. LUTHER S. CUSHING, late one Of
the Judges in the Court OF Common rieas; nov nec
turer on Civil and Parliamentary Law In HARVARD
University. In vols Royal oyo ,vho.s
works are best known to English and American
lawyers, and which have exerted the most infu-
ence upon our l1risRIuaence, Don Ma;,rn Wn 1
dr." says Judge Story, preface to Bailments,)
considering the age and the circumstances in
which it was written, 10 truly wonderful per-
formance. His method is 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
eral interest and application, from the TECHNICAL
ties of the system, and, by presenting them in
natural and scienti6c 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-
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 il 10 recognised as body OF
written reason. Besides the general claims which
the work thus to the attention OF the Anne
r,can 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 republication Of
the English translation Of by DR.. strahan.
FROM HON. JUDGE EUsTIs. CHIEF JUSTICE
OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
BaooxLINE, 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
oI the English edition of the translation was too
large and inconvenient-and its scarcity and high
price its general usein this country. The
present publication, from its form, its style OF exc
cutiun and moderate price, think, cannot fail IN
rsmunerating you. The translation by Mr. Stra-
nan has been tested; il is in the main correct but
will be improved under the revision Of the editor,
Judge Cushing. f.T.f 2Hi.ifst
In searching for solution of the apparently new
questions arising out of the various relations which
our advance civilization creating, and in judg
Of those reforms of the 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. 1t cannot be otherwise with system
of written reasons which for centuries governed the
most wonderful social organization that the world
has witnessed, and which 10 the real basis OF
the Jurisprudence of continental Europe. and of a
large portion Of that of England and the United
States. tt.t
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-
United to occupy in England, few of the standard
works concerning have been translated into Eng
iish and this want has not been supplied by the
original English treatises on that subject. have
no doubt that in Louisiana, in Texas, in Califor
nia and in the Territories of the United 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
10 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 w
od s%an ssntemen vef 5aspEss Rngs
Messrs. LITTLE BRowN. Ei ~
FROM ALFRED HENNEN, ESQ.,, OF THE
NEW ORLEANS BAR.
~. Bosror, SEPT. 6, 1850.
rs LITTLE < BRows Gentlemen-I am
much pleased to learn that you engaged in
publishing a revised edition of Strahan's transa-
ton of DOMAT ON CIVIL LAW. No work in
the English language, the same subject, is to be
compared with il, for the fullness and correctness
the doctrine conveyed throughout it.
.From the time Of It's publication, up to the pre-
cent, it has received the appreciation Of the most
learned men and lawyers in every country, and
very deservedly. The compiIers Of the Code Ma
poleon drew copiously from it for their work. Ma
poleon himself studied il most carefully in early
life, which may account for the singular acuteness
and wisdom of bis observations and decisions, dur
ing the discussions on the adoption of his CODE
brary OF every American lawyer.
Your obedient 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 VOLS 8vo. Boston, 1895.
al should omit doing justice to my own feelings,
well as to the cause Of truth, il were not to
lect the decisions in Collisions and Mason's Re-
ports specimens Of pre-eminent merit. They
may fairly be placed upon a level with the best
productions the English Admiralty, for deep and
accurate learning well for the highes ability
and wisdom in decision."-3 Kent, 20; (2) 527.
MASON civilian P.) REPORTS OF CASES
in the Circuit Court Of the United States for the
First Circuit, from 1916 to 1880. s vols. svo.
'sTnese Reports comprise the Decisions of Mr.
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