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BOOKS PUBLISHED AND IN PRESS By
CHARLES Q. LITTLE = JAMES BROWN
BOSTON.
TINTED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE.
II VOLUMEIx. Will be published ON the LIST OF
April, next, The Statutes At Large and Treaties
| Of the United States OF America, Volume TX,
comprising all the legislation OF the Congress OF
the United States from lS46 to 1851 inclusive;
royal vo., about HOO pages. Price $500, In
| superior law binding.
Large in 8 vols, published by authority Of Con-
gress in 1866.
,AGoMPLETE sYNOPTICAL INDEX TO THE
UNITED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE, in
GLIDING those of the 3lst Congress, prepared under
an order Of the Senate and to be published
bly, TO resolve of that honorable body. Royal svo.
This Index will refer, under copious titles, TO
each law, and every joint and Senate and House
resolve, public or private which mas peen passea
| the reader may at a glance the whole law on
any single subject.
JUsTPUBLIsHED, DOMAT IN. CIVIL LAW
IN ITS NATURAL ORDER, translatcdinto English
by Wm strshan, LID, Advocate In Doct tor;
| ton, by Hon. LUTHER S. CUSHING, late one OF
the judgesin the Court Of Common Pleas; now Lee,
turer on Civil and Parliamentary Law in Harvard
| University, In 2 vols. Royal Svo.
Among the writers on the Roman Law whose
| works are best known to English and American
| lawyers and which have exerted the most ini1u-
v work, entitled fNe ESsI LaD in its Natural Or
DER" says Judge Story, preface to bailments,)
| considering the age and the circumstances IN
which it was written j. truly won nd bis pst
| 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
natural and scientific method, to render them more
intelligibIe and their attainment more useful and
agreeable; and, though che 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 10 either
| a. part or in which il is recognised as 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 interestin 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 a republication OF
the English translation Of it by DIR. Strahan.
| FROM HON. JUDGE EUSTIS, CHIEF JUSTICE
OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
| BRooxLINE, Der. IL, 1885,
GEsrLEMEN: Ihave 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
large and inconvenient-and its scarcity and high
prce prevented it's general in this country. The
present publication, from its orn It's style OF exc
cution, and moderate price, lthnk, cannot iai IN
remunerating you; The translation oy Mr. SRA n.
nan has boen tested; il ia in the main correct, but
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
our advance in civilization is creating, and in udg
ing of those reforms law which are in progress
in different parts of the United States, the value OF
| Understood. Il cannot be otherwise with system
of written reasons which for centuries governed the
most wonderful social organization that the world
has 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. -.
II 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-
rnitted to occupy in England, few Of the standard
works concerning III have been translated INTO Eng
lish and this want has not been supplied by the
original English treatises on that subject nave
no doubt that in Louisiana, in Texas in Calitor-
MA and in the Territories Of the tied States
a. we'll as in Lower Canada, there will DO ready
| demand for your publication. The profession
throughout tho Union will readily lend their favor
10 the undertaking.; and trust that your enter
nrisinr house will find it's interest in publishing,
from time 70 time, in the English language, such
other standard works as will form the basis OF a
civil law library.
remain gentlemen very En respse' Euysr gSu'
Mcssrs. LIrTLB BRowN.
FROM ALFRED HENNEN, Esq, OF THE
NEW ORLEANS BAR.
BosroS, SEPT. 6, 1885,
Messrs. LIrrLr 4 BRowN: Gentlemen-I am
much pleased TO learn that you are engaged IN
publishing revised edition OF Strahan's transia-
ton of DOMAT ON CIVIL Law. No work in
the En- glish language, o. the samesubject ia to be
compared with Il, for The fullnsss and correctness
ofthe doctrine conveyed throughout it.
Erom the time of its publication, up to the pre-.
sent it has received the appreciation OF the most
learned men and lawyers in every country. AND an
| polcon drew copiously from 1t for their work. Ma
poleon himself studied it most carefully in early
life, which may account for the singular acutenesi
and wisdom of his observations and decisions, dur
ing the discussions the adoption Of his code
! Domat should, and hope will be, found in the Ii
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 fra
. | circuit from 1912 to 1851, as follows:
II GALLISON'S REPORTS. Reports Of Cases ar
> gued and determined in the Circuit Court of the
United States, for the first Circuit, from 1872 tc
1915. Second edition, with additional Notes and
References. vols. 6vo. Boston, 1885.
al should omit doing justice to my own feelings
as we'll as to the Of truth, IL were not to
ect the decisions in Collisions and Mason's Re-
ports as specimens Of e-eminent merit. They
= may fairly be placed upon level with the bes
productions ofthe English Admiralty, for deep nnc
accurate learning, as well az for the highest ability
and wisdom in decision. % Kent, 20; (2) 527.
: MASON (william P.) REPORTS OF CASES
lin the Circuit Court Of the United States for thu
First Circuit, from 1916 to 1880. 5 vols. Svo.
}. "These Reports comprise the Decisions of Mr.
Justice Story on the First Circuit of the Untet