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BOOKS PUBLIsHED AND I'm rhEss nh
CHARLES G. LITTLE 4 JAMES BROWN

UNITED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE,
u VOLUMEIX. Will be published ON tne ISL OF
Anr1 merit "The Statutes at Large and Ireaties
~ he United States of America, Volume TX,
connrisinr all the Legislation OF the Congress oil
the United States from 1916 to 1881 inclusive;
royal vo, about 100 pages. Price $soo' In
PMS volume is Continuation of the Statutes at
Large in vols, published by authority of Con-
gress in 1856.
.ACOMPLETE 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 agreea
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 private, which has been passed
or adopted under the Federal Constitution, SO that
the reader may see at glance the whole law on
any single subject
JUST PUBLISHED, DOMAT (hI.) CIVIL Law
INITS NATURAL ORDER, transiatedin into English
by VIM Strahan, LID, Advocate in Doctors
Commons. Edited, from the second London Ed
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 ovo
Among the writers on the Roman Law whose
works are best known to English and American
lawyers and which have exerted the most infiu-
ence upon Jurisprudence, is DoMAr, "whose
work, entitled The CSril Lalo an its Natural Or
DER" says Judge Story, preface 20 Bailments,)
considering the age and the circumstances In
torrance. 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 scientific method, to render them more
Ineligible, and their attainment moro useful and
agreeable; and, though the work was particularly
intended for and adapted to the French ]urispru-
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 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, bomat has pee aliar 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
and have led them to engage in a republication of
the English translation Of it by Dr. Strahan.
FROM HON. JUDGE EUSTIS, CHIEF JUSTICE
OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
BRooxLIsE, Der. IL, 1850.
GENrLEMEN: / 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
large and inconvenient-and its scarcity and high
price prevented its general use IN this country The
"
cution, and moderate price, Think, cannot fail in
remunerating you. The translation by MIR. 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 solution of the apparently new
questions arising out of the various relations which
our advance in civilization ia creating, and in judg
in of those reforms the law which in progress
in different parts of the United States the value OF
the civil law will be appreciated comes to be
understood. It cannot be otherwise with system
u. u r a,
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.
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-
mitted 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 the
original English treatises on that subject. have
no doubt that in Louisiana, in Texas, in Califor-
MIA 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
to 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 a
civil law library.
l remain, gentlemen, very respectfully, your
Obedient servant, GEORGE EUSTlS.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN.
FROM ALFRED HENNEN, ESQ, OF THE
NEW ORLEANS BAR.
'BosroN, SEPT. 6, 1850.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN: Gentlemen am
much pleased to learn that you are engaged in
publishing a revised edition Of Strahans transla-
ton Of DOMAT ON CIVIL LAW. No work in
the English language the same subject, is to be
compared with it, for the fullness and correctness
of the doctrine conveyed throughout it.
FROM the time of it's publication, up to the pre-
sent, it has received the appreciation of the most
learned men and lawyers in every country, and
very deservcdly: The comPiiers OF the Code Ma
poleon himself studied it most carefully in early
life, which may account for the singular acueness
and wisdom of his observations and decisions, dur
Donat 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 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. 9 vols. Svo. Boston, 1885.
81 should omit doing justice to my own feelings,
well as to the cause Of truth, if 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 ofthc English Admiralty, for deep and
accurate learning, well as for the highest ability
and wisdom in decision."-3 Kent, 20; (2) SGT.
MASON (William P.) REPORTS OF CASES
in the Circuit Court Of the United States for the
First Circuit, from 1916 to 1880. vols. Svo.
"These Reports comprise the Decisions Of Mr.
Justice Story the First Circuit of the United
States, and follow in order after Mr.. Gallison's
Reports. The Decisions relate to great variety
OF subjects-Constitutional,A Admiralty, Personal,
and Real Law, and Chancery, and are character
iezd by the profound learning, acuteness, and
thoroughness of research, which such eminent
I, ats Of their author. They will bear favorable
comparison, in point of learning and practical
utility, with the best volumes of the English Re-
ports."
SUMMERS REPORTS. Sumner (Charles.)
Reports Of Cases argued and determined in the
Circuit Court Of the United States for the First Cir
cult. vols. 6vo.
'sThesc volumes contain the decisions of MIR.
Justice Story, and form continuation to the
ries of Gallison and Mason. The decisions in the
present volumes relate particularly to questions Of
Equity and Admiralty, and are Of great practical
value"
S1ORY'S REPORTS. Story (William W.
Der of Easea arOlicd and deternined in the