The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-07-26
ENGLISH LAW AND EQUITY REPORTS.
To the Legal Profession.


parate parts will be discontinued. II is found that
the second part of each volume follows go rapidly
after he first, that the advantages OF publishing
by parts are unimportant. Each volume will here
after appear once in two months, in the same size
and style as heretofore, and at the same exceed
ingly low rate of 50 per volume to perm 1ent SUBJ
scribers.
The profession need not be reminded that this lie
the only series CT Reports. either in England or in
this Coantry, which attempts to contain ALL the
decisions of ALL the English courts. In Il ia series
every reported case Except nsi prius deoisions) is
given in FULL, without condensation abridg
ment, and the profession may rely upon having an
accurate republication of the English cases.
II may be proper .so TO state, that in England
there are no regular reporters, authorized by law,
as in this country but that each series of Reports
Is thOrc conducted solely rs a private enterprise,
by private reporters. And it ia believed that for
PRohPrNEss, ACCURACY, cLEARNEss, and BREviTY-
the essential requisites in any Reports-the Law
Journal and the Jurist Series not surpassed by
any rival series in England, and they have often
been found more correct. See the late case Of
Crofts as. Bealc, Is Eng Rep, 40S,) tchert the
paratire accuracy Of The Lao Joann& Reports, and
tie contemporaneous reports Of Manning + Gran
ger, to the true pieadings IN former case, tods
directly inpolped In that case, Jsrpis the Chit jas
tics Of The Common Pleas Observed: I is clear that
the plea III Sson Us. Kidman, as reported in Man.
Grang. $40, is not correct. The plea, IL is
ported IN the La,o Journal Rports is Just as my bro
Mer 1fdue Supposss " In addition To the foregoing
points of superiority in These Reports, they will
be found to contain many valuable cases not
elsewhere reported, while NO CASE ANY other
other series will be omitted in this. Arrangements
have Leen made whereby this series will contain
al! the reported cases in the Jurist and Law Jour.
nal; in Clark and Finnelly's Reports in the House
of Lords; L. F. Moore's Reports in the Prvy
Counci the Reports of Simons, Hare, Bsavan, De
Gex and Small, and Macne ghten and Gordon, in
the Courts of Equity; Adophus and Ellis, Man
ming, Granger and Scott, and Welsby, Hurstone
and Gordon, in the Common Law Courts; also the
Crrp ReDDrts q DenlsOn. Temple
and z. W. Cox; the Admiralty Reports of Robin
con, and the Ecclesiastical Reports Of Robertson
4 combination of legal reports entirely unequalled
in any country.
Additional value will ALEC be given to this series
from the fact that, hereafter, they will be digested
in the annual volumes Of the United States Digest
The first six volumes will be contained in Vol. v.
Of the Annual Digest, now in press.
We also beg leave to refer the reader to the an
nexcd recommendations.
BosToN, February, 1852
Letters of Recommendation recered from Judges of
the United States Supreme Court
WAsHINeToN, January q, 1852.
GENrLEmRN: My engagements here have not
permitted me To examine particularly your repub-
LEGATION of the Engissh Reports in Law and Equity
But, as far as have been able to look into them,
they appear to be correctly and well executed
And if they continue to be republshed with the
promptness of the volumes already out, and at the
price mentioned, they will be great convenience
the Bench aud the Bar, and cannot fail to attral
their attention. take pleasure in recommending
them.
am, with much respect, your obedient servant,
r. +. TANEY.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowS.
WAsHINGroN, January l9, 1852.
Meesrs. LITTLE s. BaowN: In the prompt repub
licatiuu Of the English Reports in Law and
Equity" you tender to the profession a most i'm.
portant service. The first volume of these Reports
TliSta iEfnH in hn IF IarI de
Privy Council, Courts Of Equity and Common Law,
from and after Michaelmas Term, 1850; also,
"Crown Cases Reserved, md Cases in the Eccle
siastcal and Admiralty Courts" And the second,
third, fourth and fifth volumes, which you have
published include the cases decided in the above
courts in 1851.
These Reports like all other works which pro-
coed FROM your press, are executed in most sub
stantal manner, and do credit to the enterprise of
the publishers. | became a subscriber for them
coon as they were found With the booksellers in the
West, and ana convinced, that from THEIR CHEAP
NESS AND EXTENT OF MATTER, THEY MUST SUPER
sEpE, AT LEAST IN THIS COUNTRY, ALL oTHEs Eng
LIsH RgPoRTs OF LATE DECISIONS.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JOHN MCLEAN.
wAsvINeToN, January &c, 1882.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowS: I think you have laid
the profession under great obligations, in the re.
publication of the English Reports in Law and
Equity" in this country.
will enable the bar generally in this way to fur
nish their libraries with the current English Re-
ports, Of which many OF them have heretofore been
deprived. They will thus have ready access to
the decisions OF courts sitting at the fountain
head Of the law, whence have been derived, for the
most part, the several systems more or less modi
fed, daily administered by the courts Of this
try. And, however modified these systems may
be, il 10 manifest that these decisions IN ust shed
great light upon the investigation of most OF the
csses arising here.
Your plan, also, will furnish the profession in
this country with the cases IMMEDIATELY AFTER
FIRST IMPORTANCE; for, if the Reports of
decided are of any value, the sooner they
are in the hands OF the profession the better. /
sincerely hope your encouragement from the bar
will be commensurate with the merit of the enter
price
| ain, with great respect, your obediont servant,
SAMUEL NELSON.
WAsEINoToN, January 26, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN- Gentlemen: BY your
publication Of the English Law and Equity Re-
ports, think an important benefit is conferred on
the legal profession in this country. The fidelity
with which these Reports appear to have been thus
far made, their compact and convenient arrange
mcnt their carly publication, bringing down the
decisions of all the important Courts to period
far within those Of any Court in our own coun-
try, together with their cheapness ought to be
efficient recommendations to insure their general
With great respect, am your obedient aervant
3. r. CURTIS.
WAsHINGToN, SegREME CoURT Room,
February II, 1852.
GESrLEMEN: ! have examined your repubica-
ton Of the current English and Commoa Law
Reports, and like very much the design and exc
cution oft.
Neither judge nor lawyer very we'll do
without the contemporary decisions Of the Eng
liSh Courts have found them always so instruc-
tive and use!ul, that l have hitherto read them in
any form in which they hive been published.
Hereafter will do 80 in yours.
The Courts in England are daily acting upon
cases presenting important and ALEC new features.
All of us must acknowledge that they adjudi-
Gated with very able and discriminating acuteness,
and with great learning.
Wishing your publication every success, am,
respectfully, your obedient servant.
JAMES M. WAYNE.
Messrs LITTLE & BRowS, Boston, Massachusetts.
WAsHINoToN, January 2S, 1852.
GEsrLEMsN: A publication like that in which
you are engaged. Of the English Law and Chan
cannot fail of great usefulness to the profession,