The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-03-13
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the ''La,o Journal Reports" and "The yurist,
which, together, report decisions in dHths Courts
f1d,o and Equity within few weeks after thei
dehvery, were commenced number of year
\ since, and have met with the universal approba
ton of the legal profession. Their high cost, how
eyer, has hitherto prevented their general circu
ia'ion III this country and their merits are as ye
but little known among US.
The subscribers propose to repubsh these re
ports in full as fast as they appear in England an,
can be received here. They will contain reports
OF cases decided IN the House of Lords, the Priv,
council, the several Courts of Equity, the Court
queen s Bench, the Court of Common Pleas, the
Court OF Exchequer and Exchequer Chamber, the
| ECCLESIASTICAL and Admiralty Courts the Court o.
bankruptcy including also the Election cases the
Erown Cases Reserved, and the Railway and Cana
| Oases.
| These reports will be published in numbers OF
| P"N, commencing with the decisions of Michael
! Gus tNovember) term 1850, and will be carefully
eul'eu oy member of the bar, with notes and re-
iercnces TO analogous American decisions.
Eaoh humb"' will consist OF over three hundred
S"aely printed octave, the best paper, and
III C!eHr, lair type and will contain table Of cases
! md iull table of contents, thus forming n COM
! Pete volume by itself, as well part of en-
tire serIes Every alternate or second number will
| bc PACED consec utively from the number imme-
diately preceding and will contain a table of cases
| and of contents 20 both, and thus form complete
Volume, ready tor binding, peer siI hundred pages
n each volume the of the several courts will
oc iouuu atTduSeu loSetneT ana, IN point OF style
and typographical execution, this series will be
| fully equal to the best reports of England or this
| country
tits designed TO make this a PERMANENT PUBL
CATION, and thus establish series of English
Law and Equity Reports, which shall, in all re-
spects, be FAR ia advance of any other reprint of
English Reuorta IN This country, and which shall
furnish 10 the American lawyer the decisions of
Westminster Hall, nearly trpo years before they
could otherwise ba obtained and long before the pub
ication OF the contemporancous decisions of most
of our own tribunals.
The price Of this publication will be 80 for
twelve numbers, payable in advance, for the six
volumes, handsomely and uniformly bound in law
sheep, sl2
The parts will be sold separately, il desired, at
) each.
Single volune, bound So %.
Parts l. and H., stitched, or Vol l., bound in law
sheep, containing reports OF hundred and
eighty eight cases, now read for delivery.
The following are among the opinions OF this
work expressed the publication of the first num-
Letter troe Hon. Miilud Fillmore, President of The
United States.
WAsHiSGToN, April 10 1851.
JAMES BRowN, Esq: My DEAR SlR-Some DAYS
since ] received, by the hand Of the Postmaster
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 inquiring
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 luslrc upon the Common
Law, and illumined Its proioundcst depths. | con-
slider no law library complete that docs not contain
their principal reports in Law and Equity, and in
their Ecclesiastical Courts, and in Admiralty For
some years had been in the habit OF receiving
these in " condensed" form. This condensation,
however, consisted, not III ahbrcviation of each
ease, but a selection from the several cases and
was often annoyed by finding a reference TO cases
In the D1gests, which ] deemed very important
wholly omitted III the - condensed reports" |
therefore hailed with great pleasure an effort which
was made some tune since To republish the whole
II the English Reports entire, can be republishcd
with despatch in this country, at a price so low as
10 bring them within the reach of the members of
the bar generally, conceive that il will confer
great benefit upon the profession and the judiciary
and consequently upon the country at large. Know
ing your enterprise, anticipate your success and
i can only express the hope that your reward may
be equal TO your merit. J am your obedient
servant, WILLARD FILLMORE
From Me Mem York Literary IForId.
Mcssrs, Little 4 Brown, of Boston, whose law
books, IN point of typographical execution, vie
with the best similar Issues Of the English press
and ia 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-
beri5 before Us, arc the Lar Journal REPORTS and
the Jtuist, two English serials which communicate
60 the British Bar, within few weeks after their
delivery, the prominent decisions of all the cCslrts
from the House of Lords to the Court Of BANKRUPT.
cy, and other tribunals Of limited but practically
important jurisdiction. This excellent arrange
ment might be followed with great advantage in this
country, for the purpose OF obyiating the delay
which necessarily attends the Issuing of the rcgu-
lar volumes Of reports of particular courts and
arc glad TO the enterprise of our legal pub
fishers availing Themselves OF il, 10 Introduce the
English Reports promptly and rogularlyto the pro-
iCssOu. The authority OF Westminster Hall has lost
nothing Of it, sanction and the permanently high
character OF the English judiciary gives TO their
ndludicatlOns continued weight and decisive in
nuencC with our courts Hitherto the difficulty has
been that the reported casos there have grown old
before they could be quoted and applied here and
there was no way in which the current iurispru-
ornCc and authorizations Of the day in the English
courts could be made available by the American
bar. except at great expense and by continual vgi
lance. This difficulty Mcssrs. Little x Browns
Reports will remove; the decided in the
Quccn's Bench, the Common Pleas, and the TX.
chcqucr Chamber IN January, will be- ready Tor de-
livery here ia April or May, long before adjudgcd
CsscP 90 the same date In our own courts appear in
the regular reports in which they are pcrpctuatcd
Nearly two years will thus be gained over the pre.
,cnt systcm, which requires "A delay until the large
volume Of authorized reports 10 published on the
other side and has then been reprinted on this.
One advantage Of the prcscnt series il. that the
decisions which 10 gives those Of courts in bane
the deliberate judgments of the bench, aud not the
lo8s reliable decisions AZ Nisi PriHs, which how
ever intcrorting in many instances do not carry
with them the same authority and force.
The Reports are edited by T.. II Bennett and
Cnauucy Smith, csqs., of tho Boston bar aud their
systematic arrangement, and the care with which
IN, notice, index. &c, are prepared, evidence the
thorough manner in which the proposed series will
be- carried out.
Ia this connection VIC take pleasure i'm advcrtinr
To- Mossrs. Little and Browns other legal puhlica.
tions. among which arc included many fine most
conspicuous and authoritative rcatiscs Of our uris-
prudence. Judge StJry's works, for ming a library
almost VI themselves, and familiar ior their high
value and extensive reputation TO American read
crs ia general, we'll to the legal proie ssion
have all issucd from their prcss; have also the
several works OF Professor GrcenlcaE Two very
valuable aud extensive annual publications are also
J.zutd by them. the Uniied Siatcs Digesf and the
Si0flfes al Large; the latter being The authorized
edition OF thc Acts 81 C0ngrCss, got 40 in much
better style, both for reference aud prcscrvation
than under the old reCimS Of public printing at
Washington, which included the annual statutcs,
and scnt them forth to the world on thin apcr and
M bad type.
From me NciC York Ercnins Po,t
Little q Brown, Of Boston, To whose enterprise
the reading public has 40 often been indebted Tor
most valuable American and foreign books,