The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-10-29
EsaLIsH Law AND EQUITY REPORTS


ENGLISH Law AND EQUITY REPORTS.
To the Legal Profession.
lTHE FIRST YEAR Of the publication Of the
EnSltsh Reports in La,o and Equity closes
with the sixth volume. Hereafter this series will
be published only in ooltnes, and the issue of Sc
Earate parts will be discontinued. II is found that
| the second part of each volume follows 80 rapidly
after the first, that the advantages Of publishing
by parts are unimportant. Each volume will here
after appear once in two months, in the same sze
and style as heretofore, and at the same exceed
ingiy low rate of So pervolume to permanent SUBJ
scribers. "''n... 70. 'r.. 4
The profession need not be reminded that this is
the only series OF Reports, either in England in
this country, which attempts to contain A LII the
decisions of the English courts. In this series
every reported case Except nis pus decisions) is
4 given In FULL, without condensation or abridg-
ment, and the profession may rely upon having an
4 accurate republication of the English cases.
| 1t may be proper elso to state, that in England
there are noregular reporters, authorized by law,
as in this country but that each series of Reports
| 10 there conducted solely as private enterprise,
by private reporters. And it is believed that for
PRoMPTNEss, ACCURACY, CLEARNEss, and BREvITY~
the essential requisites in any Reports-the Law
Journal and the Juris Series, not surpassed by
any rival series in England, and they have often
been found more, correct. See, the tc:s case of
Crofts Beale, (5 Eng. Rep, 40S, ,ohers tie com
Paratipe accuracy Of the Ld,D Journal p .uorts and
The eontemporaneo'4s reports " Manning & Gran
ser, as TO the tue pIeadings in former case, ,uas
dreciiy thUolued. In hut case, Jercis the Chief Jus
tice Of the Common Pleas obseroed: . is clear that
ne plea IN Sison Os. Kidmnn, as reported in Man
Grang; eiQ, Is not correct 1he plea, as IL is re
ported in the La,p Journal Reports is lust as y bro
ther Hdu!e c,pposes," In addition to the foregoing
points OF superiority in these Reports, they will
De found to contain many valuable cases not
elsewhere reported, while NO CASE IN AMY other
other series will be omitted in this Arrangements
nave been made whereby this series will contain
all the reported cases in the Jurst and Law Jour-
mall In Clark and Finnelly's Reports in the House
| T.
Council; the Reports of Simons, Hare Beavan, De
Gex and Small, and Macnaghten and Gordon in
the Courts OF Equity; Adolphus and Ellis, Man
nlng, Granger and Scott, and Welsby. Hurlstone
| ana GORDON in the Common Law Courts; also the
criminal Reports of Denison, Temple and New,
: auo E. w. Cox; the Admiralty Reports of Robin
son, and the Ecclesiastical Reports of Robertson
combination of legal reports entirely unequalled
In any country.
Additional value will also 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. "
of the Annual Digest, now in press.
We also beg leave to refer the reader to the an
nexed recommendations.
BosToN, February, 1852.
Letters Of Recommendation received from Judges of
| the United States Supreme Court.
WAsHINeToN, January 81, 1852.
! GENTLEMEN: My engagements here have not
permitted me to examine particularly your repub
lication of the Err !. lsh Reports in La 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 republished with the
promptness of the volumes already out, and at the
price mentioned, they will be great convenience
to the Bench and the Bar and cannot fail to attrac.
their attention. take pleasure in recommending
them.
am, with much respect, your obedent servant,
Messrs. LITTLE & BaowN.
WAsHINGToN, January 10, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN: In the prompt repub
LEGATION of the "Engsh Reports in Law and
Equity" you tender to the profession a most i'm
portant service The first volume of these Reports
includes decided in the House of Lords
Privy Council, Courts of Equity and Common Law,
from and after Michaclmas Term, 1850; also,
"Crown Cases Reserved, and Cases in the Eccle-
classical 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, executed in most sub.
stantial manner and do credit to the enterprise of
the publishers. | became a subscriber for them us
soon as they were found with the booksellers in the
West, and am convinced, that from THEIR CHEAP
NESS AND EXTENT OF MATTER, THEY MUST SUPER
sxDR, AT LEAST IN THIS COUNTRY, ALL OTHER ENG
| LIsH REPoRTs OF LATE DECISIONS
Very respectfully, your obedicnt servant,
JOHN MCLEAN.
WAsHINGToN, January 26, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN: ! think you have laid
the profession under great obligations, in the
Equity in this country.
The low price at which the volumes are offered,
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 lcss mod-
fed, daily administered by the courts of this coun-
try. And, however modified these systems may
be, it is manifest that theee decisions must shed
great light upon the investigation of most of the
cases arising here.
Your plan, also, will furnish the profession in
this country with the cases IMMEDIATELY AFTER |
THE PUBLICATION IN ENoLAND, A CONDENSATION |
OF THE FIRST IMPORTANCE; for, if the Reports of |
cases 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
prise
SAMUEL NELSON.
WAsHINGToN, 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 |
ment, their early publication, bringing down the |
decisions of all the important Courts to period |
lar Wlthih tnose Oh any court IN our own coun-
try, together with their cheapness, ought to be |
sufficient recommendations to insure their general |
With great respect, am your obedient servant
b. II. CURTIS. |
WAsHIssToN, SUPREME Counr Room,
February II, 1852.
GENTLEMEN: have examined your rcpublica- |
ton of the current English and Common Law |
Reports, and like very much the design and exc |
cution oft.
Neither judge nor lawyer can very we'll do
without the contemporary decisions of the Eng
lish Courts. have found them always so netruc.
tive and useful, that have hitherto read them in |
any form in which they have been published. |
Hereafter will do so in yours.
The Courts in England daily acting upon
cases presenting important and also new features |
of s must kno yI ed0 e hat thew |