The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-11-22
ENGLISH Law AND equity HrpoRTs


ENGLISH Law AND EQUITY HEPORT0
To the Legal Profession.
THE FIRST YEAR o. the publication of tn,
English Reports in Lao and Equity close,
With the sixth volume Hereafter this series vii
be published only IN uoitsmes. and the issue Of se
parate parts will be discontinued. II 10 found tina
the second part of each volume follows 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 size
and style as heretofore, and at the same exceed
ingly low rate of 80 per volume to permanent sub
scribers
The profession need not be reminded that this ii
the only series of Reports, either in England or IN
this country, which attempts to contain ALL the
decisions of ALL the Enaiis courts In Il 10 series
every reported case Except nisi prius decsions)
given in FULL, without condemnation or abridR-
nent, and the profession may rely upon having an
accurate republication of the English cases.
[ IL may be proper $50 to state that in England
there are no regular aepSr!ors authorizes BY law
Is there conducted solely rs a private enterprise
by private reporters. And it 70 believed that for
PaoMPrNcss, ACCURACY, cLEARNEss, and BR EvIrY-
the essential requisites in any Reports-the Law
Journal, and the Juris, serie, surpassed by
any rival series in England, and they have often
been found more correct. See the late case 81
Crofts os Bsaie, Is Eng Rep, 4OS tohers The
p"rnfips accuracy Of The La'o Jo,irn u Reports, and
The contemporan, Gus reports Of Manning f. Gran
ger, as TO the trur plsddings IN Former case,
directly 'uoiUsd In that case, Je'rfs the ChiJ JUS
Common Ffe06 ! mai
The plea ~ Sison Kidman, as reported in Man
& Grang. 80, is not correct. The plea, as IL is
ported me La'0 journal Reports, just as nay bro
hier Mauie 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 In ANY other
other series will be omitted in this. Arrangements
have been made whereby this series will contain
all the reported cases in the Jurist and Law Jour.
nall in Clark and Finnelly's Reports in the House
OF Lords; E. F. Moore's Reports in the Privy
Council; the Reports of Simons, Hare, Beavan, De
Gex and Small, and Macnaghten and Gordon, in
the Courts of Equity; Adolphus and Ellis, Man
ming. Granger and Scott, and Wesby, Hurlstone
and Gordon, in the Common Law Courts; also the
Criminal Reports of Denison, Temple and New
and f. w. Cox; the Admiralty Reports of Robin
son, and the Ecclesiastical Reports of Robertson
combination Of legal reports entirely unequalled
In any country.
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 tho reader to the an.
ncxed recommendations.
BosToN, February, 1852.
Letters Of Recommendation received from Judges OF
me United STATES Supreme Court. l..
WAsHIsaroN, January q, 1882
GENrLEMrs: My engagements here have no,
permitted me to examine partic ularly your rcpub-
LEGATION of the Err. ish 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 republished with the
promptness of the volumes already out, and at the
price mentioned, they will be a great convenience
their attention. take pleasure in recommending
them.
am, with much respect, your obedient servant,
X. b. TANEY.
Messrs. LITTLE g. BnowN.
WAsHINsroN, January l9, 1852.
Mesers. LITTLE Il BRowN: In the prompt repub
LEGATION of the "Euglish Reports in Law and
Equity" you tender to the profession a most i'm
port Mt service The first volume of these Reporte
includes cases decided in Ihe House Of lords
Privy Council, Courts of Equity and Common Law,
from and after Michaelnas Term, 1850; also,
"Crnwn Caseo Reserved. aud Cases in the Eccle-
sasticol am Admiralty Courts" And the second,
third, fourth and fifth volumes, which you have re-
published, include the cases decided in the above
courtsin 1851.
These Reports, like all other works which pro.
coed from your press, are executed in most sub
santial manner and do credit TO the enter rise Of
the publishers. ! became a subscriber for them as
soon they we're found with the booksellers in the
West, and am convinced, that from THEIR CHEAP
NESS AND EXTENT OF MATTER, They MUST SUPER
sEDE At LEAST IN THIS COUNTRY, ALL OTHER ENG
LIsH REPoRTs OF LATE DECISIONS
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JOHN MCLEAN.
WAsHINsroN, January 26, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE & BaowN: think you have laid
the profession under great obligations, in the re-
publication Of the "English Reports in Law and
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 Epglish Re.
ports, of which many of them have heretofore been
|, deprived. They will thus have a ready access to
the dec sions of courts sitting at thu fountain
head Of the law, whence have BEEN derived, for the
most part the several systems, more less modi-
fed daily administered by the courts of this coun-
try. And. however modified these systems may
be, it is manifest that these 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 ENeLAND, A coNslprRAT TON
OF THE FIRST IMPoRrANCE; 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 ofthe enter
prise.
am, with great respect, your obedont servant,
SAMUEL NELSON.
WAsHINaToN, january rs, 1852.
MessrB. LITTLE & BRowN- Gentlemen: Fly 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 a period
far within those of any Court in own coun-
try, together with their cheapness, ought to be
sufficient recommendation to insure their general
use.
With great respect, am your obedent servant
b. r. CURTIS.
wAsHlsoros, Sui. lsME CoUar ROOM,
I February II, 1852.
GESTLEMEN: have examined your republica.
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 well do
without the contemporary decisions of the Eng.
iish Courts have found them always 30 instruc.
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 are daily acting upon
cases presenting important and also new features.
All of us must acknowledge that they are adjudi-