The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-10-30
ENGLISH Law AND EQUITY REPORTS.
To tho Legal Profession.

To the Legal Professions.
TINE FIRST YEAR of the publication of the
4 English Reports in Lao and Equity closes
with the sixth volume. Hereafter this series will
be published only in p0limes, and the issue Of
parate parts will be discontinued. II ia found that
the second part of each volume follows 30 rapidly
after the hrst that the advantages of publishing
by parts are unmportant. Each volume will here
after appear once in two months, in the same size
and style as heretofore, and at the same exceed
ingiy low rate of So pervolume to permanent sub
scribers.
The profession need not be reminded that this is
the only series of Reports, either in England or in
this country, which attempts to contain ALL the
decisions of the English courts In Il ia series
every reported Except nis prius decsions) is
given in FULL, without condemnation abridg-,
ment, and the profession may rely upon having an
accurate republication of the English cases.
II may be proper also TO state, that in England
there are no regular reporters authorized by Inv,
in this country, but that each series of Reports
is there conducted solely as private enterprise,
by private reporters. And it is believed that for
| pRoMPTNEss, ACCURACY, CLEARNEss, land Dn EviTY-
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 late case Of
Cros Us. Beale, Is Eng. Rep, 406, tDher6 the
piratiue accuracy Of the Lao Journal Reports aud
the contenporanfous reports Of Manning & Gran
ger, as TO the true pleadings IN former case, toas
directly inuoloed. In that case, yUis the Chief JUS
tice Of tie Common Pleas, observed: at is clear that
tte plea IN Sison Kidman, reported in 3 Man.
& Grang. $40, is not correct The plea, as IL is re.
ported M the La,p Journal Reports just as my bro
Their Iaiie supposes" 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 in the Jurist and Law Jour-
nal; in Clark and Finnelly's Reports in the House
| of Lords; K. F. Moore's Reports in the Priyy
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 Welsby, Hurlstone
and Gordon, in the Common Law Courts; also the
Criminal Reports of Denson, Temple and New,
and E. w. Cox; the Admiralty Reports of Robin
son, and the Ecclesiastical Reports of Robertson
a combination of legal reports entirely unequalled
In any country. ."aa@. I.r'....0
Additional value will also be given to this series
from the fact that, hereafter, they will be dgested
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
nexed recommendations.
BosroN, February, 1852.
Letters Of Recommendation received from JUDGES of
the United States Supreme Court.
WAsHINaroN, January 81, 1852.
GENTLEMEN: My engagements here have not
permitted me to examine particularly your repub-
LEGATION of the Err 81 sh Reports in Law and EQUITY.
But as far as i have been able to look into Them
they appear to be correctly and we'll 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. $685..
Iam' with much respect, your obedien N servant,
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN.
WAsHINeToN, January 10, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE BRowN: In the prompt repub
LEGATION of the English Reports in Law and
Equity" you tender to the profession most i'm
portant service. The first volume Of these Reports
includes cases decided in the House of Lords,
from and after Michaelmas Term, 1850; also,
"Crown Cases Reserved, and Cases in the Eccle-
sastica and Admiralty Courts" And the second,
third, fourth and fifth volumes, which you have re-
courts in 1851.
These Reports, like all other works which pro-
coed from your press, are executed in a most cub
stantia manner, and do credit to the enterprise of
the publishers. l became subscriber for them as
soon they 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.
WAsHNeToN, January 26, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE & BnowN: think you have laid
the profession under great obligations, in the re-
publication of the "English Reports in Law and
Equity" in this country. -.r.s...
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-
porte, of which many of them have heretofore been
deprived. They will thus have a ready access to
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-
Ar,r AnL yEzI
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 IMMEDIA rELY AFTER
THE PUBLICATION IN ENeLAND, A CONSIDERATION
OF THE FIRST IMPORTANCE; for, if the Reports of
cases decided arc of any value, the sooner they
are in the hands of the profession the better I
sincerely hope your encouragement from the bar
will be commensurate with the merit of the enter
prise. -
lam' with great respect, your obediont servant,
SAMUEL NELSON. |
WAsHINoToN, January Is, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN-- Gentlemen: BY your
publication of the English Law and Equity Re- |
ports, think important benefit 10 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 q period
far within those of any Court in our own coun-
try, together with their cheapness, ought to be
sufficient recommendations to insure their general
use.
With great respect, am your obedent servant
b. r. CURTIS.
WAsHINeToN, SUPREME CoURT Room,
February II, 1852. |
GENTLEMEN: have examined your republica |
ton of the current English and Common Law
Reports, and like very much the design and exc.
cution Off .. .-.
Neither judge nor lawyer can very we'll do
lish Courts. have found them always SO nstruc-
tive and useful that have hitherto read them in
any form in which they have been published.
Hereafter will do 30 in yours.
The Courts in England are daily acting upon
cnscs presenting important and also new features.
All of us must acknowledge that they are adudi-
Gated with very able and discriminating acut eness,