The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-05-11
ENGLISH Law AND EaurrY Reports.
To the Legal ProfessIon.

ENGLISH LAW AND EQUITY REPORTS.
| To the Legal Profession.
TINE FIRST YEAR of the publication of the
| i English Reports in La,o and Equity closes
with the sixth volume. Hereafter this series will
| be published only ia Uoumes, and the issue Of Sc
parate parts will be discontinued II is found that
the second part Of each volume follows 30 rapidly
after the first, that the advantages Of publishing
by parts are unimporant Each volume will here
after appear once in two months, in the same size
and style as heretofore and at the exceed
ingy low rate of So per volume to permanent sub
scribers.
The profession need not be reminded that this is
the only series OF Reports, either in England in
| this country, which attempts to contain ALL the
decisions Of ALL the English courts In Il is series
every reported case Except nsi prius decisons) is
| given in PULL, without condensation or abridg-
Inent, 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 law
as in this country but that each series of Reports
| 10 there conducted solely rs private enterprise,
by private reporters. And il Is believed that for
PRoMPTNEss, ACCURACY, cLEARNEss, and EyITY--
the essential requisites in any Reports--the Law
Journal, and the Jurist Series, surpassed by
any rival series in England, and they have often
been found more correct. See the late case Of
Crofts ps Bealc, 6 Eng. Rep 1857 tphere The com
paratipe accuracy Of the La,u Journal Reports, and
the contemporaneous reports Of Manning 8. Gran
ger, as TO the true pieddings IN former case, uas
directly inpOlped. In that case Jer uis The Chit Jus.
lice Of the Common Pleas observed: IN is clear that
he plea ~ slson rs kldman, as reported in Man
& Grang. $40, not correct, The plea as IL is re-
ported M he Lam Journal RPorts just as my bro
ther Maiae 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 cases in the Jurist and Law Jour
nal; in Clark and Finnelly's Reports in the House
Of Lords; T.. 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
a combination of legal reports entirely uneoualled
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 frat 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.
- WAsHINGToN, January 81, 1852
| GENTLEMEN My engagements here have not
! permitted me TO examine particularly your repub.
LEGATION Of the English 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
to the Bench and the Bar, and cannot fail to attract
their attention. take pleasure in recommending
| them.
| am. with much respect, your obedicnt servant.
X. b. TANEY.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN
! WAsHINoroN, 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
pr1vy Council, Courts OF Equity and Common Law,
from and after Michaelmas Term, 1850; also.
Grown Cases Reserved, and Cases in the EccIe.
siastcal and Admiralty Courts" And the second.
third, fourth and fifth volumes, which you have re-
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
stantial manner and do credit to the entcrprise of
the publishers l became a subscriber for them AZ
soon as they found with the booksellers in the
West, and am convinced that from THEIR CHEAP
NESS AND EXTENT OF MATTER, THEY MUST SUPER
sEpE, AT LEAST IN THIS COUNTRY, ALL OTHER Eng
LIsH REPORTS OF LATE DECISIONS
Very respectfully, your obcdient servant,
JOHN MCLEAN.
WAsHISoToN, January %, 1852
Messrs. LITTLE BnowN: think YOU have laid
the profession under great obligations, in the re.
Puoncaton OIL 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
nsh their libraries with the current English Re
ports, of which many of them have heretofore been
deprived. They will thus have n ready acccs= TO
the decisions Of courts sitting at the fountain
head oil the law, whence have been derived, for the
most part the several systems, more or less ,nodi
fed, daily administered by the courts OF this coun-
try. And. however modified these systems may
be, il ia 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
TINE PUBLICATIONS IN ESGLASD, A coNsIDERArIoN
OF THE FInsT IMPORTANCE; for, il the Reports VI
cases decided are Of any value, the sooner they
arc in the hands OF the profession the better. 1
sincerely hope your encouragement from the bar
will be commensurate with the merit OF the enter.
prise.
am, with great respect, your obediont servant,
SAMUEL NELSON.
WAsHINoToS, January &c, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE BRows- 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 20 period
far within those Of any Court in our own coun-
try, together with their chcapncss, ought to be
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 10 insure their general
use.
With great respect, am your obedient servant,
b. X. CURTIS.
WAsHINoToS, SUPREME CouRr ROOM,
February H. 1852.
GENTLEMEs: have examined your republica-
ton OF the current English and Common Law
Reports, and like very much the design and exc
cution Of IT,
Neither judge nor lawyer very well do
without the contemporary decisions Of the Eng
lish Courts have found them always 30 inetruc-
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
All OF us must acknowledge that they arc adiudi-
Gated with very nble and disc Eliminating acute
and with great learning.
Wishing your publication every success am
gentlemen, respectfully, your obcdicnt servant,
JAMES NJ. WAYNE.
Mcssrs LITTLE & BRowN, Boston Massachusetts