The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-07-13
ENGLISH LAW AND EQUITY REPORTS
To the Legal Profession.

TIME FIRST YEAR Of the publication of the
Il English Reports IN LaD and Equity closes
with the sixth volume. Hereafter this series will
be published only in polunes, and the issue of Sc
parate parts will be discontinued 1t ia found that
the second part of each volume follows SO rapidly
after the frat, that the advantages OF publishing
by parts are unimportant. Each volume viii here
after appear once in two months, in the same size
and style as heretofore, and at the same exceed
ingly low rate Of So per volume to permanent SUBJ
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 ALL the English courts In this series
every reported case Except ns prius decisions is
given in FULL, without condensation or 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 law,
ain this country, but that each series OF Reports
10 there conducted solely as a private enterprise,
by private reporters. And it is believed that for
PRoMPrN Ess, ACCURACY, cLEARNEss, and BREviTY-
the essential requisites in any Reports-the Law
Journal and the Jurist Serie' are not surpassed by
any rival series in England, and they have often
been found more correct. See the late case Of
Crofts Beale, Is Eng Rep, 40S) tDhert the com
paratire accuracy Of the LaD Journal Reports, and
the contemporan'ous reports Of Manning f. Gran
ger as TO the true pleadings in former case, ,oas
directly inuolped. In hatcase Jerus, the Chief Jus
lice Of The Common Pleas, obserued: "L is clear that
The plea IN Sison us. KidmaD, reported in Man.
VI,
ported in the Lao Journal Reports, just my bro
Mer 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-
nal; in Clark and Finnely's Reports in the House
| of Lords; f. F. Moore's Reports in the Privy
Council; the Reports Of sinons. Hare, Beayan, De
Gex and Small, and Macnag hten and Gordon, in
the Courts of Equity; Adophus and Ellis, Man
ming, Granger and Scott, and Welsby Hurlstone
and Gordon, in the Common Law, Courts; also the
Criminal Reports of Denison, Temple and New,
and E. w. Cox; the Admiralty Reports of Robin
son, and the Ecclesiastical Reports of Robertson
combination of legal reports entirely unequalcd
in any country.
Additional value will also be given to this series
from the fact that hereafter they will be digested
in the nnual volumes 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
BosToN, February, 1852.
Letters of Recommendation receiped from Judges of
the United States Supreme Court.
:. WAsHlNGToN, 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,
And if they continue to be repubiished with the
promptness of the volumes already out, and at the
price mentioned, they will be great convenience
the Bench and the Bar and cannot fail to attrac>
their attention take pleasure in recommending
them.
! am, with much respect, your obedient servant
r. b. TANEY.
Messrs. LITTLE BRowN.
WAsHIsaToN, January IS, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE BRowN: In the prompt repub
LEGATION of the English Reports in Law and
Equity" you tender to the profession q most i'm
portant service. The first volume of these Reports
includes cases decided in the House of Lords
Privy Council, Courts of Equity and Common Law,
from and after Michaelmas Term, 1850; ALSO
"Crown Cases Reserved, and Cases in the Ecce-
sastical 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, are executed in most sub
stantial manner, and do credit to the enterprise OF
| the publishers. became subscriber for them as
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
sEDE, AT LEAST IN THIS COUNTRY, ALL OTHER ENG
| LIsH RsPoRTs OF LATE DECISIONS.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
| JOHN MCLEAN.