The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-11-03
ENGLISH LAW AND EQUITY REPORTS
To the Legal Profession.


. To the Legal Profession.
'INHE FIRST YEAR of the publication OF the
Il English Reports in Laio and Equity closes
with the sixth volume. Hereafter this series will
be published only in uoltimes, and the issue of
parate parts will be discontinued. Ii is found that
| 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
ingiy low rate of 50 per volume to permanent sub
| scribers.
The profession need not be reminded that this 10
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 nist prtus decisons s
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 so TO state, that in England
there are no regular reporters, authorized by law,
as In this country but that each series of Reports
ia there conducted solely as private enterprise,
by private reporters. And it is believed that for
PRoMPrNEss, ACCURACY, cLEARNEss, land BIZ EvITY-
the essential requisites in any Reports-the Law
Journal, and the Juris Series, not 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,) ,ohere the COM
paratiOe accuracy Of the Lato Journal Reports, and
the contemporaneous reports Of Ma,ping f. Gran
ger, as TO the true plsadinss IN a former case,
directly invoiped In that case, JerUis the Chief Jus
tice Of the Common Pleas, observed: at is clear that
the plea IL Sison Kidman, reported in 3 Man.
Grang. $40, is not correct The plea, as IL is re
ported IN The LaD Journal Reports is lust as my bro
ther Maule 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 in the Jurist and Law Jour-
nal; in Clark and Finnely's Reports in the House
of Lords; E. F. Moore's Reports in the Privy
| Council. he RepOrts of H,re
Gex and Small, and Macnaghten 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 f. w. Cox; the Admiralty Reports of Robin
son, and the Eccesiastical Reports of Rober tson-
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 dgesed
in the annual volumes Of the United States Digest.
The first six volumes will be contained in Vol w.
of the Annual Digest, now in press.
We also beg leave to refer the reader to the an
exed recommendations.
BosToN, February, 1852
Letters Of Recommendation received from Judges of
The United States Supreme Court
WAsHINGroN, January 81, 1852
GENTLEMEN: My engagements here have not
permitted me to examine particularly your repub-
LEGATION of the Err sh 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
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.
Messrs. LITTLE s. BRowN.
WAsHINGroN, January 10, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN: In the prompt repub
LEGATION of the English Reports in Law and
Equity" you tender to the profession a most i'm
porant 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 CaseO Reserved, and Cases in the Eccle-
siastical 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.
santia manner, and do credit to the enterprise of
the publishers. | became subscriber for them Us
soon they found with the booksellers in the
West, and am convinced, that from THEIR CHEAP
NESS AND EXTENT OF MATTER. THEY MUST SUPER
eEpE, AT LEAST IN THIS COUNTRY, ALL OTHER ENG |
LIsH REPORTS OF LATE DECISIONS.
Very respectfully, your obedent servant,
JOHN MCLEAN.
WASHING TON, January 26, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE BRowN: | 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 English Re-
ports, of which many of them have heretofore been
deprived. They will thus have a 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 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, aso will furnish the profession in
this country with the cases IMMEDIATELY AFTER
THE PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLAND, A CONSIDERATIONS
OF THE FIRST IMPORTANCE; for, if the Reports Of
cases decided 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.
am, with great respect, your obediont servant,
SAMUEL NELSON.
WAsHINGToN, January 26, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN- Gentlemen: I3y 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 recommendations to insure their general
use.
With great respect, am your obedient servant
b. r. CURTIS
wAsHrseTos SUPREME CoURr Room,
February II, 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 we'll do
without the contemporary decisions of the Eng
lish 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 daily acting upon
cases presenting impoItan and also features.
A llDfil acbI Lode thni