The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-12-29
ENGLISH Law AND EQUITY REPORTS
To the Legal Profession.

| To the Legal Profession.
THE FIRST YEAR of the publication of the
with the sixth volume. Hereafter this series will
be published only in toi,aes, and tie issue Of de-!
paratc parts will be discontinued II is found that
the second part of each volume follows 30 rapidly
after the fret, 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 rs heretofore, and at the same exceed.
ingiy low rate of 80 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 the English courts. In Il is series
every reported case Except nisi rus decisions) is
given in FULL, without condensation abrdg-
nent, and the profession may rely upon having an
accurate republication of the English cases.
II may be proper .lso to state, that In England
there are no regular reporters, authorized by law
as in this country, but thateach series Of Reports
Is there conducted solely as private enterprise,
by private reporters. And 1t 10 believed that for
raomrTN1ss. ACCURACY, oLEAaNlss, and sREviry--
the essential REQUISITES In any Reports-the Law
Journal, and the Jurist Series not surpassed by
any rival series in England, and they have often
Crofs Beale, Is Eng. Rep, 4os,) ,ohere tie com
paratioe accuracy Of the Lato Journal Reports, and
the contemporaneous reports Of Manning e. Gran
GER as TO the true pleadings IN former case, .oas
tics Of the Common Pleas observed: 1T is CLEAR that
the plea ia Sison ps. Ridman, ds reported in Man.
Grang $40, Is not correct The plea as it is re.
ported in the La,o Journal Reports, just my bro
points of superiority in these Reports, they will
be found to contain many valuable cases not
elsewhere reported, while NO Gaze 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; +. F. Moore's Reports in the Privy
Council; the Reports of Simons, Hare, Beavan, De
Gov ar1S md MAJ oerht md GorIn 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 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 unequalled
in any country.
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 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 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 Err ish Reports in Law and Equity.
But as far as | have been able TO look into them,
And il they continue to be repubished with the
promptncss of the volumes already out, and at the
price mentioned, they will bo a great convenience
to the Bench and the Ber, and cannot fail to atrac,
their attention. take pleasure in recommending
them.
l am, with much respect, your obedient servant,
r. B. TANEY,
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN.
WAsHIEsToN, 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 caseo decided in the House of lords,
Privy Council, Courts OF Equity and Common Law,
from and after Micbaelmas Term. 1850: also.
..vwu cases Reseryed and Cases in the Eccle.
sinstical 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
stanal manner, and do credit to the enterprise of
the publishers. ] became a subscriber for them
soon 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
sEhn; At LEAST IN THIS COUNTRY; ELL OTHER Esq
LIsH kEPoRrs LATE DECISIONS.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JOHN MCLEAN.