The republic., 1852-01-12
ExoIIsu REPORTS IN LAW AND
EQUITY,


this country, has long been seriously felt and &C
knowledged. To meet similar want in EN- gland
the "Larc Journal Reports" and "Ihs Jurist,
which together, report decisions in all the Courts IL
Laic and Equity, within few weeks after thei
delivery, commenced a number of year
since, and have met with the universal approba
ton of the legal profession Their high cost, how
ever, has hitherto prevented their general circu
lation in this country, and their merits are as yc
but little known among US.
The subscribers propose to republish these re
ports IN full as fast MS they appear in England ane
of cases decided in the House of Lords, the Privy
Council the several Courts of Equity, the Court o
Queen's Bench, the Court of Common Pleas, tho
Court of Exchequer and Exchequer Chamber, the
/ Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts the Court o
Bankruptcy, including also the Election cases, the
Crown Cases Reserved, and the Railway and Cana
Case2.
! These reports will be published in numbers or
/ parts, commencing with the decisions OF Michael
mas (November) term 1850, and will be carefully
edited by member of the bar, with notes and :
ferences TO analogous American decisions.
Each number VIII consist of over three hundred
pages closely printed octave the best paper, and
in clear fair type, and will contain a table of cases,
, and n full table Of contents, thus forming com
plete volume by ITSELF as we'll as part of an en-
tire series. Every alternate or second number will
be PACED consecutively from the number imne-
diately preceding, and will contain table of cases,
and of contents 10 both, and thus form complete
volume, ready for binding of ors hund, cd pages.
In each volume the cases of the several Cours will
be found arranged together, and, in point of style
and typographical execution, this series will be
fully equal to the best reports Of England or this
country.
ltis designed to make this a PERMANENT PUBL
CATION, and thus establish nep series of English
Law and Equity Reports, which shall, in all re-
spects, be far in advance OF any other reprint of
English Reports in this country, and which shall
furnish to the American lawyer the decisions of
Westminster Hail. nearly t,co gears before they
could otherwise be obtained, and long before the pub
hcation OF the contemporaneous decisions of most
of our own tribunals.
The price of this publication will be s 10 for
twelve numbers, payable in advance, or for the six
volumes, handsomely ahd uniformly bound in law
sheep, s II.
The parts will be sold separately, il desired, at
s each
Single volume, bound, So %.
Parts L. and H., stitched or Vol L., bound in law
sheep, containing reports of hundred and
eighty eight cases, now ready for delivery.
The following among the opinions of this
work expressed on the publication of the first num-
DER:
Letter from Hon. Millard Fillmore, President of the
United States.
WAsHrsoroN, April l3 1851.
JAMES BRows, ESQ: My DEAR SIR-Some days
since / received, by the hand of the Postmaster
General, the first number of the English Reports
which you propose to republish In this country,
comprising every case reported in England; and
have your letter of the 9th instant, ,inquiring
my opinion OF the enterprise.
While pursuing my profession took deep in
terest in publications Of this kind. The able
judges who have adorned the judicial tribunals of
England, have shed lustre upon the Common
Law and illumined its profoundest depths. / con-
slider no law library complete that does not contain
their principal reports in Law and Equity, and in
their Eccleslastical Courts, AID in Admiralty. For
some years had been in the habit of receiving
these in a 90 condensed form. This condensation
however, consisted, not In abbreviation of each
case but selection from the several cases and
often annoyed by finding a reference to cases
in the Digests, which deemed very important
wholly omitted in the % condensed reports" |
therefore hailed with great pleasure effort which
made some time since to republish the whole.
II the English Reports entire, can be republished
with despatch in this country, at price so low as
to bring them within the reach OF the members of
the bar generally conceive that it will confer
great benefit upon the profession and the judiciary,
and consequently upon the country at large. Know
ing your enterprise, anticipate your success and
can only express the hope that your reward may
be equal to your merits. am your obedicnt
servant. MlLLARD FILLMORE.
From he Neto York Literary Horid,
Messrs. Little & Brown, Of Boston. whose law
with the beet similar issues of the English press,
and in point Of value and importance are inferior
to none in this country, have Just commenced the
publication of legal series, deserving the especial
attention Of the profession throughout the country
The basis Of this SERIES of which the first num-
Der is before US, the Ldtc Journal Reports and
the JUisf, two English serials which communicate
10 the British Bar. within lew weeks after their
delivery, the prominent decisions Of ali the courts
from the House of Lords TO the Court Of Bankrupt-
cy, and other tribunals Of limited but practically
important jurisdiction. This excellent arrange
ment might be followed with great advanta ge in this
country, for the purpose OF obviatng the delay
which necessarily attends the Issuing of the rcgu-
lar volumes Of reports of particular courts, and
We are glad 10 the enterprise Of our legal pub
fishers availing themselves Of il, TO introduce the
English Reports promptly and regularly 10 the pro-
fession. The authority Of Westminster Hall has lost
nothing of its sanction and the permanently high
character OF the English Judiciary gives to their
adjudicatons continued weight and decisive in
huence with courts. Hitherto the difficulty has
been that the reported cases there have grown old
before they could be quoted and applied nere and
there was no wa = in which the current iurispru-
dence and adjudicatons Of the day in the English
courts could be made available by the American
bar except at great expense and by continual vigi-
lance This difficulty Mcssrs. Little & Browns
Reports will remove; the cases decided in the
Queens Bench, the Common Pleas, and the Er.
chequcr Chamber in January, will be ready for de-
livery here in April or May, long before adiudged
cases Of the same date in our own courts appear in
the regular reports in which they arc perpetuated
Nearly two years will thus be gained over the pre-.
sent system, which requires delay until the large
volume Of authorized reports is published on he
other side and has then been reprinted on this.
One advantage o! the present series is, that the
decisions which II gives those Of courts in bdnc
the deliberate judgments Of the bench, and not the
less reliable decisions at Nisi Prius, which, how
ever interesting in many instances, do not carry
with them the same authority and force.
The Reports arc edited by r. II. Bennett and
Chauncy Smith, esq5., Of the Boston bar. and their
systonatis arrangement, and the care with which
the notcs, index, &c, arc prepared, evidence the
thorough manner IN which the proposed series will
DC carried out
In this conuexion VIC take pleasure in adyertipr
10 Mc5srs. Little and Browns other legal pubica.
tions, among which arc included many oftho most
conspicuous and authoritative trentscs of our iurs
prudence. Judge StOry's works, for ming n library
almost Of themselves, and familiar for their high
value and extensive reputation to American read
crs in general, as we'll as 10 the legal profession
have all Issued from their press; have also the
several works OF Professor Grcenleaf Two very
valuable and extensive annual publications are also
Issued by them, the United States Digcst md the
Statutes Gt Large; the latter being the authorized
edition Of the Acts Of Congress; got up in much
better style, both for reference and preservation
than under the old regime Of public printing at
Washington, which included the annual statutes
and sent them forth to the world on thin paper and
IN bad type.
From the Ne,o York Erening Post
Little & Brown, Of Boston, to whose enterprise
the reading public has 40 often been indebted for
the most valuable American and foreign books
propose to publish, by subscription, new series Of
the English Reports in Law and Equity. This Sc
ries will contain all the authoritative decisions Of
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