The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-07-20

Tile REPU BLlC,
ENGLISH LAW AND EQUITY REPORTS
| To the Legal Profession.
THE FIRST YEAR of the publication of th
i English Reports IN LaD and Equity close
| with the sixth volume. Hereafter this series vii
bc published only IN volumes, aud the issue OF sc
parate parts will be discontinued. IT ia found tina
the second part OF each volume follows go 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 szt
| and style as heretofore, and at the same exceed
| ingly low rate Of So pervolume to permanent sub
| scribers. .N....'. y. : .,'. '..
The profession need not be reminded that this il
the only series of Reports, either in England or in
| this country, which attempts to contain ALL thi
decisions Of the English courts. In ttis series
every reported case Except nsi prius decisions) II
| given in PULL, without condensation or abridg
ment, and the profession may rely upon having al
| accurate republication Of the English cases. .r
Itmay 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
Is there conducted solely ms private enterprise
by private reporters. And it is believed that for
| PRoMPTSEss, ACCURACY, cLEARNEss, land BREviTY-
the essential requisites in any Reports-the Law
journal and the Juris SerieT, are not surpassed BY
| any rival series in England, and they have often
| been found more correct. See the late case Q,
Crofts Beale 6 Eng Rep, 40S tchert the com
paraiipe accuracy Of The La,o Journal Reports ana
| he contfmporanfous reports Of Manning r Gran
ger as 10 the true pieGdings M former case, toa'
directly npolusd In tatcase, JerDfs. the Chief jus
ticsof the Common Pleas, obssrped: at is clear thai
| tie plea u Sison Kidman, reported in Man
s. Grang SlO is not correct The plea, as IL is re
ported IN The Lato Journal Reports, is just as my bro.
her Mauie 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
| wi he ed N m
| 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. Moorn's Reports in the Privy
| Council; the Reports Of Sinons, Hare, Beavan, De
| Gex and Small, and Macnaghten and Gordon, 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
a combination of legal reports entirely uncqualed
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, 1882.
/ GENrLEMEN: My engagements here have not
permitted me to examine particularly your repub-
LEGATION of the English Reports in Law and Equity
But, far have been able to look into them,
they appear to be correctly aud 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 great convenience
to the Bench and the Bar and cannot fail to attracI
| their attention. take pleasure in recommending
| them.
lam, with much respect, your obedient servant,
| r. b. TANEY.
Messrs. LITTLE s. BRowN.
WAsHINGToN, January l9, 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,
| Privy Council, Courts OF Equity and Common Law,
| from and after Michaemas Term, 1850; also
Grown Cases Reserved, and Cases in the EccIe,
| siastical 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 oil
| the publishers. became subscriber for them as
soon 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
|
Very respectfully, your obedient servant.
| JOHN MCLEAN.
WAsHINeToN, January 90, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN: l 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 BILE 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 ready access t.
| the decisions of courts sitting at the fountain
| head of the law, whence have been derived for the
most part the several systems, more or less modi.
fed, daily administered by the courts of this coun.
| try. And. however modified these systems may
| he it ia manifest that these decisions must shed
| great Night upon the investigation of most of the
| cases arising here.
Your plan, also, will furnish the profession in
this country with the cases IMMEDIATELY Aztec
THE PUBLICATION IN ENoLANp, A coNsIpEaATIos
| OF FIRST IMPORTANCE; for, if the Reports o
| cases decided are of any value, the sooner they
are in the hands Of the profession the better.
| sincerely hope your encouragement from the ba
will be commensurate with the merit of the enter
prise.
lam, with great respect, your obedont servant
i SAMUEL NELSON.
| WAsHINGToN, January 26, 1852.
| Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN-- Gentlemen: By YOU
| publication of the English Law and Equity Re
ports, think an important benefit is conferred OF
the legal profession in. this country. The fidelity
with which these Reports appear to have been thu
far made, their compact and convenient arrange
lnent, their early publication, bringing down thu
decisions of all the important Courts to pero,
far within those of any Court in our own coun
try, together with their cheapness, ought to b.
| sufficient Recommendations to insure their genera
! use. 5..t...
With great respect, am your obedient servant
B. II. CURTIS.
| WAsHINeToN, SUPREME CouRr Room,
February II, 1852.
GENTLEMEN: have examined your republica
ton of the current English and Common Law
Reports, and like very much the design and exc
cuton of it.
Neither judge nor lawyer very well d.
without the contemporary decisions of the Eng
lish Courts. ! have found them always 80 instruc
tive and useful, that / have hitherto read them il
any form in which they have been published
Hereafter ] will do SO in yours.
The Courts in England daily acting upol
cases presenting important and also new features
All of us must acknowledge that they adjudi
Gated with very able and discriminating acutoness
and with great learning.
Wishing your publication every success, am