The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-10-16

To the Legal Pfofessi0n.


TO the Legal Pfofession.
THE FIRST YEAR Of the publication Of the
i English Reports in Lao and Equity closes
be published only in uoiunes, and the issue Of Sc
parate parts will be discontinued. II Is found that
the second part of each volume follows so 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 size
and style as heretofore, and at the same exceed |
ingiy low rate of 50 per volume to permanent sub
scribers. "a, ,.... .
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 the
decisions of ALL the English courts In Il is series
every reported Except nis prius decisons) 10
given in FULL, without condemnation or abrdg- |
ment, and the profession may rely upon having an
accurate republication of the English cases;
1t may be proper 'lso to state, that in England
in this country, but that each series of Reports
is there conducted solely a private enterprise,
by private reporters. And it is believed that for
PRoMPTNEss, ACCURACY, cLEARNEss, and BREviTY~
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
been found more correct. See ths late case Of
Crofts ps. Beale % Eng Rep 4os, ,psers me com
the contsmporaneous reports Of Manning & Gran
ger, to the true pleadings IN former case, toas
directly nuolued. In hatcass, Jercis the Chief Jus
the plea IN sison Kidman, a. reported in Man.
Grang. $40, is not correct. The plea, u is re-
ported in e LaD Journal Reports, is just as my bro
Their 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 AMY other
other series will be omitted in this Arrangements
have been made whereby this series viii contain
nal; in Clark and Finnelly's Reports in the House
of Lords; E.. F. Moore's Reports in the Priyy
Council; the Reports Of Simons, Hare, Beavan, Do
Gex and Small, and Macnaghteh 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 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.
WAsHINeroN, January q 1852.
GENTLEMEN: My engagements here have not
permitted me to examine partc ularly your repub-
LEGATION Of the English Reports in Law and Equity.
But as far as l have been able to look into them,
they appear to be correctly and we'll executed.
And II 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 attract
their attention. ! take pleasure in recommending
them.
l am, with much respect, your obedient servant,
r. B. TANEY.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRows.
WAsHINaroN 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 cases decided in the House of Lords,
Privy Council, Courts of Equity and Common Law,
from and after Micbaemas Term, 1850; also,
"Crown Cases Reserved, and Cases in the Eccle-
siastcal 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:
stantial manner and do credit to the enterprise of
the publishers. became subscriber for them as
soon they found with the booksellers In the
West, and am convinced, that from THEIR CHEAP
NESS AND EXTENT OF MATTER, THEY MUST SUPER
sEpE, AT LEAST IN THIS COUNTRY, ALL OTHER ENG
L1sH REPORTS OF LATE DECISIONS.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JOHN MCLEAN.
WAsHINsToN, January 26, 1852.
Mcssrs. LITTLE & BRowN: think you have laid
the profession under great obligations in the re;
publication of the "English Reports in Law and
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 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 or less modi-
fed daily administered by the courts of this
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, also, will furnish the profession in
this country with the cases IMMEDIATELY AFTER
THE PUBLICATION IN ENGLAND, A CONSIDERATION
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.
lam, with great respect, your obedont servant,
SAMUEL NELSON.
WAeHuNaToN, January 26, 1852.
Messrs LITTLE & BRowN-G Gentlemen: by your
publication of the English Law and Equity Re-
ports, think 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 our own coun-
try, together with their cheapness, ought to be
sufficient recommen to insure their general
use.
With great respect, I am your obedient servant
B. r. CURTIS.
WAsHIsaToN, SUPREME CouRr Room,
February II, 1852.
| GENrLEMEn: 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 lawyer can very well do
without the contemporary decisions of the Eng
lsh Courts. have found them always 30 inetruc-
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 are daily acting upon
cases presenting important and also new features
All of us must acknowledge that they adjudi.
Tod able nd diac uninntin9 acute