The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-09-09
ENGLISH LAW AND EQUITY REPORTS.

ENGLISH LAW AND EQUITY REPORTS.
To the Legal Profession.
TINE FIRST YEAR of the publication Of the
l. English Reports IN Lato and Equity closes
with the sixth volume. Hereafter this series will
be published only IN poltmes, and the issue OF SC
parae parts will be discontinued: 1t is found that
the second part of each volume follows 30 rapidly
after the first, that the advantages OF pubhshlng
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
ingly low rate of So ervolumc to pcrmanentsoo-
scribers.
The profession need not be reminded that this 10
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 Lis series
every reported Except nisi prius decisons) s
given in FULL, without condensation or abridg-
ment, and the profession may rely upon having an
| accurate republication OF the English cases
1t may be proper also to state, that In England
there no regular reporters, authorized by law,
in this country, but that each series of Reports
is there conducted solely as a private enterprise,
by private reporters. And it ia believed that Tor
PRomprNEss, ACCURACY, cLEAnNEss,a land BnEviTY-
| the essential requisites in any Reports-the Law
Journal and the Juris Series, are not surpassed by
any rival series in England, and they have often
been found more correct See the late case ~
Cros Beale, Is Eng Rep, 4OS,) toLsrt the com,
parahpe accuracy Of the La,o Journal Reports, and
the eontemporantous reports Of Manning r. Gran
ger, TO the true pleadings IN former case, ioas
directly npoiped. In atcass, Jeruis the Chit Jus
tics Of the Common Pleas, o6serosd at IS clear that
the plea IN Sison Kidman, as reported IN Man.
Grang. $40, not correct The plea, as u rs re-
ported in the LatD Journal Reports just as my bro
tter 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
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 Prlvy
Council; the Reports Of Simons, Hare, Beavan, De
Gex and Small, and Macnaghten and Gordon, in
| the Courts of Equity; Adophus and Ellis, Man
ming, Granger and Scott, and Welsby, huristone
and Gordon, in tho Common Law Courts; also the
Criminal Reports of Denson, Temple and New,
and E. WNCox; the Admiralty Reports Of Robin
son, and the Ecclesiastical Reports of Robertson
| a combination of legal rePortsentirey unequalied
In any country.
Additional value will ALEC be given to this series
from the fact that, hereafter, they will be dgested
in the annual volumes of the United States Digest.
The frat 81 4 volumes will be contained In Vol. "
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 receiusd 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 English Reports in Law and Equity.
But as far al l have been able to look into them,
| they appear to be correctly and 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 atrarl
their attention. take pleasure in recommending
| them.
am, with much respect, your obedient servant,
r. b. TANEY,
Messrs. LITTLE & 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
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 Michaelmas Term, 1850; also,
| "Crown Cases 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 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. I became a subscriber for them
soon as they 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 THIS COUNTRY, ALL OTHER ENG
LIsH REPoRTs OF LATE DECISIONS.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JOHN MCLEAN.
WASHINGTON, January Is, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN: l think you have laid
the profession under great obligations, in the re-
publication of the "Engsh 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 mod-
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 also, will furnish the profession in
| this country with the cases IMMEDIATELY AFTER
| THE PUBLICATION IN ENGLAND, A CONSIDERATION
OF THE FIRST IMPoRTANoE; 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. aA
am, with great respect, your obediont servant,
SAMUEL NELSON.
WAsHINGToN, January 26, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN- Gentlemen: BY your
publication of the English Law and Equity Re-
ports, think important benefit ia conferred on
the legal profession in this country. The fidelity
with which these Reports appear to have been thus
lar mace, tuelT COulpdCt anu CONVENIENT arrange
ment, their early publication, bringing down the
decisions of all the important Courts to period
| far within those of any Court in our 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.
WAsHINGToN, SUPREME CouRT Room,
| February II, 1852.
GEsTLEMEN have examined your repubca.
ton of the current English and Common Law
Reports, and like very much the design and exc.
| cution of it.
Neither judge nor lawyer can very well dc
| without the contemporary decisions of the Eng
lish Courts. have found them always so ihstruc-
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 upor
cases presenting important and also new features
All of us must acknowledge that they adjudi
Gated with very able and discriminating &C uteness
| and with great learning.
Wishing your publication every success, am
gentlemen, respectfully, your obedient servant,
| JAMES NJ. WAYNE.