The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-07-03
ENGLISH LAW AND EQUITY REPORTS
To the Legal Profession.

ENGLISH LAW AND EQUITY REPORTS
To the Legal Profession.
fJ>HE FIRST YEAR of the publication of the
Aagiish Reports IN LaD and Equity closes
with the sixth volume. Hereafter this series viii
be published only IN coi,tmes, and the issue OF Sc
parate parts will be discontinued. IL Is found that
the second part of each volume follows 30 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 size
and style as heretofore, and at the same exceed
:ngly low rate of So per volume to permanent sub
scribers.
The profession need not be reminded that this ia
the only series OF Reports, either in England or III
this country, which attempts to contain ALL the
decisions OF ALL the English courts In this series
every reported case Except nis pris decisons) is
given in FULL, without condensation or abridg'
hent, and the profession may rely upon having an
accurate republication of the English cases,
II may be proper also to state, that in England
'hcre are no regular reporters, authorized by law,
in this country, but that each series Of Reports
10 there conducted solely private enterprise,
10y private reporters. And it ia believed that for
PRoMPTNEae, ACCURACY, CLEARNEss, land BREyITV-
he essential requisites in any Reports--the Law
Journal and he Jurist Series, not surpassed by
a"y rival series in England, and they have often
been found more correct. See the late case Of
Crofs us. Beale, Is Eng. Rep, 40S,) ,ohert the com
Ddrafiee accuracy Of the Ian Journal Reports, and
he conteIRpOraneotS reports of Manning d Gran
directly impoiDtd. In that case, Jeruis the Chief Jus
nCsf the Common Pleas, Observed: az is clear that
ia" plea IN Sison us. Kidmap as reported in Man.
Grang. $40, is not correct. The plea, as IL is re
ported in The La,c Journal Reports, just as my bro
tier Mauie supp0ses" In addition to the fore goin
points OF superiority in these Reports, they viii
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 Finneliy's Reports in the House
of Lords; Il. F. MooTe's Reports in the Privy
Council; the Reports Of Simons 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
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
nexcd recommendations.
hosToN, 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
iication of the English Reports in Law and Equity
But, far as have been able TO look into them,
they appear to be correctly and well executed.
And if they continue to be repubshed 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 attra.
their attention. take pleasure in recommending
them.
am, with much respect, your obedient servant,
r. B. TANEY.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN.
WAsHINGToN, January 10, 1852.
Mcssrs. LITTLE & BRowN: In the prompt rcpub
lication Of the English Reports in Law and
Equity" you tender to the profession a most i'm
portnnt 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 Mchaelmas Term, 1850; also,
Grown Cases Reserved and Cases in the Ecce-
sastical 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
santial manner, and do credit to tho enterprise of
the publishers. | 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 IN THIS COUNTRY, ALL OTHER ENG
LisH REPORTS OF LATE DECISIONS.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JOHN MCLEAN.
WAsHiNGToN, January 26, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE & BaowN: 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 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 a ready access to
nj N
head of the law, whence have been derived, for the
most part, the several systems more less modi-
fed, daily administered by the courts of this
try. And, however modified these systems may
he, it ia 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, CONSIDERATIONS
OF THE FIRST IMPoRTANCR; for, if the Reports of
cases decided arc 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.
am. with great respect, your obediont servant,
SAMUEL NELSON.
WAsHiNGToN, January 26, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN-- Gentlemen: Ky your
publication of the English Law and Equity Re-
ports, think an 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 chcapness, ought to be
sufficient recommendations to insure their general
With great respect, am your obedicnt servant
b. r. CURTIS.
WAsHINaToN, SUPREME Counr Room,
February H. 1852.
GENTLEMEN: have examined your republica.
ton Of the current English and Common Law
Reports, and like very much the design and exc.
cution oft.
Neither judge nor lawyer can very well do
without the contemporary decisions of the Eng
lish Courts have found them always SO instruc.
tive and useful, that have hitherto read them in
any form in which they hnve been published
Hereafter will do so in you're.
The Courts in England are daily acting upon
cnses presenting important and also features
All of US must acknowledge that they are adjudi-
Gated with very able and discr minating &C
and with great learning.
Wishing your publication every success, I am,
gentlemen, respectfully, your obedient servant,
JAMES NJ. WAYNE.