The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-11-08
ENGLISH Law AND EQUITY REPORTS
To the Legal Profes .ion.


To the Legal Profession.
'lNHE FIRST YEAR Of the publication Of the
Il English Reports IN Lap and Equity closes
With the sixth volume. Hereafter this series will
be published only in UoIames, and the Issue of Sc
parate parts will be discontinued. II ia found that
the second part of each volume follows 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
ingy low rate of So pervolume to permanent sub
scribers. s
The profession need not be reminded that this is
the only series of Reports either in England or In
this country, which attempts to contain ALL the
decisions OF the English courts. In tits series
every reported case Except nisi prus decisons) s
given in FULL, without condensation abridg-
nent, and the profession may rely upon having an
accurate republication of the English cases.
IL may be proper LAO to state, that in England
there are no regular reporters, authorized by law,
"a 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
the essential requisites in any Rcports-the Law
Journal and the Jurst Series, are not surpassed by
any rival series in England, and they have often
been found more correct. See The late case of
Crofts Beale Is Eng. Rep, 40s,) uohers he com
parafioe accuracy Of the Lao Journal Reports, aud
fhe confemporaneous reports Of Manning r Gran
ger, as 10 the tyie Pieadngs IN former case,
directly inpolUed In that case, Jerois the Chief Jus
tice Of the Common Pleas obserued .'H is clear that
ns plea in Sison Kidman, reported in 3 Man.
Grang. $40, not correct. The plea, as IL is re
ported m Tie La,O Journal Reportsis Just my bro
tter Maule st.pposes 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 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 Finnellys Reports in the House
Of Lords; f. F. Moore's Reports in the Privy
| he pf Hal n
Gex and Small, and Macnaghten and Gordon, in
The Courts of Equity; Adolphus and Ellis, Man
| ming, Granger and Scott, and Welsby, Hurstone
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
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 leaye 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, 1852.
GENTLEMEN: My engagements here have not
permitted me to examine particularly your repub
LEGATION Of the Err lish 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 fail attrac,
| their attention. take pleasure in recommending
| them. I"7... ant. ttH. ... .t.
lam, with much respect, your obe e servant,
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN.
WAsHINaToN, January l9, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRows: In the prompt repub
LEGATION Of the English Reports in Law and
Equity" you tender to the profession a most inn
portant service. The frat volume of these Reports
includes decided in the House of Lords
Privy Council, Courts of Equity and Common Law,
from and after Michaelmas Term, 1850; also,
"Crown Casee 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 cases decided in the above
courts in 1851. ,.- ~. -....
These Reports, like all .other works which pro-
coed from your press, are executed in a most sub
stantal MANNER and do credit to the enterprise of
the publishers. ] became subscriber for them as
as they were found with the booksellers in the
West, and am convinced that from THEIR CHEAP
NESS AND EXTENT OF MATTER, THEY MUST SUPER
sKpE, AT LEAST IN THIS COUNTRY, ALL OTHER ENG
LIsH REPoRTs OF LATE DECISIONS.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JOHN MCLEAN.
.. WAsHINGToN, January Is, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE s BRowN: 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 q 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, mare or less nlod-
fed, daily administered by the courts of this coun-
fru And hnu rnnd fAad xbneo
be, it is manifest that these decisions must she'd
great light nnen The investigation of most Of the
yrases arising here. -. ,.' '..z
Your plan, also, will furnish the profession in
THE PUBLICATIONS IN ENeLANp, A CoNsIpsnArroN
OF THE FIRST IMPORTANCE; for, if the Reports of
cases decided are Of any value, the sooner they
are in the hands of the profession the better !
sincerely hope your encouragement from the bar
viii be commensurate with the merit of the enter.
prise. y.s, III ~ ~. - ". ~ . - -
lam, with great respect, your obedont servant,
$780, SAMUEL NELSON.
WAsHINeros, : January &c, 1852
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN- Gentlemen: By 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 auge-
ment, their early publication, bringing down the
decisions of all the important Courts to q period
far within those of any Court in our own coun-
try, together with their cheapness, ought to be
Sufficient recommendations toinspre their general
uaR. r- 1871. -
With great respect, am your obedient servant
#" sI b. X. CURTIS.
.." WAsHINeToN, SUPREME CouRr Room,
..a' February II, 1852.
GEsTLEMEN: have examined your republica-
ton of the current English and Common Law
Reports, and like very much the design and exc.
cution Of II. tsahl z '',.
Neither judge nor lawyer very we'll do
without the contemporary decisions of the Eng
lish Courts. ] have found them always so instruc-
tive and useful, that l have hitherto read them in
any form in which they have been published.
Here's ftcr will do 80 in yours. 80.
The Courts in England are daily acting upon
cases presenting important and also new features
All of US must acknowledge that they are adiudi.