The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-10-19
ENGLISH LAW AND EQUITY REPORTS.
To the Legal Profession.

ENGLISH LAW AND EQUITY REPORTS.
To the Legal Profession.
THE FIRST YEAR of the publication of the
i English Reports in LaW aud Equity closes
with the sixth volume. Hereafter this series will
be published only tn uotmes, 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 same size
and style as heretofore, and at the same exceed
ingly low rate Of 50 perv volume to permanent sub
scribers.
The profession need not be reminded that this is
the only series of Reports, either in England in
this country, which attempts to contain ALL the
decisions of the English courts. In Il 10 series
every reported case Except nis prius decisons) is
given in FULL, without condemnation or abridg-
ment, and the profession may rely upon having an
| accurate republication Of the English cases.
II may be proper also 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 a private enterprise,
by private reporters. And it is believed that for
PRomPTNEss, ACCURACY, cLEARNEss, land BREvITY-'
the essential requisites in any Reports-the Law
Journal, and the Jurst Series, not surpassed by
any rival series in England, and they have often
been found more correct. See the late Of
Crofs us. Beale, Is Eng Rep, 4Os,) tDhert the CON-
paratiue accuracy Of the La,o Journal Reports, and
the contenporaneous reports Of Manning f. Gran
ser, as to the true pleadngs IN former case, .oas
directly involved. In that case, Jerois the Chief JUS
tice Of the Common Pleas, observed: H is clear that
the plea in Sison Us. Kdman, as reported in Man.
Grang. $40, is not correct. The plea, as IL isre
ported in the Lau Journal Reports, just my bro
Lher Male suppose" 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
other series will be omitted in this. Arrangements
have been made whereby this series will contain
all the reported in the Jurist and Law Jour-
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of Lords; e. F. Moore'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 Wesby, 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 Rober tson-
a 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 dgested
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
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 particularly your repub
LEGATION of the En- fish Reports in Law and Equity.
But as far have been able to look into them,
they appear to be correctly and we'll 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 cow enience
to the Bench and the Bar, and cannot fail to attrac.
their attention. take pleasure in recommending
them.
am, with much respect your obedient ss1yant,
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN.
WAsHINaroN, January 10, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE BRows: 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 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 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.
stantial manner, and do credit to the enterprise Of
the publishers. ] became a subscriber for them
soon as they were found with the booksellers in the
West and am convinced, that from THEIR CHEAP
TESS 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.
WAsHINsroN, January 26, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE 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 ready access to
the decisions of courts sitting at the fountain
hen 0f ne whence derived.
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
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 PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLAND, A CONSIDERATION
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
will be Commensurate with the merit of the enter.
prise.
1 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 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 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
With great resrcct am your obedient servant
b. r. CURTIS.
wAsHlNaroN, SUPREME Court Room,
February II, 1852.
GEsTLEMET: have examined your republca.
ton of the current English and Common Law
cution oft
Neither judge nor lawyer can very well do
without the contemporary decisions of the Eng
lish Courts. have found them always go instruc-
tive and useful that have hitherto read them in
any form in which they have been published.
Hereafter will do 30 in yours.
The Courts in England are daily acting upon
cases presenting important and also new features
All of us must &C knowledge that they are adjudi-