The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-04-07
ENGLISH Law AND EQUITY REPORTS.



ENGLISH LAW AND EQUITY REPORTs.
To the Legal Profession.
EINHE FIRST YEAR of the publication Of the
i Engiish Reports in La,O and Equity closes
with the sixth volume. Hereafter this series will
be published only in voiunes and the Issue Of
parate parts will be discontinued. II Is found that
the second part OF each volume follows 50 rapidly
after the first, that Abe advantages OF public ching
by parts are unimportant Each volume will here
after appear once in two months, in the same size
and style heretofore, and at the same exceed.
ingly low rate OF $2per volume to permanent sub
scribeTs.
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 ALI the English courts. In Il IL scries
every reported Except nisi yrius decisons) 10
given in FULL, without condensation abridg-
ment, and the profession may rely upon having an
accurate republication of the English cases.
IL may be proper .iso to state, that in England
in this country, but that each series of Reports
is there conducted solely as a private enterprise,
by private reporters. And it 10 believed that for
PROMPT NJ ss, ACCURACY, cLEARNEss, and Ba Ev,Ty--
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 case Of
Crofts Beale Is Eng Rep, 408,) tphere the COM
paratipe accuracy Of he Lao Journal Reports. and
the contemp0raHs0us reports If Manning + Gran
ger, as 10 the true pleadings IN former case,
directly inUoiosd IN that case Jsruis the CHIT jus
tics Of The Common Pleas. o6ssrued: .H is clear thai
The plea in Sison Us. Kidman, reported in Man
& Grang. $40, is not correct The plea, as IL isrs
ported in the LaU Journal Reporfs just as my bro
| TIER Mauls supposes" In addition to the foregoing
points of superiority in these Reports, they viii
be found to contain many valuable cases not
elsewhere reported, while NO 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 f. 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; Adoiphus and Ellie, 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
con, 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 digestcd
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
exed recommendations.
BosToN, February, 1852.
Letters Of Recommendation received 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-
lication of the English Reports in Law and Equity
| But as far as have been able to look into mem
| they appear to be correctly and well executed
Aud 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
their attention. take pleasure in recommending
| them.
am. with much respect, your obedient servant,
| X. Is. TANEY.
NIessrs. LITTLE BRowN.
WAsHISeToN, January l9, 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 decided in the House Of Lords
Privy Council, Courts Of Equity aud Common Law
from and after Michaelmas Term, 1850; also
'sCrown Gases Reserved and Cases in the Eccle.
siastical and Admiralty Courts" And the second
third, fourth and hfth 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 a most sub
santial manner, and do credit to the ENTERPRISE o
the publishers. ] became subscriber for them AZ
soon as they were found with the booksellers in the
West, and am convinced, that from THEIR CHEAP.
NESS AND EXTENT OF mArrKs, THEY MUTT sUPER
SIDE, AT LEAST IN THIS COUNTRY, ALL OTHER Eng
LisH RrPoRrs or LATE DECISIONS
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JOHN MCLEAN.
l. WAsHIseTos, January 90, 1852.
Mcssrs. LITTLE & BRows: i 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 10
the decisions Of courts sitting at the fountain
bead OF the law, whence have been derived, for the
most part, the several systems. or less modi.