The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-08-06
ENGLISH LAW AND EQUITY REPORTS.
To the Legal Profession.

ENGLISH LAW AND EQUITY REPORTS
To tho Legal Profession.
rTNHE FIRST YEAR of the publication of the
| l. English Reports in Lao and Equity closes
with the sixth volume. Hereafter this series will
be published only in uoiunss, and the issue of
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
ingly low rate of 81 per volume to permanent sub
| scrbers.
The profession need not be reminded that this is
the only series of Reports, either in Eng or in
this country, which attempts to contain ALL the
decisions of ALL the English courts In Il Is serles
every reported Except nis prius decisons) is
| given in FULL, without condensation or abridg-
| ment, and the profession may rely upon having an
| accurate republication OF the English cases.
| Il may be proper ESQ to state, that in England
| there regular reporters, authorized by law
as in this country, but that each series OF Reports
is there conducted solely as private enterprise,
| by private reporters. And it 10 believed that for
| PRoMPTNEss, ACCURACY, cLEARNEss,a nd pREViTY-
| the essential requisites in any Reports-the Law
Journal, and the Jurst Seriel, not surpassed by
any rival series in England, and they have often
Crofts ps. Beae, Is Eng Rep. 405,) tohert The com.
| parafire accuracy Of the La,o Journal Reports and
| The contemporanrous reports Of Manning f. Gram
ger. as to The true gleadinss in former case ,ras
directly inpousd In that case, Jerus, the Chit Jus
tice Of the Common Pleas, observed: at is ciar that
the plea u Sson rs Kidman, as reported in Man
| & Grang. Sl0 is not correct. The plea, as isFe
ported in the Lao Journal R.ports is just as my bro
Their Mauie supposrs In addition TO the foregoing
points Of superiority in thes. Reports, they will
| be found TO contain many valuable cases not
| else where 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 cases in the Jurist aud Law Jour
nal; in Clark and FinneIly's Reports in the House
| OF Lords; E, +. Moore's Reports in the Privy
Council; the Reports of Sirnons, 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, urlstone
and Gordon, in the Common Law Courts; also the
Criminal Reports of Denisop, Temple and New,
| and E. w. Cox; the Admiralty Reports Of Robin
son, and the Ecclesiastical Reports Of Robe tson-
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 Dgrs,.
The fret six volumes will he contained in Vol V.
of the Annual Digest, now in press.
We also beg leave to refer the reader to the an.
nex red recommendations.
BosToN, February, 1852.
Letters of Recommendation rscersd from Judges of
the United States Supreme Court
WAsHINGToN, January q 1852.
| GENrLEMEN: My engagements here have not
permitted me to examine partic ularly your repub
| LEGATION of the English Reports in Law and Equity
But, as far as | have been able TO look into them.
| they appear to be correctly and well executed.
| And II they continue to be repubiished 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 atral
their attention. take pleasure in recommending
| them.
| am, with much respect, your obedient servant,
| II. b. TANEY.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN.
WAsHINeroN. 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
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
stantial manner, and do credit to the enterprise Of
the publishers ! became a subscriber for them
they were found with the booksellers in the
West, and am convinced, that from THEIR CHEAP
NEs5 AND EXTENT OF MATTER, THEY MUST SUPER
| sEpE, AT LEAST IN THIS COUNTRY, ALL OTHER ENG
LIsH REPoRTs OF LATE DECISIONS.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
| JOHN MCLEAN.
| WAsHINeToN, January &c, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE Baows: think you have laid
the profession under great obligations, in the
| 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
nsh their libraries with the current English Re-
ports, of which many Of them have heretofore been
deprived. Tney 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 rnodi.
led hfv,in iSte cd IF
try. And. however modified these systems may
| tee 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 profe, sion in
| this country with the cases IMMEDIATELY AFTER
THE PUBLICATION ENGLANp, A CONSIDERATION
| OF THE FIRST IMPORTANCE; for, if the Reports Of
| cases decided are of my 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
PRISE
am, with great respect. your obediont servant,
SAMUEL NELSON.
WAsHINaTos, January IS, 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 a 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 r@pect, am your obedient servant
| b. r. CURTIS.
| WAsHINoToN, SUPREME CouRr Room,
| February II, 1852.
| GENTLEMEN: have examined your rcpubica-
| 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 we'll do
| without the contemporary decisions of the Eng
lish Courts have found them always so nstruc
| tive and useful, that ] have hitherto read them in
any form in which they have been published
| Hereafter will do 80 in yours.
| The Courts in England are daily acting upon
cases presenting important and also new features
All of us must acknowledge that they adud
Gated with very bile and discriminating nc ute ness,
and with great learning.
| Wishing your publication every success, ! am,
| gentlemen, respectfully, your obedient servant,
| JAMES NJ WAYNE.
| Mcasr5 TirTIH 4 RRowN HOeton I'm Oft