The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-10-26
ENGLISH Law AND EQUITY Reports,
To the Legal ptefessio,,.

ENGLISH LAW AND EQUITY REPORTS.
To the Legal Profession.
THE FIRST YEAR of the publication of the
! Aisttsh Reports in Lato and Equity closes
with the sixth volume. Hereafter this series will
De published only IN u0ltss, and the issue of se-
parate parts will be discontinued II Is found that
the second part of each volume follows 30 rapidly
after the First, that the advantages of publishing
W parts unimportant.. Each volume will here.
after appear once in two months, in the came size
and style as heretofore, and at the same exceed.
ingiy low rate of So Pervolume to permanent sub
scribers.
The profession need not be reminded that this In
the only series of Reports either in England or in
THIS country, which attempts to contain ALL the
decisions of ALL the English courts In this series
every reported case Except nsi prius decsions) is
given in FULL, without condensation or abridp-
ment, and the profession may rely Upon having an
accurate republication Of the English cases.
Al. u may he proper elso to state, that in England
mere are no regular reporters, authorised by law,
T. ~ TINS country but that each series of Reports
70 tneie conducted solely as q private enterprise,
yprivate reporters. And It is believed that for
rRoAprrsss, ACCURACY, oLEARNEss, land BREvIry--
the essential requisites in any Reports-the Law
Journal, and the Jurist Series are not surpassed by
any rival series in England, and they have often
been found more correct. See the late case Of
Crofts us. Beale, Is Eng Rep, 40s tvhere the eou-
paratioe accuracy Of the La,o Journal Reports, and
the contemporaries reports Of Manning f. Gran
directly inUolred In hatcase, Jeruis, the Chief Jus
tice Of The Common Pleas, observed: "H is clear that
the plea ia Sison Us. Kidman, as reported in Man.
Grang. $40, is not correct. The plea, as IL is
ported in the Lao Journal Reports, just as my bro
tter Mauie supposss" 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 cases in the Jurist and Law Jour-
nal; in Clark and Finnelly's Reports in the House
Of Lords; Z. 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.
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
nexed recommendations.
BosToN, February, 1852.
Letters of Recommendation received from Judges of
The United States Supreme Court.
WAsHINeToN, January q, 1852.
GENTLEMEN: My engagements here have not
permitted me to examine partc ularly your repub-
LEGATION of the Err ish Reports in Law and Equity.
But, far as l 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 a great convenience
to the Bench and the Bar and cannot fail to attrac.
their attention. take pleasure in recommending
them.
/ am, with much respect, your obedent servant,
r. b. TANEY.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN.
WAsHINaroN, January 19, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE h BnowN: In the prompt repub
LEGATION of the "English Reports in Law and
Equity" you tender to the profession a most i'm
porant 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 l became subscriber for them as
coon as they we're found with the booksellers in the
West, and am convinced, that from THEIR CHEAP
NESS AND EXTENT OF MATTER, THEY MUST SUPER
sxDE, AT LEAST IN THIS COUNTRY, ALL OTHER ENG
LIsH REPORTS OF LATE DECISIONS
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JOHN MCLEAN.
WAsHINaToN, 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
haoI IF thnl u,hs hou koap %t,o
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 IMMEDIATELv AFTER
THE PUBLICATION IN ENGLAND, A CONFEDERATION
OF THE FIRST IMPORTANCE; for, if the Reports of
cases decided are of any value, the sooner they
arc in the hands Of the profession the better. ]
sincerel 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 s. 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 coun-
try, together with their cheapness, ought to be
sufficient recommendation to insure their general
use.
With great respect, am your obedient servant
b. r. CURTIS.
WAsHINeToN, SUPREME CoURT Room,
February II, 1852.
GENTLEMEN: have examined your republica-
x,.., Nf SkA EHh r
Reports, and like very much the design and exc
cution oft.
Neither judge lawyer 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 have been published.
Hereafter will do so in yours.
The Courts in England are daily acting upon
cases presenting important and also new features.