The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-06-10
ENGLISH LAW AND EQUITY REPORTS.


ENGLISH LAW AND EQUITY REPORTS.
TO the Legal Profession.
FBNHE FIRST YEAR of tho publication of the
l. English Reports in Lao and Equity closes
with the sixth volume. Hereafter this series will
be published only IN voules, and the issue of Sc
parate parts will be discontinued. II is found that
the second part of each volume follows so rapidly
alter the first, that the advantages Of publishing
by parts are unmportant. Each volume will here
alter appear once in two months, in the sanN size
ana etyie as heretofore, and at the same exceed
ingiy low rate of So per 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 ALL the English courts In Il is scres
every reported case Except nis prus decisions) Id
given in FULL, without condensation or abridg-
inent, 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 of Reports
is there conducted solely a private enterprise,
PHoMPTN Ess, ACCURACY, CLEARNEss, and 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 case of
Cros us. Beale, Is Eng. Rep, 40S } tchere Tie com
parahue accuracy Of the Laio Journal Reports, and
the eontemporaseous reports Of Manning f. Gran
ger, as to the true pieadings in Former case ,oas
directly inUoived. In that case, Jyvis, The Chief JUS
tice of the Common Pleas o6serusd: " i, clear that
n!e plea IN Sison us. Kidman, reported in Man.
Grang. $40, IS not correct. The ple0 as il is re-
ported IN the Law Journal Reports is lust as nv bro
HeT MGuie supposes." 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; +. +. Moore's Reports in the Priv
Council; the Reports Of Simons Hare, Beavap, De
Gex and Small, and Macnaghten and Gordon. in
the Courts of Equity; Adolphus and Ellis, Man
ming, Granger and Scott, and Welsby, Hurlstonc
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 unequallcd
Ill any country.
Additional value will also be given to this scrics
from the fact that, hereafter, they will be dgescd
In the annual volumes OF the United States Digest
The fret six volumes will be contained in Vol "
OF the Annual Digest, now in press.
We also beg leave to refer the reader to the an
nexed recommendations.
Bo5ToN, 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-
Icaion OF the English Reports in Law and Equity
But, "a far as have been able to look into them
they appear to be correctly and well executed
AND II they continue to be republished with the
promptness of the volumes already out, and at the
price mentioned, they will be great convenience
to thc Bench and the Bar, and cannot fail to atrac,
Their attention. take pleasure in recommending
them
am, with much respect, your obedient servant,
r. b. TANEY
Messrs LITTLE BRowN.
Uan
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN: In the prompt renub
lication OF the "Engish Reports in Law and
Equity" you tender to the profession a 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 Ecclc,
slastical 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 oil 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 as
soon as they found with the booksellers in the
w est, and am convinced, that from THEIR CHEAP
NESS AND EXTENT or MATTER, THEY MUST SUPER
sEDK, AT LEAST IN THIS COUNTRY, ALL OTHER ENG
LIsH REPoRTs OF LATE DECISIONS.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JOHN MCLEAN.
WAsHISeroN, January 20, 1852
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowS: think you have laid
the profession under great obligations in the re-
publication Of the English Reports in La and
Equity" in this country.
The low price at which the volumes are offered
VIII enable the bar generally in this way 20 fur
nish their libraries with the current English Re-
porte, oil which many OF them have heretofore been
deprived. They will thus have a ready ncccs= 20
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 modi-
M nm rfG ate hxyt 49, 81.
try. And, however modified these systems NAV
be, II 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 i'm
this country with the ImnEprArELy AFTER
THE PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLAND CONFEDERATION
or THE FIRsT IMPORTANCE; for, If the Reports Of
cascs decided of any value the sooner thew
are in the hands of the profession the better i
sincerely hope your encouragement from the bar
will be commensurate with the merit Of the enter
price.
am, with great respect your obedont servant.
SAMUEL NELSON
WAspfSoTos, January 26. 1852
Messrs LITTLE BRowN-G Gentlemen: BY your
publication OF the English Law and Equity Re
ports, think an important benefit 10 conferred on
the legal profession in this country. The fidelity
with which these Reports appear 10 have been thus
Jar made, iheir compact and convenient arrange
nent, their carly publication, bringing down the
decisions OF all the important Courts TO a period
lar within thosc OF any Court in our own coun.
Try, together with their oheapness, ought 10 be
sufficient recommendations TO insure their general
lae
With great respect. am your obcdicnt servant.
Il. X. CURTIS.
WAsHISeToN, SUPREME CoURT Room
February II, 1852.
GESTLrnEs; have examined your republicn-
ION Of the current English and Common Law
Reports, and like very much the design and exc
tuition Of it.
Neither Judge nor lawyer can very we'll do
without the contemporary decisions Of the Eng
ish Courts have found them always 50 instruc-
i've aud useful, that have hitherto read them in
my form In which they have been Published.
Hereafter will do so in yours.
The Courts in England daily netting upon
'oses presenting important and also new features
All Of us must acknowledge that they are adiudi.