The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-07-09
ENGLISH LAW AND EQUITY REPORTS.


ENGLISH Law AND EQUITY REPORTS
To the Legal Profession.
lsNHE FIRST YEAR Of the publication of the
Il English Reports in La,o and Equity closes
Win the sixth volume. Hereafter this series will
be published only in polImes, and the issue OF Sc
parate parts will be discontinued. II is found tina
the second part of each volume follows so rapidly
after the frat, 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 So per volume to permanent sub
5cribers-
The profession need not be reminded that this is
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 IL Ia series
every reported case Except nsi prius decisons) is
given In FULL, without condemnation or abridg-
nent' and the profession may rely upon having an
accurate republication OF the English cases.
IL may be proper iso to state, that in England
there are no regular reporters, authorized by law,
as in this country but that each series Of Reports
10 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 Juris Series are not surpassed by
any rival series in England, and they have often
been iound more correct. See the late case Of
Crofts Us Beale, Is Eng. Rep, 40S,) Uhsrs the
prGfire accuracy Of the La,D Journal Reports, and
the contsmporaneOus reports Of Manning f. Gran
ger, as to the true pleddings in former case ,cas
directly inuoloed. In that case, JerUis. the Cif JUS
tics Of The Common Pleas, Observed "H is clear that
The plea IN Sison as. Kidman, reported in Man.
4 Grang. $40, is not correct The plea, as IL is re
ported in the Lao Journal Reports, is just my bro
ther Maule suPp0ses." 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 ANY other
other series will be omitted in this Arrangements
have been made whereby this series will contain
all the reported cases in the Jurst and Law Jour
nal; in Clark and Finnelly's Reports in the House
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 Welsby, Hurstone
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 tom
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 ia Vol. "
of the Annual Digest, now in press.
! We also beg leave to refer the reader to the
ncxcd recommendations.
| BosToN, February, 1852.
Letters Of Recommendation receiped 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-
LEGATION of the English Reports in Law and Equity
But, as far as have been able to look into them
they appear to correctly and we'll executed.
And If they COMMUNE 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 attrac.
their attention. take pleasure in recommending
them.
am, with much respect, your obedent servant,
| r. b. TANEY.
Messrs LITTLE & BRowN.
WAsHINGToN, January IS, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE g. BRowN: In the prompt repub
Iication 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,
Prvy Council, Courts of Equity and Common Law,
| "Crown Cases Reserved, and Cases in the Eccle-
sastical 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 most sub
santia manner, and do credit to the enterprise of
| the publishers. l became subscriber for them as
soon they were found with the booksellers in the
West, and am convinced, that from THEIR CHEAP
NEss AND EXTENT OF MATTER THEY MUST SUPER
sEpE, AT LEAST IN THIS COUNTRY, ALL OTHER ENG
LIsH REPORTS LATE DECISIONS.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JOHN MCLEAN.
WAsHINGToN, January 26, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE & BaowN: l 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
head of the law, whence have been derived for the
most part, the several systems, more or less mod-
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 PUBLICATION IN ENGLAND, CONFEDERATION
OF THE FIRST IMPORTANCE; for, if the Reports of
cases decided Of any 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 enter
, prise.
am, with great respect your obediont servant,
, SAMUEL NELSON.
WAsHINGToN, January 26, 1852
Messrs. LITTLE Il 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 own coun-
, try, together with their cheapness, ought to be
sufficient recommendations to insure their general
use.
With great respect, am your obedent servant
b. r. CURTIS.
, WAsHINeToN, SUPREME CouRT ROOM
February II, 1882
GENTLEMEN: have examined your republica-
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 dc
without the contemporary decisions of the Eng
lish Courts. have found them always 30 instruc.
tive and useful, that have hitherto read them in
any form in which they have been published
e Hereafter will do so in yours.
The Courts in England daily acting upor
D., cases presenting important and also features
All Of us must acknowledge that they adjud
Gated with very able and discriminating ute ness
;, and with great learning.
Wishing your publication every success, / am
gentlemen, respectfully, your obedient servant.
JAMES M. WAYNE.
= Messrs LITTLE & BRowN, Boston, Massachusetts s