The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-10-21
ENGLISH Law AND EQUITY REPORTS
To the Legal Profession.

| ENGLISH Law AND EQUITY REPORTS.
To the Legal Profession.
,CHE FIRST YEAR of the publication of the
| l. English Reports in Laio and Equity closes
with the sixth volume. Hereafter this series will
| be published only in poumes, and the issue Of
parate parts will be discontinued. 1t is found that
the second part of each volume follows 80 rapidly
after the first, that the advantages OF publishing
| by parts unimportant Each volume will here
after appear once in two months, in the same size
| and style as heretofore and at the same exceed
ingiy low rate Of S. per volume to permanent sub
| scribers.
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 this series
every reported Except nsiprius decisions) 10
| 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 .lso to state, that in Engian
there are no regular reporters, authorized by law
in this country, but that each series OF Reports
is there conducted solely as a private enterprise,
by private reporters. And it is believed that for
PnoMPTNEss, ACCURACY, cLEARNEss, and BnEvITy-
the essential requisites in any Reports-the Law
Journal and the Jurst Series, are 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, 4OS } ,ohere the COM
puratioe accuracy Of the Lao Journal Reports, and
the contsmporaneous reports Of Manning f. Gran
gery as 10 the true pieadings IN former case tods
directly inuoiued In that case, Jerots. the Chif Jus
tice Of the Common Pleas, Observed: at is clear that
the plea "a Sson Kdman, as reported in Man.
| Il Grang $40, is not correct. The plea, as IL is
ported in the La,o Journal REPORTS is just as my bro
Tier Maule 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 report cases in the Jurist 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 Sinons 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, Hurlstone
and Gordon, in the Common Law Courts; also the
Criminal Reports of Denison, Temple and New,
| and f. 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 fret 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 receiued from Judges of
The United States Supreme Court.
WAsHINGroN, January q, 1852.
GENTLEMEN: My engagements here have not
permitted me to examine particularly your repub-
LEGATION of the Err; ish Reports in Law and Equity.
But, far as | have been able to look into them,
they appear to be correctly and well executed.
And 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 attract
their attention. l take pleasure in recommending
them.
lam, with much respect, your obedient servant,
| R. B. TANEY.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN.
WAsHINeToN, January l9, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN: In the prompt repub
LEGATION of the "Englsh Reports in Law and
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,
siastica 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 a most sub.
stantia 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 l am convinced, that from THEIR CHEAP
NESS AND EXTENT OF MATTER. THEY MUST SUPER
| sEDE, AT LEAST IN THIS COUNTRY, ALL OTHER ENG
| LIsH REPORTS OF LATE DECISIONS.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JOHN MCLEAN.
| WAsHINeToN, January 26, 1852.
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.
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 less modi-
fed, daily administered by the courts of this
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 hero.
Your plan, also, will furnish the profession in
this country with the cases IMMEDIATELY AFTER
THE PUBLICATION IN ENeLAND, CONSIDERATION
OF THE FIRST IMPORTANCE; for, If the Reports of
decided are of any value, the sooner they
are in the hands of the profession the better !
will be commemorate with the merit of the enter
prise.
am, with great respect, your obediont servant,
SAMUEL NELSON.
WAsHINGroN, 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 period
far within those of any Court in our own coun-
try, together with their chcapness, ought to be
sufficient recommendations to insure their general
use.
With great respect, am your obedient servant
b. r. CURTIS.
WAsHINoToN, SUPREME CouRT Room,
February II, 1852.
GENTLEMEN: have examined your republica-
ton of the current English and Common Law
Reports, and like very much the design and exc
cution of it.
Neither judge nor lawyer can very well do
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.
Hereafter will do 30 in yours.
The Courts in England daily acting upon
cases presenting important and also new features.