The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-12-07
ENGLISH LAW AND EQUITY REPORTS

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ENGLISH LAW AND EQUITY REPORTS.
To the Legal Profession.
yTNHE FIRST YEAR of the publication Of the
Il English Reports IN Laip and Equity closes
with the sixth volume. Hereafter this series will
be published only in o0iumes and the issue Of Sc
parate parts will be discontinued. 1t 10 found that
the second part of each volume follows 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 heretofore, and at the same exceed
ingy low rate of 50 per volume to permanent sub
scribers. .... ..
The profession need not be reminded that this lie
the only series of Reports either in England or in
this country, which attempts to contain ALL the
decisions Of the English courts. In this series
every reported case Except nisi prius decisons) is
given in FULL, without condensation or abrdg-
ment, and the profession may rely upon having an
accurate republication Of the English cases.
IL may be proper lso to state, that in England
there are no regular reporters, authorized by law,
as in this country, but that each series Of Reports
is there conducted solely as private enterprise,
oy private reporters. And 1t is believed that for
pRoAPrNEss, ACCURACY, CLEARNEss, and BREvITy-
the essential requisites in any Reports-the Law
Journal, and the Jurist Seres, not surpassed by
any rival series in England, and they have often
Crofts Beale, Is Eng Rep, 40S, ,oher6 the com
paraiioe accuracy Of the La,o JornaI Reports, and
the contemporaneous reports Of Manning f. Gran
ger, as to the true plsadings IN former case,
directly inroloed. In that case, Jruis, the Cisf jus
tice Of the Common Pleas, observed: at is clear that
the plea IN Sison Kidman, reported in 3 Man.
Grang. 80, is not correct. The plea, IL is re
ported IN the Lao Journal Reports,i just as my bro
ner 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
IN wherebv rie will ptsi
all the reported cases in the Jurist and Law Jour
nal; in Clark and Finnelly's Reports in the House
Of Lords; K. 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 unequaled
Additional value will also be given to this series
from the fact that, hereafter they will be digesed
in the annual volumes Of the United States Digest
The first 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.
BosToN, February, 1852.
Letters of Recommendation received from Judges of
The United States Supreme Court
WAsHINsToN, January n, 1852.
GENTLENEN: My engagements here have not
permitted me to examine particularly your repub
LEGATION of the Err ish Reports in Law and Equity
But, as far ] have been able to look into them
they appear to be correctly and we'll executed
And If 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 attra
their attention. take pleasure in recommending
them.
am, with much respect, your obedient servant
X. b. TANEY.
Messrs. LITTLE g. BRowN.
WASHINGTON, January 10, 1852
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN: In the prompt repub
LEGATION of the English Reports in Law and
Equity" you tender to the profession a most i'm
includes cases decided in the House of Lords,
Privy Council, Courts of Equity and Common Law,
from and after Michaelmas Term, 1850; also,
"Crown Caseo 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 a most sub
stantal manner, and do credit to the enterprise of
the publishers. ! became q subscriber for them as
soon as 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 Esq
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. .u
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 a 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 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 IMMEDIATELY AFTER
THE PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLAND, CONSOLIDATION
OF THE FIRST IMPoRTANcE; for, if the Reports of
cases decided are 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 BRowN-. Gentlemen: ny 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
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 own coun-
try, together with their cheapness, ought to be
sufficient recommendations to insure their general
With great respect, am your obedient servant
B. r. CURTIS.
WAsHINGToN, SUPREME CoURT Room,
February II, 1852.
GENTLRMEN: have examined your repu blica.
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 well do
without the contemporary decsions of the Eng
lish Courts. have found them always 30 nstruc-
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 daily acting upon
cases presenting important and also new features.
All of us must acknowledge that they are adjudi-
Gated with very able and discriminating uteness,
and with great learning.
Wishing your publication every success, / am,
gentlemen, respectfully, your obcdient servant,
JAMES M. WAYNE.
Messrs LITTLE BRowN, Boston, Massac h usetts.
WAsHINeToN, January 2S, 1852.