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

TINE FIRST YEAR of the publication of the
Il English Reports IL, Lao and Equity closes
with the sixth volume. Hereafter this series will
be published only in volumes, and the issue of
parate parts will be discontinued. II ID found that
the second part of each volume follows 30 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
ingy 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 ILL the
decisions of ALL the English courts In this series
every reported Except nisi pris decisions) Is
given in FULL, without condensation or abridg-
ment, and the profession may rely upon having an
accurate republication OF the English cases.
1t may be proper Also 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 n private enterprise,
by private reporters. And it Is believed that for
PRoMPTNEss, ACCURACY, cLEARNEss,a and BREviTY-
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 ps Beae, Is Eng. Rep, 40S,) tohers the
paratiUe accuracy Of the La,o Journal Reports, and
the contempordneotls reports Of Manning y Gran
ser, as TO the true pleadings IN Former case .oas
directly inuoued In that case, Jerpis, the Chief Jus
fice Of the Common Pleas Observed: at is clear that
Tie plea IN Sson rs. Kidman, as reported in Man.
Grang. Sl0 is not correct The plea, as ii is re
ported tn the La,D Journal Reports just my bro
ther 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 AMY other
other seres 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 Finnellys Reports in the House
of Lords; z. F. Moore's Reports in the Privy
Council; the Reports of Simons, Hare, Beavan, Dc
Gex and Small, and Macnaghten and Gordon, in
the Courts of Equity; Adolphus and Ellis, Man
ming, Granger and Scott, and Welsby, Hur lstone
and Gordon, in the Common Law Courts; also the
Criminal Reports of Denson, 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 digcsted
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
nexed recommendations.
BosToN, February, 1852.
Letters of Recommendation receired from Judges of
the United States Supreme Court.
WAsHINGroN, January 81, 1852.
GnNrLEMEN: My engagements here have not
permitted me 10 examine partic ularly your repub-
LEGATION of the English Reports in Law and Equity.
But, far have been able to look into them,
they appear to be correctly and well executed.
And il they continue to be repubished 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. take pleasure in recommending
them.
am, with much respect, your obedient servant,
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN.
WAsHINGToN, January 49, 1852.
LEGATION of the English Reports in Law and
Equity" you tender to the profession O most i'm :
porant service. The first volume of these Reports
includes decided in the House of Lords,
Privy Council, Courts Of Equity and Common Law,
from and after Michaelmas Term, 1885, also,
"Crown Cases Reserved, and Cases in the Eccle-
siastical 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 arc executed in most sub
stautial manner and do credit to the enterprise OF
the publishers. became a subscriber for them as
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 20, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN: think you have laid
the profession under great obligations in the re.
publication of the "English Reports in Law nd
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 tc
the decisions of courts sitting at the fountain
head of the law, whence have been derived for the
most part, the several systcms more or less modi
fed dailv a1miniat red Inv The IF
try. And, however modified these systems may
be, it is manifest that these decisions must shcC
great light upon the investigation of most of thu
cases arising here.
Your plan, also, will furnish the profcssio ir
this country with the cases IMMEDIATELY Aztec
THE PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLAND, CoNsIpERATIo,
OF THE FIRST IMpoRTANCE; for, if the Reports o
cases decided of any value, the sooner the
are in the hands Of the profession the better.
sincerely hope your encoura cement from the ba
will be commensurate with the merit of the enter
prise.
LAM with great y oST GR9d ont ss5ySnt
WAsHINGToN, January 26, 1852.
Mcssrs. LITTLE & BRowN- Gentlemen: BY you
publication of the English Law and Equity Re
pors, think an important benefit is conferred OF
the legal profession in this country. The fidelity
with which these Reports appear to have been thu
far made, their compact and convenient arrange
ment, their early publication, bringing down TIN
far within those OF any Court in our own couu
try, togct hcr with their chcapness, ought to b.
sufficient recommendations to insure their genera
use.
With great respect, am your obedent servant
b. r. CURTIS.
| WAsHlNeToN, SUPREME CoURT Room,
February II, 1852.
|" GENTLEMEN: ] have examined your rcpublica
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 d.
without the contemporary decisions of the Eng
| lish Courts. I have found them always so instruc
tive and useful, that have hitherto read them il
any form in which they have been published
Hereafter will do in yours.
The Courts in England arc daily acting upoI
| cases presenting important and also new features
| All of us must acknowledge that they are adjudi
Gated with very able and discriminating acutcncsa
and with great learning.
Wishing your publication every success, ] am
gentlemen, respectfully, your obcdient servant,
JAMES Nj. WAYNE.
| Messrs LITTLE & BRowN, Boston, Massachusetts
WAsHuNGToN, January 2S, 1852.
GENTLEMEN: publication like that in whic
you are engaged, Of the English Law and Chan
Gerry Reports, if promptly and accurately executed
cannot fail Of great usefulness to the profession