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ger, to the true pleadings IN former case. ,cas
directly involved. In that case Jerpis, the Chief JUS
tice Of the Common Pleas, Observed: at is clear that
The plea IN Sison Us. Kidman, as reported in Man
& Grang. $40, is not correct. The plea, ii is re
ported in The La,v Journal Reports, just asmy bro
ther Malle supposss'' In addition to the foregoing
3points Of superiority in these Reports, they will
be found to contain many valuable cases not
elsewhere reported, while NO CASE In AMY 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
Council; the Reports Of Simons, Hare, Beavan, De
- Gex and Small, and Macnaghten and Gordon, in
the Courts of Equity; Adolphus and Ellis, Man
Mining, Granger and Scott, and Welsby, Hurlstone
- and Gordon, in the Common Law Courts; also the
$Criminal Reports of Denison, Temple and New,
q and f. w. Cox; the Admiralty Reports of Robin
son, and the Ecclesiastical Reports of Robertson
combination of legal reports entirely unequalled
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 in Vol. v.
of the Annual Digest, now in press.
We also beg leave to refer the reader to the an
nexed recommendations.
q BosToN, February, 1852.
Letters of Recommendation received from Judges OF
the United States Supreme Court. ~
WAsHINaToN, January q, 1852.
u GENTLEMEN: My engagements here have not
permitted me to examine particularly your repub-
lication of the En- fish Reports in Law and Equity
4 But, as far l have been able to look into them
z they appear to be correctly and well executed
&And if they continue to be republished with the
8promptness of the volumes already out, and at the
&price mentioned, they will be great convenience
ITO the Bench and the Bar, and cannot fail to attrac,
4 their attention. take pleasure in recommending
$them. ~
y am, with much respect, your obedient servant
n r. b. TANEY.
q Messrs. LITTLE & Brown.
y WAsHINGToN, January 10, 1852.
q Messrs. LITTLE & BaowN: In the prompt repub
b location of the "English Reports in Law and
y Equity" YOU tender to the profession a most i'm
portant service. The first volume of these Reports
4includes cases decided in the House of Lords,
laPrivy Council, Courts OF Equity and Common Law,
Sfrom and after Mchaelmas Term. 1850; also,
H'Crown Cases Reserved, and Cases in the Eccle.
siastical and Admiralty Courts" And the second,
third, fourth and fifth Volumes which you have re-
8published, include the decided in the above
Ecourts in 1851.
a These Reports, like all other works which pro.
Eceed from your press, are executed in most sub,
santia manner, and do credit to the enterprise of
1.-THE publishers. ! became subscriber for them as
they found with the booksellers in the
3 West, and am convinced, that from THEIR CHEAP
i NEss AND EXTENT OF MATTER, THEY MusT SUPER
SsxDE, AT LEAST IN THIS COUNTRY, ALL OTHER ENG
&LIsH REPORTS OF LATE DECISIONS.
a Very respectfully, your obcdient servant,
q JOHN MCLEAN.
81 WAsHINGToN, January &c, 1852.
81 Messrs. LITTLE BRowN: think you have laid
Hthe profession under great obligations, in the
adjudication of the "Engish Reports i'll Law and
8 The low price at which the volumes arc offered,
Twill enable the bar generally in this way to fur.
: Irish their libraries with the current English Re
Sports, of which many of them have heretofore been
8deprived. They will thus have ready access t.
1.-The decisions of courts sitting at tbs fountain
Shead of the law, whence have been derived, for the
most part, the several SYSTEMS more or less modi.
&ied daily administered by the courts of this coun-
TRY. And, however modified these systems may
3be, it is manifest that these decisions must shed
great light upon the investigation Of moot of the
Icases arising here.
Your plan, also, will furnish the profession in
this country with the cases IMMEDIATELY AFTER
THE PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLAND, A CONSIDERATIONS
loF THE FIRST IMPORTANCE; for, if the Reports Of
= leases decided of any value, the sooner they
&are in the hands of the profession the better.
sncerely hope your encouragement from the bar
Twill be commensurate with the merit of the enter.
prise.
4 am, with great respect, your obediont servant
SAMUEL NELSON.
WAsRINGToN, January 26, 1852.
Mcssrs. LITTLE BRowN-- Gentlemen: BY your
Equalization of the En- glsh Law and Equity Re-
&ports, think an important benefit is conferred or
Ethe legal profession in this country The fidelity
with which these Reports appear to have been thus
far made, their compact and convenient arrange
4ment, their early publication, bringing down the
4decisions of all the important Courts to period
s far within those of any Court in our own coun-
&try, together with their cheapness, ought to be
&sufficent recommendations to insure their general
Fuse
8 With great reeract, am your obedient servant
" b. r. CURTIS.
II WAsHINeToN, SUPREME CouRT Room,
n February IT, 1852.
GENTLEMEN: have examined your republica.
3tion Of the current English and Common Law
3Reports, and like very much the design and exc
4cufion of it..
Il Neither judge nor lawyer can very well de
without the contemporary decisions of the Eng
3sh Courts. l have found them always 80 inetruc.
Hive and useful, that have hitherto read them il
&any form in which they have been published
3Hereafter will do SO in yours.
Il The Courts in England are daily acting upor
ceases presenting important and also new features
7tAll Of us must acknowledge that they adjudi
Heated with very able and discriminating &C uteness
land with great learning.
s. Wishing your publication every success, am
genemen' respectfully y9p MS Ssed M
Messrs LITTLE & BaowN, Boston, Massachusetts,
"a WARRINGTON, January Is, 1852.
= GENTLEMEN: A publication like that in which
Ayou are engaged, of the English Law and Chan
9cery Reports, If promptly and accurately executed
lea fail of great usefulness TO the profession
sSincudng both the Bench and the Bar. The work
&so far as you have proceeded in it, appears to b.
f4accurately and well done, and is certain!y fur
2suished at cheap rate.
n With great respect, yours,
81 p. V. DANIEL.
81 GENTLEMEN: am much pleased with your re
#print of the English Reports in Law and Equity
Elf you continue to furnish them at the same price
2$and well executed as the present volumes, ant
13with the same promptness, they Will receive tn
,ageneral patronage of the Bar.
"a Yours, &C., z. Z. GREER.
"a Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN.
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