The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-02-21
E0UITY

Lap and Equity, within a few weeks after their
delivery, were commenced a number OF years
since, and have met with the universal approba
ton OF the legal profession. Their high cost, how
,ver, has hitherto prevented their general circu-
ation in this country, and their merits are as yet
but little known among us.
The subscribers propose to rcpublish these re
ports in full as fast as they appear in England and
can be received here. They will contain reports
of cases decided in the House of Lords, the Privy
Council, the several Courts of Equity, the Court OF
! Queens Bench, the Court of Common Pleas, the
| Court of Exchequer and Exchequer Chamber, the
Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts, the Court of
Bankruptcy, including also the Election cases, the
Crown Cases Reserved, and the Railway and Canal
Gases.
These reports will be published in numbers or
parts, commencing with the decisions oil Michael
mas (November) term, 1850, and will be carefully
edited by member of the bar, with notes and re-
| ferences to analogous American decisions.
Each number will consist of over three hundred
pages closely printed octave, the paper and
in clear fair type, and will contain table OF cases,
and full table of contents, thus forming com
plete volume by itself, well part of an en-,
tire series. Every alternate or second number VIII
| be PACED consecutively from the number imine-
diatey preceding, and will contain table Of cases,
and of contents to both, and thus form complete
volume, ready for binding, Of oper Sir hundred pdges
In each volume the of the several courts will
be found arranged together and. in point of style
and typographical execution, this series will bc
fully equal to the beat reports OF England or this
| country.
| Iii designed to make this a pERMANEST PUBL
CATION, and thus establish series Of English
Law and Equity Reports, which shall, in all re-
spects, be far in advance OF any other reprint OF
| English ReDorta in this country, and which shal
| furnish to the American lawyer the decisions of
Westminster Hall, nearly ficO years before they
could oer,cise be obtained and long before the pub
LEGATION of the contemporaneous decisions of most
| Of our own tribunals.
| The price of this publication will be $40 for
twelve numbers, payable in advance, or for the six
volumes, handsomely and uniformly bound in law
| sheep, Sl2.
The parts will be sold separately il desired, at
ST. each.
Single volume, bound, So 25.
Parts l. and H., stitched, or Vol l., bound in law
| sheep, containing reports of one hundred and
| eighty eight cases, now ready for delivery.
The following are among the opinions of this
work expressed on the publication Of the frst mum.
Letter from Hon. Miard Fillmore, President of the
United States.
WAsHINGToN, April Is 1851.
JAMES BRows, ESQ.,: MY DEAR SIR-Some days
| since ! received, by the hand Of the Postmaster
General the first number Of the English Reports,
which you propose to republish in this country
comprising every case reported in England and
now have your letter of the 9Th instant inquiring
my opinion OF the enterprise.
While pursuing my profession, took deep in.
terest in publications of this kind. The able
judges who have adorned the judicial tribunals of
England, have shed a lustre upon the Common
Law, and illumned its profoundest depths. con-
slider law library complete that does not contain
their principal reports in Law and Equity, and in
their Ecclesiastical Courts and in Admiralty. For
some years had been in the habit of receiving
these In Z" condensed" form. This condensation
however, consisted, not in abbreviation of each
case, but n selection from the several and
was often annoyed by finding a reference to cases
in the Digests. which | deemed very important,
wholly omitted in the "condsnsed reports"
therefore hailed with great pleasure an effort which
made some Tune since to republish the whole.
If the English Reports entire, can be republlshed
with despatch in this country, at price 81 low as
to bring them within the reach of the members of
the bar generally, conceive that il will confer a
great benefit upon the profession and the judiciary,
and consequently upon the country at large Know
ing your enterprise, anticipate your success, and
can only express the hope that your reward may
s sc 1dTa' TO your MiLLARD FILLMORE FIJI osn
From ne Neto York Literary World
Messrs. Little Brown, of Boston whose law
books, in point of typographical execution, vie
with the best similar issues OF the English press
and in point of value and importance are inferior
to none in this country, have just commenced the
publication Of legal series, deserving the especial
attention of the profession throughout the country
The basis Of this series, Of which the first mum
Der is before US, are the LaU Journal Reports and
the yDtst. two English serials which communicate
TO the British Bar, within a few weeks aftcr their
delivery, the prominent decisions of all the courts
from the House of Lords to the Court of Bankrupt
cy, and other tribunals Of limited but practically
important jurisdiction. This excellent arrange.
ment might be followed with great advantage in this
country, for the purpose of obviating the delay
which necessarily attends the issuing of the regu-
lar volumes Of reports Of partic uar courts and
glad to- the enterprise Of our legal pub
fishers aYailing themselves of il, to introduce the
English Reports promptly and regularly to the pro-
icsslon. The authority of Westminster Hall has lost
nothing Of its sanction ; and the permanently high
character of the English judiciary gives to their
adludications continued weight and decisive in
huenco with our courts. Hitherto the difficulty hss
been that the reported cases there have grown old
before they could be quoted and applied mere, and
there was no way in which the current iurispru-
donoc and adjudications Of the day in the En- lsh
courts could be made available by the American
bar. except at great expense and by continual vigil
lance. This difficulty Messrs. Little & Browns
Reports will remove; the cases decided in the
Queens Bench the Common Pleas and the Ell.
chcquer Chamber in January, will be ready for de-
livery here in April or May, long before sdjudged
cases OF the same date in own courts appear IN
the regular reports in which they perpctuated.
Nearly two years will thus be gained over the pre-
sent system which requires delay until the large
volume of authorized reports is published on the
other side and has then been reprinted on this
One advantage OF the present series IL, that the
decisions which IL gives those Of courts in bane
the deliberate judgments Of the bench and not the
lees reliable decisions at Nisi Pritp, which, how
ever interesting in many instances, do not carry
with them the same authority and force.
The Reports edited by r. n Bennett and
Chauncy Smith, esqs., of the Boston bar. and their
systematic arrangement, and the care with which
the notes, index, &c, are prepared, evidence the
be carried out.
In this connepion we take pleasure in adverting
TO Messrs. Little and Browns other legal publica
tons, among which are included many of the most
conspicuous and authoritative troatiscs Of our uris
prudence. Judge Story's works, for ninr n library
almost Of Themselves, and familiar for their high
value and extensive reputation To America read
ers in general, well a TO the legal profession
have all issued from their press; have also tho
several works of Professor Greenleaf Two very
valuable and extensive annual publications arc also
ssuod by them, the United States Digest and the
Statutes at Large; tho latter being the authorized
edition OF the Acts Of Congress, got up in much
better style, both for reference aud preservation,
than under the old regime OF public printing al
Washington, which included the annual statutes,
and sent them forth 10 the world thin paper and
IN bad type.
From the Neto York Ere1ing Post
Little x Brown, Of Boston, TO whose enterprise
the reading public has 60 often been indebted for
the most valuable American and foreign books,
propose to publish, by subscription, new series of
the English Reports in Law and Equity. This SC
rice will contain all the authoritative decisions of
the House Of Lords the Courts Of Equity, the Privy
Court, the Queens Bench the Erchequer Cou,mon