The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-08-07
ENGLISH LAW AND EQUITY REPORTS,


ENGLISH LAW AND EQUITY REPORTS,
To the Legal Profession.
THE FIRST YEAR of the publication of the
English Reports in La,o and Equity closes
with the sixth volume. Hereafter this series will
be published only tn uotumes, and the issue OF Sc
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 are unimportaut. Each volume will here
after appear once in two months in the same size
| and style as heretofore, and at the same exceed.
ingly low rate of 50 per volume to permanent SUBJ
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 Il ia series
every reported Except nisi prius decisons) s
given in FULL, without condensation or abridg'
ment and the profession may rely upon having an
| accurate republication Of the English cases.
| Ii may be proper .sso to state, that IN England
| there regular reporters, authorized BY law,
as in this country, but that each series Of Reports
is there conducted solely as private enterprise,
| by private reporters And it Is believed that for
| PRoMprNEss, AccuR Acy, CLEARNEss, and BREviry-
| the essential requisites in any Reports-the Law
Journal and the Jurist 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 } tohert the com ,
paratirs accuracy Of the Lao Journal Reports, and
the contemporary Gus reports Of Manning Gran
directly invoiurd In that case, Jerus. the CiJ JUS
tce Of The Common Pleas, observed: IN IS CLEAR that
TIE plea IN Sison us kid,nan, a. reported IN Man
s. Grang. SO, is not correct. The plea, as IL isTe
ported in the Lao Journal IL ports, is just as my bro
thrr laue supposts 4" In addition TO the foregoing
points Of superiority in these Reports, they will
| De found to contain many valuable cases not
elsewher reported, while NO CASE IN AMY other
other series viii 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
of Lords; +. F. Moore's Repo, "a in the Privy
Council; the Reports of Sitnons, 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. Hurstone
and Gordon, in the Common Law Courts; also the
Criminal Reports Of Denison, Temple and New,
and E. w. Cox; the Admiralty Reports Of Robin
son, aud the Ecclesiastical Reports Of Robertson
combination Of legal reports entirely unequaiied
In any country.
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 Dises'.
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.
xed recommendations.
BosToN, February, 1852.
Letters of Recommendation received from Judges Of
the United States Supreme Court
WAsHiNeros, January q, 1852.
GENTLEMEN: My engagements here have not
LEGATION of the English 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 a great convenience
the Bench and the Bar, and cannot fail to attra\
their attention. take pleasure in recommending
them.
am, with much respect, your obedient servant,
Messrs LITTLE 4 BRowN.
WAsHINGroN, January l9, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE 4 BaowN: In the prompt repub
LEGATION of the English Reports in Law and
Equity" you tender to the profession most i'm
portant 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 Mchaelmas Term, 1850; also,
"Crown Cases Reserved, and Cases in the Eccle.
siastcal ana admiralty Courts" And the second,
third, fourth and fifth Volumes which you have re-
pu plished, 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
stantial manner, and do credit 10 the enterprise Of
the publishers. ! became a subscriber for them as
they were found with the booksellers in the
West, and l am convinced, that from THEIR CHEAP
EXTENT OF MATTER, THEY MUST SUPER
ssDE. AT LEAST IN THIS COUNTRY, ALL OTHER ENG
LIsH RsPoRTs OF LATE DECISIONS.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JOHN MCLEAN.
WAsHtNGroN, January 26, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE & Bows: I think you have laid
the profession under great obligations, in the re-
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 ma ny of them have heretofore been
deprived. They will thus have a ready acces' 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 nistercd 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 here.
Your plan, also, will furnish the profe .sion in
this country with the cases IMMEDIATELy AFTER
THE PUBLICATION IN ESeLAND, a CONSIDERATION
OF FIRST IMPORTANCE; for, If the Reports Of
cases decided are OF any value, the sooner they
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
WAsHINsToN, January 26, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE & BaowN- 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 cheapness, ought to be
sufficient recomme ndatons to insure their general
use.
With great rspect, am your obedient servant
b. r. CURTIS.
WAsHiNoToN, SUPREME CouRT RooM,
February II, 1852.
GESrLEMEN: have examined your republica.
ton of the current English and Common Law
Reports, and like very much the design and exc
cutiou Off it,
Neither judge nor lawyer very well do
without the contemporary decisions of the Eng
lish Courts have found them always so instr NC
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 are 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 teness,
and with great learning.
Wishing your publication every success. I am,
gentlemen respectfully, your obedent servant,
JAMES NJ. WAYNE.
Messrs LITTLE & BaowN, Boston, Massachusetts.
WAsHIsGToN, January %, 1852.
GENTLEMEN: A publication like that in which
Of he o~lso oh Il