The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-12-09

ENGLISH LAW AND EQUITY REPORTS.
To tho Legal Profession.
TINE FIRST YEAR of the publication of the
Il Ehglish Reports in LGto and Equity closes
with the sixth volume. Hereafter this series will
be published only in polttmes and the issue Of Sc
parate parts will be discontinued. II is found that
the second part of each volume follows 30 rapidly
after the first, that the advantages of publishing
by parts are unimportant. Each volume will here
after appear once in two months, in the same size
and style as heretofore, and at the same exceed
ingiy low rate of So pervolume to permanent sub
scribers r' .. a..
The profession need not be reminded that this 10
the only series of Reports either in England or in
this country, which attempts to contain ALL the
decisions of ALI the English courts. In this series
every reported Except nsi pri,ts decsions) Is
given in FULL, without condemnation or abridg-
ment, and the profession may rely upon having an
accurate republication of the English cases.
1t may be proper .lso to state, that in England
there are regular reporters, authorized by law,
as in this country, but that each series of Reports
Is there conducted solely as private enterprise,
PRoMPTNEss, ACCURACY, oLEARNEss, and BREvITY-~
the essential requisites in any RePorts--the Law
Journal, and the Jurst Seres, not surpassed by
any rival series in England, and they have often
been found more correct. See the late Of
Crots Beale, Is Eng. Rep, 40S ) ,Dhert the
paratiUe accuracy Of The Lao Journal Reports, and
ger, as TO the true pleadngs IN former case, ,Das
directly inpoiped. In that case, Jerpis the Chief JUS
tice Of the Common Pleas, obserred: .H is clear that
the plea in Sison Kdman, reported IN Man.
Grang. $40, Is not correct. The plea, as IL is
ported in the La,p Journal Reports, is Just my bro
Tier Maule supposes - In addition to the foregoing
points of superiority in these Reports, they win
be found to contain many valuable not
elsewhere reported, while NO CAsE ANY other
other series will be omitted in this Arrangements
have been made whereby this series will contain
all the reported cases in the Jurst and Law Jour
nal; in Clark and Finnelly's Reports in the House
Of Lords; e. F. Moore's Reports in the Privy
| Council; the Reports of Simons, Hare Beavan, De
Gex and Small, and Macnaghten and Gordon, in
ming, Granger and Scott, and Wcsby, Hurlstone
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, and the Ecclesiastical Reports of Robertson
a combination of legal reports entirely unequailed
In any country.
Additional value will also be given to this serics
from the fact that, hereafter, they will be dgestcd
| 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.
BosroN, February, 1852.
Letters of Recommendation received from Judges of
| the United States Supreme Court.
| WASHINGTON, January 27, 1852.
| GENTLEMEN: 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 l have been able to look into them
they appear to be correctly and we'll executed
And if they continue to be rcpublshed with the
promptness of the volumes already out, and ut the
price mentioned, they will be great convenience
to the Bench and the Bar, and fail to attral
their attention. take pleasure in recommending
them.
am, with much respect, your obedicnt servant,
| ... r. b. TANEY.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN.
| WAsHIHaroN, 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
portant 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, 1850; also,
tCrown Cases Reserved. and Cases in the Ecclc.
siastica 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, are executed in a mos sub
stantia manner and do credit to the enterprise of
the publishers. ! became subscriber for them
they were found with the booksellers in the
West, and am convinced that from THEIR CHEAP
NESS AND EXTENT OF MATTER, THEY MUST SUPER
| sEDE, AT LEAST IN THIS COUNTRY, ALL OTHER ENG
LIsH REPORTS OF LATE DECIsoNs.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JOHN MCLEAN.
WASHINGTON, January 26, 1852.
Messrs LITTLE & BRowN: think you have laid
the profession under great obligations in the re-
publication of the "Engish 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 En- glish 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 mod-
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 PUBLICATION IN ENGLAND, A CONSIDERATION
OF THE FIRST IMPORTANCE; for, if the Reports of
cases decided arc 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.
WAsHlNGroN, January 26, 1852
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN-- Gentlemen: by your
publication of the English Law and Equity Re-
ports think an importa Mt benefit is conferred
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 chenpness, ought to be
sufficient recommendations to insure their general
use.
With great apect, am your obedicnt servant
B. r. CURTIS.
WAsHINoToH, SUPREME CoURT Room,
. February IT, 1852.
GENTLEMEN: have examined your republica.
ton of the current English and Common Law
Reports, and like very much the design and exc
cution oft.
Neither Judge lawyer can very well do
without the contemporary decisions of the Eng
lish Courts. have found them always so inetruc-
tive and useful, that | have hitherto read them in
any form in which they have been published.
Hereafter will do 60 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 &C ute ness
and with great learning.
Wishing your publication every success, i am,