The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-07-02
Law AND EQUITY REPORTS
To the Legal Profession.

i English Reports in Lao and Equity closes
with the sixth volume. Hereafter this series will
be published only in polumes and the issue Of Sc
parate parts will be discontinued. II ia 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
'ngy low rate OF 81 per volume to permanent sub-
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 this series
every reported case Except nsi prus decsions) lie
| given in FULL, without condensation or abridg.
| ment, and the profession may rely upon having an
| accurate republication Of the English cases.
IL may be proper ,lso 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 q private enterprise,
by private reporters. And it is believed that for
| PRoMPTNEss, ACCURACY, CLEARNKss, and DR EvITY-
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 of
Croits Us Beale, Is Eng Rep, 40s,) tDhere the
The contemporan'ous reports Of Manning & Gran
ger, az TO the true pieadings in former case,
directly inroloed. In thatcass Jsrrts the Chis JUS
tice Of The Common Pleas, observed: ''H is cIar that
ne pfed ~ Sison Us. kidman, reported IN Man.
Grang. $40, is not correct. The plea, as 1t isre
parted in the Laip Journal Rsports is just as my bro
ther Maule supposes" In addition to the foregoing
points OF superiority in these Reports, they viii
| be found TO contain many valuable cases not
| elsewhere reported, while NO CASE IN ANY other
other series will be omitted in this. Arrangements
have been made whereby this series will contain
all the reported in the Jurist and Law Jour-
nal; in Clark and Finnelly's Reports in the House
| of Lords; F. Moore's Reports in the Privy
Council; the Reports Of Simons, 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, Hurlstone
and Gord0h, in the Common Law Courts; also the
Criminal Reports of Denison, Temple and New,
| and E. W. Cox; the Admiralty Reports Of Robin
con, andthe Ecclesiastical Reports of Robertson
combination of legal reports entirely unequalled
in any country. 49,
Additional value will also be given to this series
from the fact that hereafter they will be digested
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.
WAsHINsroN, January 81, 1852.
GENTLEMEN: My engagements here have not
permitted me to examine particularly your repub
LEGATION OF the English Reports in Law and Equity.
But, as far as ! have been able to look into Them
they appear to be correctly and we'll executed.
And il they continue to be repubshed 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 attrac>
their attention. l take pleasure in recommending
them.
am, with much respect, your obedient servant,
r. B. TANEY.
Messrs. LITTLE & Brown.
WAsHINaToN, January 10, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN: 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 Michaelmas Term, 1850; also,
tCrown Cases Reserved, and Cases in the Eccle-
siasticel 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-
stantial manner, and do credit to the enterprise of
the publishers ! became subscriber for them as
soon they were found with the booksellers in the
West, and am convinced, that from THEIR CHEAP
sEDE, AT LEAST IN THIS COUNTRY, ALL OTHER ENG
LIsH Reports LATE DECISIONS
Very respectfully, pour obedient servant,
JOHN MCLEAN.
WAsHINGroN, January 26, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE s. BRowN: think you have laid
the profession under great obligations, in the re-
publication Of the English Reports in Law and
The low price at which the volumes are offered,
will enable the bar generally in this way to fur.
nsh their Libraries with the current English Re-
deprived. They will thus have 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 less modi-
fed daily administered by the courts of this coun
try. And, however modified these systems NAV
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
THE country with the cases IMMEDIATELY AFTER
THE PUBLICATION IN ESaLAND, coNsIDERArIoN
OF THE FIRST IMPoRTANcE; for. if the Reports of
cases decided are 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. -r..
am, with great respect, your obediont servant,
SAMUEL NELSON.
WAsHrNGToN, January 26, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN- 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 own coun-
try, together with their chenpness, ought to be
sufficient recommendations to insure their general
use
With great respect, am your obcdent servant
u. r. CURTIS.
WAsHINaTos, SUPREME CouRT Room,
February IT, 1852.
GENrLEmEN: have examined your republica-
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 we'll do
without the contemporary decisions of the Eng
lish Courts. have found them always 80 instruc-
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 features
All of us must acknowledge that they are adjudi-
Gated with very able and discriminating acuteness
| and with great learning. ....
Wishing your publication every success, l am,
gentlemen, respectfully, your obedient servant,
JAMES M. WAYNE.
| Messrs LITTLE & BRovN, Boston, Massa chusetts.
WAsHINsToN, January IS, 1852.
| GENTLEMEN: publication like that in which