The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-07-17

TIL E REPUBLIC.
ENGLISH Law AND EQUITY REPORTS.
To the Legal Profession.
THE FIRST YEAR of the publication Of the
i English Reports in Lalo and Equity closes
with the sixth volume. Hereafter this series will
be published only in uol1mes. and the issue Of
parate parts will be discontinued. 1t 10 found that
the second part of each volume follows 30 rapidly
alter the hrst, that the advantages OF publishing
by parts are unimportant Each volume will here
after appear once in two months, in the same size
md style as heretofore, and at the came exceed :
ingly low rate of 50 per volume to permanent sub
scribers. VIII. 81. IL"
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 nis prius decsions) Is
given in FULL, without condemnation or abridg-
accurate republication of the English cases.
II may be proper also to state, that in England
aaGre are no regular reporters, authorized Ry law,
is there conducted solely as private enterprise,
by private reporters. And it is believed that for
PRomPrNEss, ACCURACY, cLEARNEss,a land REviTy-
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 Beaie, Is Eng Rep, 40S, tphers the com
p,ratioe accuracy Of the La,o Journal Reports, and
The contemporaries reports Of Manning & Gran
GER as TO the true pleadings IN JSrner case,
directly inuo,psd In that case, Jrpis the Chief Jus
hee Of The Common Pleas, obserued: at is Clear that
TIE plea ia Sison vs. Kidman, as reported in Man.
Grang. $40, is not correct The plea, as Il is re
ported in the Latc Journal Reports, is just my bro
her MG,iie supposes" In addition to the foregoing
points of superiority in these Reports, they win
be found to contain many valuable cases not
elsewhere reDOrted. while 4 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
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 Gosdon, 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 Eccesiastical Reports of Rober tson-
combination of legal reports entirely unequalled
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 Digest
The first six volumes will be contained in Vol. "
of the Annual Digest, now in press.
We also beg leave to refer the reader to the an
nexed recommendations.
BosToN, February, 1852.
Letters of Recommendation rsceiped from Judges Of
the United States Supreme Court.
WAsHINGroN, 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 well executed.
And if they continue to be republished 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 attract
heir / tai 10 MI in Il
them.
lam, with much respect, your obedient servant.
r. b. TANEY.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN.
WAsHINGToN, January 10, 1852.
Mcssrs. LITTLE & BRowN: In the prompt repub
LEGATION of the "Englsh 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,
Grown Cases Reserved, and Cases in the Eccle-
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 most sub
stantial manner and do credit to the enterprise of
the publishers. ! became subscriber for them as
soon as they were found with the booksellers in the
West, and am convinced, that from THEIR CHEAP
NsoS AMI EAIENT VI NATTER THEY MUST SUPER
sEpE, A" LEAST IN THIS COUNTRY, ALL OTHER ENG
LIsH REPORTS OF LATE DECISIONS.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JOHN MCLEAN.
WAsHiNaToN, January 26, 1852.
Nlessrs. LITTLE & BRowN: 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 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 modi
fled, daily administered by the courts of this coun-
try. And however modified these systems may
he, it is manifest that these decisions must sheo
great light upon the investigation of most Of the
cases arising here.
Your plan, also, will furnish the profession n
this country with the cases IMMEDIATELY AFTER
THE PUBLICATION IN ENGLANp, A coNsIpERATIoN
OF THE FIRST IMPORTANCE; for, if the Reports OF
cases decided are of any value the sooner they
are in the hands of the prol6ssion 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.
WAsHINGToN, January 26, 1852
Messrs. LITTLE Il BRowN-- Gentlemen: By your
publication Of the English Law and Equity Re.
ports, think an important benefit ia 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 a period
far within those OF any Court in our own coun.
try, together with their cheapncss ought to be
sufficient recommendations to insure their general
use.
With great respect, l am your obedient servant
B. R. CURTIS.
WAsHINeToN, SUPREME CoURr Room,
February II, 1852
GEsTLEMEN: 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 dc
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 upor
cases presenting important and also new feature
All of us must acknowledge that they are adiud
Gated with very able and discriminating acu ness