The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-05-12
EScLIsH Law AND EQUITY nEpoRTs.
TO the Legal Profession.

ENGLISH LAW AND EQUITY REPORTS.
To the Legal Profession.
| TIyHE FIRST YEAR of the publication Of the
- English Reports IN LG0 and Equity closes
with the sixth volume. Hereafter this series will
be published only in c0lumes, 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 arc unimportant. 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 So 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
decisions of the English courts In Il is series
every reported case Except nis prius decisons) lie
given in FULL, without condensation or abridg-
ment, and the profession may rely upon having
accurate republication Of the English cases.
| II may be proper also to state, that in England
| there are no regular reporters, authorized by law,
as IN this country but that each series of Reports
! 10 there conducted solely as private enterprise,
i by private reporters. And it is believed that for
PRoMPTNEss, ACCURACY, cLEARNEss, and REviTY-
the essential requisites in any Reports-the Law
journal, and the Juris Series, 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, 40S, iohere the COM
pardhoe accuracy Of the LaU Journal Reports. and
ger, as to the true pieddings former case, ,cas
directly inuoiced. In that case, JerUis the Chi JUS
tce of the Common Pleas, obserued .s is clear that
the plea ~ Sson rs. Kidman, a reported in 3 Man.
Grang. $40, Is not correct The plea, as u is re
ported in the Lao Journal Reports Just as my bro
tier Manie Supp0ses." In addition to the foregoing
points Of superiority in these Reports, they will
! 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 cases in the Jurist and Law Jour
nal; in Clark and Nnnelly's Reports in the Houec
OF Lords; E. F. Moore's Reports in the Privy
Council; the Reports of Siinons, Hare, Beavan, De
Gex and Small, and Macnaghten and Gordon, in
| the Courts OF Equity; Adophus and Ellis, Man
| ming, Granger and Scott, and Wesby, Hurlstone
and Gordon, in the Common Law Courts; also the
Criminal Reports OF Denson, Temple and New,
and E. w. Cox; the Admiralty Reports of Robin.
son, and the Ecclesiastical Reports of Robertson
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 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.
nexed recommendations.
| BosToN February, 1852.
Letters Of Recommendation received from Judges of
The United States Supreme Court.
WAsHIsGToN, January 81, 1852
! GEsTLEMEN: My engagements here have not
| permitted me TO examine particularly your repub
LEGATION OF the English Reports in Law and Equity
l. he
they appear to be correctly and well executed
And II they continue to be republished with the
promptness of the volumes already out, and at the
price mentioned, they will be great COW enence
TO the Bench and the Bar and cannot fail to attract
their attention. take pleasure in recommending
them
am, with much respect your obcdient servant,
X. b. TANEY.
Messrs LITTLE & BRowN.
WAsHISGToN, January l9, 1852
Messrs LITTLE & BaowN: In the prompt renub
LEGATION Of the English Reports in Law and
Equity" you tender to the profession a most i'm.
portant service. The fret volume of these Reports
includes cases decided in the House of Lords
Pnvy Council, Courts OF Equity and Common Law,
from and after Michaelmas Term, 1850; ALSO
Grown Cases Reserved, and Cases in the Eccle.
siastcal and Admiralty Courts" And the second.
third, fourth and fifth volumes, which you have re-
published, include the cnses decided in the above
courts in 1851.
These Reports, like all other works which pro.
coed from your press are executed in most sub.
stantal manner, and do credit TO the enterprise of
the publishers. j became subscriber for them as
soon as they were found with the booksellers in the
West, and am convinced, that from THEIR CHEAP
NESS AND EXTENT OF MATTER. THEY MUST SUPER
sEDR, AT LEAST IN THIS COUNTRY, ALL OTHER ENG. |
LisH REPORTS OF LATE DECISIONS.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JOHN MCLEAN.
WAsHIseToN January 26, 1852
Messrs. LITTLE & BRows: | 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 |
viii enable the bar generally in this way 10 fur.
nish their libraries with the current English Re. |
pora, oil which many Of them have heretofore been
deprived. They will thus have ready access 10 |
the dec sions Of courts sitting at the fountain
head OF the law, whence have been derived for the
most part, the several systems, or less modi-
fed, daily administered by the courts of this coun
try. And. however modified these systems NAV
be, il 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 profcssion in |
this country with the cases ImmEDiArELY AFTER |
THE PUBLICATION IN ESoLAND,A cossIpERArios |
OF THE FIRsT IMPoRTAscE; for, if the Reports Of |
CAGES decided arc of any value, the sooner thew |
are In the hands OF the profession the better I |
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
wAsHISsTos, January 26, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE BRows- Gentlemen. By your |
publication Of the English Law and Equity Re- |
porte, think 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 10 a period |
far within those Of any Court In our own coun-
try, together with their cheapness ought 10 be |
sufficient recommendations TO insure their general
use.
With great rcspcct, am your obedcnt servant, |
b; II. CURTIS.
wAsHrSoToS, SUPREME Couar ROOM.
February IL, 1852.
GESTLEMEs: have examined your rcpubIica- |
lion Of the current English and Common Law
Reports, and like very much the design and exe- |
cuiiou Of it,
Neither judge nor lawyer can very well do |
without the contemporary decisions of the Eng. |
iish 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 nctino pnon |
cases presenting important and also new features I
All OF US must acknowledge that they are adudi |