The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-05-28

To the Legal Profe ssi ON.

ENGLISH Law AND EQUITY REPORTS.
To the Legal Profession.
VNHE FIRST YEAR Of the publication Of tho
i English Reports in Law and Equity closes
with the sixth volume. Hereafter this series will
be published only in voiumss and the issue OF Sc
parate parts will be discontinued. II 10 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
ingly low rate OF ~ per volume to permanent Sub
scrbers.
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 Is series
every reported case Except nis prus decisons) 10
given in FULL, without condemnation abrdg-
ment, and the profession may rely upon having an
accurate republication of the English cases.
Il may be proper .so TO state, that in England
there no regular reporters, authorized by law,
as ia this country but that each series Of Reports
is there conducted solely as a private enterprise,
by private reporters. And it 10 believed that for
PRomPTNEss, ACCURACY, oLEARNEss, and BREviTy-
the essential requisites in any Reports-the Law
Journal and the Juris Series, are not surpassed by
any rival series in England, and they have often
Crofts Beae, (5 Eng Rep, 4OS, tchere The COM
paratipe accuracy Of the Laio Journal Reports. and
the confemporaneous reports Of Manning q Gran
GER as to the true peadings in former case, ioas
directly inroUed In that case JerUis. the ChiJ Jus
tice0f the Common Pleas, Observed: IN is clear that
the plea IN Sson us. Kidman, az reported in Man.
Grang. $40, is not correct. The plea, as IL isre
ported in the LaiD Journal RSports Just my bro
Tier Maule supposss" 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 Finnelly's Reports in the House
of Lordsj K. F. Moore's Reports in the Priyy
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 Gordon, in the Common Law Courts; also the
Criminal Reports of Denison, Temple and New,
and +. w. Cox; the Admiralty Reports Of Robin
son, and the Ecclesiastical Reports Of Robertson
a combination of legal reports entirely unequallcd
in any country.
Additional value will also be given to this series
from the fact that hereafter they will be digested
in the ual volumes Of the United States Digest
The first sit 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.
BosToN, February, 1852.
Letters of Recommendation receired from Judges Of
the United States Supreme Court.
WAsHINGToN, January 81, 1882
GENTLEMEN: My engagements here have not
permitted me to examine particularly your repub
lcation 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 repubished with the
promptness of the volumes already out, and Mt the
price mentioned they will be great convenience
to the Bench and the Bar and cannot fail to attract
their attention. take pleasure in recommending
them.
am, with much respect, your obedent servant,
r. b. TANEY.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowS.
WAsHIsGroH, January 10, 1882.
Messrs. LITTLE & Baown: 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 decided in the House OF Lords,
Privy Council, Courts OF Equity and Common Law,
from and after Michaelmas Term, 1850; also,
eCrown 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 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
stanal manner, and do credit to the enterprise Of
the publishers. i became a subscriber for them as
soon as they found with the booksellers in the
West, and am convinced that from THEIR CHEAP
SEss AND EXTENT OF MATTER. THEY MUST SUPER
sEpE, AT LEAST IN THIS COUNTRY, ALL OTHER ENG
LIsH REPORTS OF LATE DECISIONS.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JOHN MCLEAN.
WAsHINeToN, January 20, 1852.
Messrs LITTLE & Bnows: 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 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
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