The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-10-20
ENGLISH LAW AND EQUITY REPORTS.
To the Legal Profession.

To the Legal Profession.
VNHE FIRST YEAR of the publication of the
English Reports in Lao aud Equity closes
with the sixth volume. Hereafter this series will
be published only in Uolumss 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 per volume to permanent SUBJ
scribers.
The profession need not be reminded thai this ia
the only series OF Reports, either in ENGLAND or in
TINS country, which atte..,p to contain ALL the
Oh English courts. In this series
reported case Except nisi prius decisions) 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 also to state, that in England
there arc regular reporters, authorized by law,
as in this country but that each series Of Reports
is there conducted solely as private enterprise,
by private reporters. And it Is believed that for
| PRoMPrNKss, ACCURACY, cLEARNEss,a land BIZ EvITY~
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 us Beale, Is Eng Rep, 4OS,) ,ohere the com
paratipe accuracy Of the La,o Journal Reports, and
the contemporaries reports Of Manning r Gran
directly Involved In that case JerUis, the Chief JUS
tice Of the Common Pleas, Observed: at is clear that
the plea tn Sison Us. Kidman, as reported in Man
& Grang. $40, is not correct The plea, as il is re
ported in the La,u Journal Reports Just as my bro
thsr Mauie supposes " 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 AMY 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 Finney's Reports in the House
Of Lords; e. F. Moore's Reports in the Privy
~ n e.
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
and E. W. Cox the Admiralty Reports of Robin
son, and the Ecclesiastical Reports of Robertson
combination Of legal reports entirely unequaled
| In any country.
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.
BosToN, February, 1852.
Letters of Recommendation received from Judges of
the United States Supreme Court.
WAsHINGToN, January 81, 1852.
GENTLEMEN: My engagements here have not
permitted me to examine particularly your repub-
LEGATION of the Err fish 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 if 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. take pleasure in recommending
them.
! am, with much respect, your obedient servant,
r. b. TANEY.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN.
WAsHINGToN, January l9, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE s. BRowN In the prompt repub
caton of the "EngIish Reports in Law and
Equity" you tender to the profession a 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 Mchaemas Term, 1850; also,
"Crown Cases Reserved, and Cases in the Eccle-
siastical and Admiralty Courts" And the second,
third, fourth and fifth Volumes which you have
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.
stantial manner, and do credit to the enterprise Of
the publishers. | became subscriber for them
soon as they were found with the booksellers in the
West, and am convinced, that from THEIR CHEAP
MESS AND EXTENT OF MATTER, THEY MUST SUPER
sEDE, AT LEAST IN THIS COUNTRY, ALL OTHER ENG
LIsH REPORTS OF LATE DECISIONS.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JOHN MCLEAN.
WARRINGTON, January 70, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN: | think you have laid
the profession under great obligations, in the
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-
fed daily administered by the courts of this
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 PUsLcATIoN IN ENGLAND, CONSIDERATIONS
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.
am, with great respect, your obediont servant,
SAMUEL NELSON.
WAsHINGToN, January 26, 1852.
Mcssrs. LITTLE BRowN- Gentlemen: By your
publication of the English Law and Equity Re-
ports, / think an important 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 cheapness, ought to he
sufficient recommend atons to insure their general
With great reercct, am your obedient servant
b. Z. CURTIS.
WAsHINGToN, 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
cuton oft.
Neither judge nor lawyer can very we'll do
without the contemporary decisions of the Eng
lish Courts. have found them always 80 nstruc-
tive and useful, that have hitherto read them in
any form in which they have been published.
Hereafter will do so in you're.
The Courts in England are daily acting upon
cascs presenting important and also new features,
ALI of ia must mo ledre that thcv nre adiudi-