The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-09-14
ENGLISH LAW AND EQUITY REPORTS.
To tho Legal Profession.

| ENGLISH Law AND EQUITY REPORTS.
To the Legal Profession.
VNHE FIRST YEAR Of the publication Of the
l. English Reports tn Lao aud Equity closes
with the sixth volume. Hereafter this series will
be published only in Voiunes, and the issue OF Sc
parate parts will be discontinued II is found that
the second part Of each volume follows 30 Iapldiy
after the first that the advantages OF publishing
by parts arc unmportant. Each volume will here
after appear once in two months, in the same size
and style heretofore, and at the same exceed
ingly low rate of 50 Pervolume to permanent sub
scrbers.
The profession need not be reminded that this 10
the only series of Reports, either in England or In
this country, which attempts to contain ALL the
decisions Of the English courts In 10 series
every reported case Except pris decisions) is
given in FULL, without condemnation or abridg-
ment, and the profession may rely upon having an
| accurate republication OF the English cases
Ii may be proper .so to state, that In Engian
there no regular reporters, authorized by law,
in this country, but that each series Of Reports
is there conducted solely a private enterprise,
by private reporters. And il ia believed that for
PRoMPrNEss, ACCURACY, CLEARNEss, land BIZ EvITy-
the essential requisites in any Reports-the Law
Journal and the Jurst Series, not surpassed by
any rival series in England, and they have often
Crofts Beale, Is Eng Rep, 4OS, tohert the com.
paratiue accuracy Of The Lao JournML Reports, and
the conte'nporam0us reports o. Manning q Gran
ger, as TO the true pieadings IN former case ,oas
tice of the COMMON Pleas, Obserued at Is clear that
the plea ia Sison Kidman, repoxted in Man.
& Grang. $40, not correct The plea, as as re.
ported in the La,D Journal Rsports just my bro
uer 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 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; E.. 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 Denson, Temple and New,
and e. w. Cox; the Admiralty Reports Of Robin
son, and the Ecclesiastical Reports of Rober tson-
a 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. 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 denomination receped from Judges of
the United States Supreme Court.
WAsHINGToS, January ~, 1882.
GENTLEMEN: My engagements here have not
permitted me to examine particularly your repub-
LEGATION of the English Reports in Law and Equity.
But, far l 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 fail to attra>
their attention. take pleasure in recommending
them.
am, with much respect, your obedient servant,
r. b. TANEY.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowN.
WAsHINGroN, January 10, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE BRowN: In the prompt repub
lication of the English Reports in Law and
Equity" you tender to the profession most i'm
por 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,
"Crown Cases Reserved, and Cases in the Eccle.
sastical 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 q most sub
santal MANNER and do credit to the enterprise of
the publishers. l became subscriber for them
soon they found with the booksellers in the
West, and am convinced, that from THEIR CHEAP
NEss AND EXTENT OF MATER THEY MUST SUPER
SIDE, AT LEAST IN THIS COUNTRY, ALL OTHER ENG
LIsH Reports OF LATE DECisioNs
Very respectfully, your obedent servant,
JOHN MCLEAN.
WASHINGTON, January 26 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRows: 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 nglish 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
I'm ri ri
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 profe ssion in
this country with the cases IMMEDIATELY AFTER
THE PUBLICATION IN ENoLAND, CONSIDERATIONS
OF THE FIRST IMPORTANCE; for, ii the Reports of
cases decided are OF any value, the sooner they
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.
SAMUEL NELSON.
WAsRINeroN, January &c, 1852.
Messrs. LITTLE & BaowN- 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 carly 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 be
sufficient recommendations to insure their general
use.
With great respect, am your obedient servant
B. r. CURTIS.
WARRINGTON, SUPREME CoURT Room,
February II, 1852.
GENTLEMEN: l have examined your repubica-
ton of the current English and Common Law
Reports, and like very much the design and exc
cution of it.
Neither judge nor lawyer very well do
without the contemporary decisions of the Eng
lish Courts have found them always go 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 daily acting upon
! cases presenting important and also new features
All of US must acknowledge that they are adjudi
Gated with very able nd discriminating acuteness,
| and with great learning.
Wishing your publication every success, I am,
gentlemen, respectfully, your obedisnt servant.
JAMES M. WAYNE.
Messrs. LITTLE & BRowu, Boston, Massachusetts.
WAsHINoTos, January %, 1852.