An American edition of the Reports of the younger Vesey, has, it is believ ed, been long desired by the profession. While the adjudications of the English common law courts, and even their hasty and unauthoritative decisions at Nisi Prius, have been reprinted and widely circulated in this country, it is a matter of surprise that the judgments of the Courts of Equity should have so long remained inaccessible to the great majority of the members of the bar. It cannot be denied that an acquaintance with the law as it has been laid down of late years, on those branches which fall within the cognizance of the English Court of Chancery, however the system of administering equity may have been changed in some of the United States, is of great utility and interest. Within the period embraced by the Reports of Mr. Vesey, many very important cases have been decided, on subjects interesting in the present condition of the United States; a sufficient knowledge of which cannot be obtained through the medium of general treatises. Of the merits of the volumes now proposed to be republished, it is perhaps unnecessary to speak The character of Mr. Vesey, as a most faithful and accurate reporter, the excellence of his arrangement, and the great importance of many of the decisions, have long been ac. knowledged. It may not be amiss, however, to add the following testimonial of the author of a late excellent work, on the principles of the Court of Chancery. "I cannot here deny myself the pleasure of remarking how greatly the profession is indebted to Mr. Vesey, jr. for his Reports of Cases in Chancery for a series of years. They are valuable for the judgment shown in the selection, and for their extraordinary fidelity." 1. The above Reports and Index will consist of 22 vols. royal 8vo. printed on fine paper and handsome type. 2. The price to subscribers will be four dollars and a half per vol. in boards, five dollars handsomely bound, or five dollars and three quarters, in calf. The London Edition, when procurable, sold for Two HUNDRED DOLLARS. Complete sets cannot now be imported, as some of the volumes are out of print in London. To non-subscribers the price will be raised to Six dollars per volume, bound in sheep. 3. Those persons obtaining subsciptions for nine copies, and paying for them, shall receive a copy gratis. 4. It is now in the press, and will be finished with as much expedition as possible. 5. To accommodate those gentlemen who have purchased the vols. formerly published in this country, the publishers will print an extra number of vols. from 6 inclusive to the end, and will supply any vols. that may be required to complete sets, provided they are ordered before the work is printed. 6. Vols. 1 to 5 inclusive are now ready for delivery-two more will appear each month until the work is completed. Payment to be made on delivery. VI. MODERN CHANCERY REPORTS, CONSISTING OF 1. CASES argued and determined in the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, during the time of LORD CHANCELLOR ELDON; in Hilary, Easter, and Trinity Terms, 1815, with a few cases of an earlier period. By GEORGE COOPER, Esq. Barrister at Law. In one volume. 2. REPORTS of CASES argued and determined in the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, from Michaelmas Term, 1815, to Michaelmas Term, 1817. By J. H. MERIVALE, Esq. In three volumes. 3. REPORTS of CASES argued and determined in the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, from before Hilary Term, 1818. By J. WILSON, Esq. and continued to the present time by C. T. SWANSTON, Esq. In three volumes. These Reports are a continuation of the series by Vesey, jun. and Vesey and Beaines, in the publication of which M. C. & S. are now engaged. They will be put to press as soon as the others are com pleted, which will be about the close of the present year, and finished with as much expedition as practicable. TERMS. 1. They shall be printed on the same type and paper, and match exactly with Vesey's Reports. 2. The price to subscribers will be five dollars per volume in sheep. To non-subscribers the price will be raised. 3. Those persons who obtain subscribers for nine copies, and pay for them, shall have a tenth copy gratis. VII. EARLY CHANCERY REPORTS From EQUITY CASES ABRIDGED, which commence at the earliest authentic period, to BROWN'S REPORTS, which terminate in 1795, about which time F. VESEY, jun. commenced his REPORTS. Each work will contain notes and references to the subsequent English, and to the American Decisions. They will be published in the following order : 1. A GENERAL ABRIDGMENT of CASES in EQUITY, argued and determined in the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, &c. with a large collection of Cases never before published. To which are added, Additional References to the present time, and an Alphabetical Table of the Names of the Cases. By A GENTLEMAN of the MIDDLE TEMPLE. In 3 vols. Royal 8vo. 2. CASES argued and adjudged in the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY from 1680 to 1719. Originally put ished by order of the Court, from the Manuscripts of THOMAS VERNON, late of the Middle Temple, Esq. From the second London edition, to which are added References to the Proceedings in the Court and to later Cases; together with Tables of the Names of the Principal Cases, and of the Cases cited in the Notes; also of the principal matters, and of the matters contained in the Notes. By JoHN RAITHBY, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister at Law. In 3 vols. Royal 8vo. 3. PRECEDENTS in CHANCERY; being a collection of Cases argued and adjudged in the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, from the year 1689 to 1722. From the second edition, revised and cor 3 rected, with Notes and References to the former and latter Reports. By THOMAS FINCH, Esq. In 1 vol. 4. REPORTS of CASES argued and determined in the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, and of some Special Cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench: collected by WILLIAM PEERE WILLIAMS, Esq. published with Notes and References, and two Tables to each volume: one, of the Names of the Cases; the other, of the Principal Matters; by his son WILLIAM PEERE WILLIAMS, Esq. From the fifth London edition, with Additional References to the Proceedings in the Court and to later Cases. By SAMUEL COMPTON Cox, Esq. In 3 vols. 5. REPORTS of CASES argued and determined in the HIGIE COURT of CHANCERY, during the time of LORD CHANCELLOR KING. Collected by WILLIAM MOSELEY, Esq. Published with Notes and many thousand References, and two Tables; one, of the Names of the Cases; the other, of the Principal Matters. 6. CASES in EQUITY during the time of LORD CHANCELLOR TALBOT: with Tables of the Names of the Cases, and Principal Matters. From the third edition, with References to the Proceedings in the Court, and to later Cases. By JOHN GRIFFITH WILLIAMS, Esq. The above two works being small, will form but one volume. 7. REPORTS of CASES argued and determined in the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, in the time of LORD CHANCELLOR HARDWICKE, from 1736 to 1754. Collected and methodised by JOHN TRACY ATKYNS, Esq. Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer; with Notes, References, and three Tables; one of the several Titles and their Divisions; another, of the Names of the Cases; and a third, of the Principal Matters. From the third edition, revised and corrected; with Notes and References to former and modern determinations, and to the Register's Books. By FRANCIS WM. SAUNDERS, Esq. author of the Essay on Uses and Trusts. In 3 vols. 8. REPORTS of CĂSES argued and determined in the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, in the time of LORD CHANCELLOR HARDWICKE, from 1746-7 to 1755, by FRANCIS VESEY, Sen. Esq. Barrister at Law, and late one of the Masters in Chancery in Ireland. From the fourth edition, comprising References to the Register's books, to the Supplement to these Reports, and to subsequent Determinations; together with Marginal Notes, and a very copious Index, newly compiled. By ROBERT BELT, Esq. of the Inner Temple, Barrister at Law. In 2 vols. 9. SUPPLEMENT to the REPORTS of FRANCIS VESEY, Sen. By ROBERT BELT, Esq. In 1 vol. 10. REPORTS of CASES argued and adjudged in the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY. Collected by JOHN DICKENS, Esq. late Senior Register of that Court. Revised by JOHN WYATT, Esq. Two vols. in one. 11. REPORTS of CASES argued and determined in the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, from 1757 to 1766. From the Original Manuscripts of LORD CHANCELLOR NORTHINGTON, collected and arranged, with Notes and References to former and subsequent determinations, and to the Register's books. By the Hoh ROBERT HENRY EDEN, of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister at law. Two vols. in one. 12. REPORTS of CASES argued and determined in the HIGII COURT of CHANCERY, with some few in other Courts. By CHARLES AMBLER, Esq. one of his Majesty's Counsel at Law, and Attorney-General to the Queen. In 1 vol. 13. CASES determined in the COURTS of EQUITY, from 1789 to 1796 inclusive, with a few of earlier date, by Lord HARDWICKE and Lord NORTHINGTON. BY SAMUEL COMPTON Cox. 2 vols. in one. 14. REPORTS of CASES argued and determined in the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, during the time of LORD CHANCELLOR THURLOW, of the several LORDS COMMISSIONERS of the GREAT SEAL, and of LORD CHANCELLOR LOUGHBOROUGH, from 1778 to 1794, with an Appendix of Cotemporary Cases, by WILLIAM BROWN, Esq. Barrister at Law. From the fourth edition, with References to former and subsequent determinations, and to the Register's books. By ROBERT BELT. In four volumes. 1. Equity Cases Abridged 3. Precedents in Chancery 10. Dickens's Reports 12. Ambler's Reports SUMMARY. 13. Cox's Cases in Equity 14. Brown's Reports TERMS. Vols. 25 1. The above Reports will consist of 25 volumes Royal 8vo. II. They shall be printed on the same type and paper, and match exactly with Vesey's Reports. III. To those who subscribe for the set, the price will be four dollars and fifty cents per vol. in boards, five dollars in sheep, and five dollars and seventy. five cents in calf. Those Gentlemen who subscribe for only a part of the series, will be supplied with them at the following prices :- 1. Equity Cases Abridged, 3 vols. bound in sheep 2. Vernon's Reports, 3 vols. 3. Precedents in Chancery 4. Peere Williams, 3 vols. 5. Moseley's Reports 6. Cases Temp. Talbot 8. Vesey, sen's. Reports, 2 vols. 9. Belt's Supplement to do. 1 vol. 10 Dickens's Reports, 2 vols. in one 11. Eden's Reports, 2 vols in one 12. Ambler's Reports 13. Cox's Cases, 2 vols. in one 14. Brown's Reports, 4 vols. $15 00 15 Ꮝ 5 00 17.00 4.00 3 00 19 00 12 00 5 00 5 00 600 5 50 6 00 22 00 $139 30 In boards they will be fifty cents per vol. less, and in calf seventy-five cents per vol. more than these prices. To non-subscribers the price will be raised. IV. Should the patronage be sufficient to warrant the publication, it will be commenced immediately after the conclusion of Vesey's Reports, which will about the close of the year 1821. There will be about 2 volumes per month printed, which will complete the series about the close of the year 1822. V. Those persons obtaining Nine subscribers, and paying for their books, hall receive a Tenth copy gratis. The works now announced will form a complete series of CHANCERY REPORTS, from the EARLIEST AUTHENTIC PERIOD to the PRESENT TIME. The whole will be comprised in $4 vols. The very favourable reception by the profession of their proposals for publishing the Reports of the Younger Vesey, has induced the subscribers to extend their views, confident that the increased, and inreasing importance of the Chancery Jurisdiction in the United States, affords sufficient prospect of succeeding in the important undertaking they now contemplate. Their experience as Booksellers has led to a knowledge of the difficulties which Gentlemen of the Bar encounter in forming complete libraries, and the enormous expense attending the importation of the works not reprinted in the United States, as well as the frequent disappointments experienced in procuring those of an early date, even when expense is disregarded. Heretofore the demand for Reporters in the Court of Chancery has been more readily sup plied than at present; the state of property, questions of which alone, come before a Court of Chancery, has occasioned a limited demand, which has gradually increased as the augmented population of the country rendered the advantages of the jurisdiction daily more sensible. A circumstance which has operated to increase the difficulty of procuring the early reporters, by increasing the demand, is that of their superiority in point of authority. In many of the States, decisions of the Court of Chancery in England, to the commencement |