Notes and Commentaries on Chinese Criminal Law, and Cognate Topics: With Special Relation to Ruling Cases. Together with a Brief Excursus on the Law of Property, Chiefly Founded on the Writings of the Late Sir Chaloner Alabaster ...Luzac & Company, 1899 - 677 pages |
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Page ix
... ( Board of Punishments , or Judiciary Board ) in Peking and naturally with a Board whose special functions are legal discipline , the bulk of the Criminal Law was allotted to it . It is accordingly only by a tour de force that ' hsing ...
... ( Board of Punishments , or Judiciary Board ) in Peking and naturally with a Board whose special functions are legal discipline , the bulk of the Criminal Law was allotted to it . It is accordingly only by a tour de force that ' hsing ...
Page xlii
... of cases which have been referred to Peking for consideration and published by the Judiciary Board thereunder the name of ch'en an for the guidance - of the Provincial Authorities which decisions are destined to be XLII INTRODUCTION.
... of cases which have been referred to Peking for consideration and published by the Judiciary Board thereunder the name of ch'en an for the guidance - of the Provincial Authorities which decisions are destined to be XLII INTRODUCTION.
Page xliii
... Boards at Peking , and they are further supplemented by the Liu Pu Tsê Lii.e. the Rules established by these offices to regulate the practice in regard thereto . the The Code is very full in respect of that portion of the Criminal Law ...
... Boards at Peking , and they are further supplemented by the Liu Pu Tsê Lii.e. the Rules established by these offices to regulate the practice in regard thereto . the The Code is very full in respect of that portion of the Criminal Law ...
Page xlix
... Board was of opinion , however , that nothing could be done . * * * distinctions a of law and § 10. Too great a desire to draw distinctions Desire to draw is one of the blots on the Chinese system of blot on Chinese system and fatal law ...
... Board was of opinion , however , that nothing could be done . * * * distinctions a of law and § 10. Too great a desire to draw distinctions Desire to draw is one of the blots on the Chinese system of blot on Chinese system and fatal law ...
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... Board when a question arises on which the two Codes clash ; for example , the case in which the knotty point had to be decided are mules and donkeys cattle ? The Board declined to say they had nothing to go on : they knew nothing about ...
... Board when a question arises on which the two Codes clash ; for example , the case in which the knotty point had to be decided are mules and donkeys cattle ? The Board declined to say they had nothing to go on : they knew nothing about ...
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