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 vi
... the latest edition of the Code , clause by clause ; and the operation of the law would have been illustrated by selected cases relating to and placed under the appropriate - clauses . The work would then have been periodically VI PREFACE.
... the latest edition of the Code , clause by clause ; and the operation of the law would have been illustrated by selected cases relating to and placed under the appropriate - clauses . The work would then have been periodically VI PREFACE.
Page viii
... comprehensive import than is the case with us . The Code for instance has a distinct division marked off as " Criminal " Law " , consisting of the discussion of such ww offences as homicide , larceny , etc. This division VIII PREFACE.
... comprehensive import than is the case with us . The Code for instance has a distinct division marked off as " Criminal " Law " , consisting of the discussion of such ww offences as homicide , larceny , etc. This division VIII PREFACE.
Page ix
... Code , in the Supplementary Laws , and in authoritative treatises . Indeed to style the aforesaid division in the Code Criminal Law ' is confusing and I have only done so in deference to custom . What the title really implies is that ...
... Code , in the Supplementary Laws , and in authoritative treatises . Indeed to style the aforesaid division in the Code Criminal Law ' is confusing and I have only done so in deference to custom . What the title really implies is that ...
Page xiv
... Code and the Supplementary Laws . Its characteristics are lucidity and directness of expression . The number of references made to one or other of these collections is very great , and I have endeavoured that these references shall be ...
... Code and the Supplementary Laws . Its characteristics are lucidity and directness of expression . The number of references made to one or other of these collections is very great , and I have endeavoured that these references shall be ...
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... Code . * * * * * § 2. A tendency to codify may be remarked . throughout the whole course of Chinese legal history - a natural effect of the paternal despotism which has throughout all ages been the prevailing form of constitution . As ...
... Code . * * * * * § 2. A tendency to codify may be remarked . throughout the whole course of Chinese legal history - a natural effect of the paternal despotism which has throughout all ages been the prevailing form of constitution . As ...
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