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 xliii
... according to the prevailing rule or custom of the trade they represent . * * between Lü and Li . § 4. The distinction between the Li and Distinction the Li seems to need some further explanation . The Li , then , are the fundamental ...
... according to the prevailing rule or custom of the trade they represent . * * between Lü and Li . § 4. The distinction between the Li and Distinction the Li seems to need some further explanation . The Li , then , are the fundamental ...
Page lxiii
... according to our ideas , a strange one . one . The judge in criminal matters has nominally no latitude . He has to determine what the facts are , and what article of the Code those facts agree with . The Code , then , constitutes of ...
... according to our ideas , a strange one . one . The judge in criminal matters has nominally no latitude . He has to determine what the facts are , and what article of the Code those facts agree with . The Code , then , constitutes of ...
Page lxv
... according to the circumstances . ** * *** tences most not carried out . § 27. In regard of capital sentences , it is to Capital sen- be noted that the sentence of death though often recorded , is in innumerable cases commuted as of ...
... according to the circumstances . ** * *** tences most not carried out . § 27. In regard of capital sentences , it is to Capital sen- be noted that the sentence of death though often recorded , is in innumerable cases commuted as of ...
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... according to circumstances . Thus , there being no special statutes relating to the traffic in paddy at the capital , but merely a general provision that the traffic is contrary to law , the special provisions in regard of the traffic ...
... according to circumstances . Thus , there being no special statutes relating to the traffic in paddy at the capital , but merely a general provision that the traffic is contrary to law , the special provisions in regard of the traffic ...
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... according as what we call the weight of evidence seems to incline to this side or to that . Chinese Courts do not weigh evidence but , after a careful cross - examination , narrowly scrutinize it , and decide according to the conviction ...
... according as what we call the weight of evidence seems to incline to this side or to that . Chinese Courts do not weigh evidence but , after a careful cross - examination , narrowly scrutinize it , and decide according to the conviction ...
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