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
... actually so embodied . The laws are divided into six divisions , corresponding to the six 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 ...
... actually so embodied . The laws are divided into six divisions , corresponding to the six 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 ...
Page lxvi
... actually executed , for in nearly every case a capital sentence must , before it is carried out , be submitted to the Board at Peking for revision . * * to mitigation . § 29. There are also many other LXVI INTRODUCTION.
... actually executed , for in nearly every case a capital sentence must , before it is carried out , be submitted to the Board at Peking for revision . * * to mitigation . § 29. There are also many other LXVI INTRODUCTION.
Page lxvii
... actually undergoing punishment , such as a convict serving his sentence of penal servitude or of banishment to a penal settlement , may live in hope that his punishment will be reduced or remitted under an Act of Grace a measure of ...
... actually undergoing punishment , such as a convict serving his sentence of penal servitude or of banishment to a penal settlement , may live in hope that his punishment will be reduced or remitted under an Act of Grace a measure of ...
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... actually to be executed , a special official is appointed by the High Authorities therefor , and is liable for wilful delay therein . Magistrates who authorise an execution , without waiting for the Imperial rescript , incur a ...
... actually to be executed , a special official is appointed by the High Authorities therefor , and is liable for wilful delay therein . Magistrates who authorise an execution , without waiting for the Imperial rescript , incur a ...
Page 38
... actually commit suicide by hanging , by way of friendly office and with the full consent of the said suicide , the kindly friend will be treated as an accessory , and the suicide himself as principal ( case of Hsien Hu - pên ...
... actually commit suicide by hanging , by way of friendly office and with the full consent of the said suicide , the kindly friend will be treated as an accessory , and the suicide himself as principal ( case of Hsien Hu - pên ...
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