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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... allowed to lay informations or to make complaint on any matter whatsoever , save only as regards complaints against prison underlings re ill treatment , or informations regarding other offences committed by themselves or by accessories ...
... allowed to lay informations or to make complaint on any matter whatsoever , save only as regards complaints against prison underlings re ill treatment , or informations regarding other offences committed by themselves or by accessories ...
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... allowed . MANNER OF CONSIDERING A CASE IN GENERAL In a Chinese case regard is paid to three points , the facts , the circumstances , and the relative position of the parties . The first fix the character of the offence , the third the ...
... allowed . MANNER OF CONSIDERING A CASE IN GENERAL In a Chinese case regard is paid to three points , the facts , the circumstances , and the relative position of the parties . The first fix the character of the offence , the third the ...
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... allowed . The Board , however , remarked that a precedent which has been once upset must not again be quoted . ( P. A. S. P. vol . VII . p . 1 ) . EVIDENCE Chinese Courts pay little regard to direct statements ; the witnesses are not ...
... allowed . The Board , however , remarked that a precedent which has been once upset must not again be quoted . ( P. A. S. P. vol . VII . p . 1 ) . EVIDENCE Chinese Courts pay little regard to direct statements ; the witnesses are not ...
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... allowed to keep silent by reason of their relationship to the accused , persons eighty years of age or over , children ten years of age or under , and idiots , are not to be allowed to testify , for they have no penalty to fear if they ...
... allowed to keep silent by reason of their relationship to the accused , persons eighty years of age or over , children ten years of age or under , and idiots , are not to be allowed to testify , for they have no penalty to fear if they ...
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... allowed a corresponding deduction from the punishment he is sentenced to . Thus , if the prisoner has been beaten to a jelly in the course of his trial , or , as it is technically described , has been warmly ' questioned , it is taken ...
... allowed a corresponding deduction from the punishment he is sentenced to . Thus , if the prisoner has been beaten to a jelly in the course of his trial , or , as it is technically described , has been warmly ' questioned , it is taken ...
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