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 xix
... bamboo cangue perpetual fetters iron bar • branding . .63 64 64 64 . 67 . 68 69 71 . 71 71 Imprisonment - prisons — prisoners jailers . Fines and forfeitures do . IV Punishments countenanced but not legally recognised . exposure until ...
... bamboo cangue perpetual fetters iron bar • branding . .63 64 64 64 . 67 . 68 69 71 . 71 71 Imprisonment - prisons — prisoners jailers . Fines and forfeitures do . IV Punishments countenanced but not legally recognised . exposure until ...
Page lx
... bamboo , for trying to bring a criminal's offence to manslaughter instead of to murder ( H. A. H. L. Supp . vol . XVI . p . 30 ) . Natural paucity of legal litera- ture . 21. It naturally follows that since the practice of the Law is ...
... bamboo , for trying to bring a criminal's offence to manslaughter instead of to murder ( H. A. H. L. Supp . vol . XVI . p . 30 ) . Natural paucity of legal litera- ture . 21. It naturally follows that since the practice of the Law is ...
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... bamboo a provision not infrequently made use of in cases of doubt as to the proper treatment for a given case . Circonstances attenuantes are taken into consideration , but not by the lower court they must await the Autumn Revision ...
... bamboo a provision not infrequently made use of in cases of doubt as to the proper treatment for a given case . Circonstances attenuantes are taken into consideration , but not by the lower court they must await the Autumn Revision ...
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... bamboo , branding , fines ( rather by way of commutation , however , than an initial punishment ) . There are also other punishments countenanced , but not legally recognised e . g . exposure , castration . The orthodox classification ...
... bamboo , branding , fines ( rather by way of commutation , however , than an initial punishment ) . There are also other punishments countenanced , but not legally recognised e . g . exposure , castration . The orthodox classification ...
Page 56
... bamboo , the light bamboo : the death penalty being divisible into two forms - decapitation , and strangulation : transportation for life into three forms and the other varieties each into five forms . The division of Degrees of ...
... bamboo , the light bamboo : the death penalty being divisible into two forms - decapitation , and strangulation : transportation for life into three forms and the other varieties each into five forms . The division of Degrees of ...
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