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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... capital sentences . 27 Inequality of action of Courts . 29 do . IV - Principal and accomplice . do . V - Absence of malice . Confrontation of offenders · 31 4I parties apprehended etc. within different jurisdictions • 41 . • · 41 ...
... capital sentences . 27 Inequality of action of Courts . 29 do . IV - Principal and accomplice . do . V - Absence of malice . Confrontation of offenders · 31 4I parties apprehended etc. within different jurisdictions • 41 . • · 41 ...
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... capital sentences , it is to Capital sen- be noted that the sentence of death though often recorded , is in innumerable cases commuted as of course to terms of penal servitude , transportation to lesser or greater distances from the ...
... capital sentences , it is to Capital sen- be noted that the sentence of death though often recorded , is in innumerable cases commuted as of course to terms of penal servitude , transportation to lesser or greater distances from the ...
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... Capital punish § 28. And the manner of death varies . So in treason , the parricide , or murdering a husband , the prisoner is sentenced to what is called the ' lingering ' death ' of being cut to pieces : in grave cases of treason the ...
... Capital punish § 28. And the manner of death varies . So in treason , the parricide , or murdering a husband , the prisoner is sentenced to what is called the ' lingering ' death ' of being cut to pieces : in grave cases of treason the ...
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... law on the point was practically a dead letter ) Christians who after having recanted Capital penalty not confined to treason or murder ; ex- amples . and been pardoned relapsed , and members of certain secret INTRODUCTION LXVII.
... law on the point was practically a dead letter ) Christians who after having recanted Capital penalty not confined to treason or murder ; ex- amples . and been pardoned relapsed , and members of certain secret INTRODUCTION LXVII.
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... capital cases . are not visited with the death penalty unless , indeed , they be pirates or brigands , or where the crime is , in Chinese Law , particularly atrocious . Thus , if half - a - dozen persons be engaged in the killing , and ...
... capital cases . are not visited with the death penalty unless , indeed , they be pirates or brigands , or where the crime is , in Chinese Law , particularly atrocious . Thus , if half - a - dozen persons be engaged in the killing , and ...
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