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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... punishment , he ordered his captive to be flogged on the spot - and the latter , being in a poor state of health , died in not ference tolerated , for example . consequence . For this , the sergeant was sentenced to INTRODUCTION LIII.
... punishment , he ordered his captive to be flogged on the spot - and the latter , being in a poor state of health , died in not ference tolerated , for example . consequence . For this , the sergeant was sentenced to INTRODUCTION LIII.
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... consequence . For this , the sergeant was sentenced to one hundred blows and three years ' transportation ; and which seems harder the soldiers by whom the flogging was administered were sentenced to ninety blows and two years ...
... consequence . For this , the sergeant was sentenced to one hundred blows and three years ' transportation ; and which seems harder the soldiers by whom the flogging was administered were sentenced to ninety blows and two years ...
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... consequences , the person who strikes the last fatal blow is ordinarily held responsible ; but if the originator of the disturbance has inflicted a fatal wound , he is held responsible , though the death result from another wound ...
... consequences , the person who strikes the last fatal blow is ordinarily held responsible ; but if the originator of the disturbance has inflicted a fatal wound , he is held responsible , though the death result from another wound ...
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... consequences of his offence usually in the end by commuting the penalty to a fine if he is the sole dependence of his family 親老留養 Not seldom no fine even is imposed , the offender escaping scatheless . The leniency extends to most ...
... consequences of his offence usually in the end by commuting the penalty to a fine if he is the sole dependence of his family 親老留養 Not seldom no fine even is imposed , the offender escaping scatheless . The leniency extends to most ...
Page 189
... consequence , the practice becomes comparatively serious - the old husband receiving three years transportation , and the new one and the matchmaker two years each ( H. A. H. L. Supp . vol . III . p . 56 ) . So in the case of Huang Tê ...
... consequence , the practice becomes comparatively serious - the old husband receiving three years transportation , and the new one and the matchmaker two years each ( H. A. H. L. Supp . vol . III . p . 56 ) . So in the case of Huang Tê ...
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