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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... effect of the relationship of husband and wife do . IV - Other natural relationships fathers and mothers - in - law ; sons and daughters - in - law . 196 - uncles and aunts ; nephews and nieces - brothers · 198 200 Page CHAPTER V ...
... effect of the relationship of husband and wife do . IV - Other natural relationships fathers and mothers - in - law ; sons and daughters - in - law . 196 - uncles and aunts ; nephews and nieces - brothers · 198 200 Page CHAPTER V ...
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... effect of the paternal despotism which has throughout all ages been the prevailing form of constitution . As early as Shun ( circa B. C. 2317 ) attempts were made in the direction of the formation of some constant system , but the ...
... effect of the paternal despotism which has throughout all ages been the prevailing form of constitution . As early as Shun ( circa B. C. 2317 ) attempts were made in the direction of the formation of some constant system , but the ...
Page xliii
... effect to before being 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 ...
... effect to before being 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 ...
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... effect to combination the combination of law and justice , the practical result of this desire has been fatal thereto . Murder to an Englishman is murder whoever the victim may be ; but Chinese jurists say it is not right that the ...
... effect to combination the combination of law and justice , the practical result of this desire has been fatal thereto . Murder to an Englishman is murder whoever the victim may be ; but Chinese jurists say it is not right that the ...
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... effect of this liberal admixture of local government upon the general system has been misconceived : it is commonly supposed to have all the force of an imperium in imperio . The family or clan is , however , much in the position of an ...
... effect of this liberal admixture of local government upon the general system has been misconceived : it is commonly supposed to have all the force of an imperium in imperio . The family or clan is , however , much in the position of an ...
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