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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... Escape . Rescue . Resisting arrest . Page 502 · 512 513 514 · 516 AGAINST RELIGION CHAPTER XVI - RELIGION AND OFFENCES Section I do . II • General consideration . Heresy . ― Christianity Irregular procedure etc. Sacrilege · Section III ...
... Escape . Rescue . Resisting arrest . Page 502 · 512 513 514 · 516 AGAINST RELIGION CHAPTER XVI - RELIGION AND OFFENCES Section I do . II • General consideration . Heresy . ― Christianity Irregular procedure etc. Sacrilege · Section III ...
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... escape the vermilion pencil for three years , their sentences are then commuted . This revision takes place annually in the autumn , and is often called and translated ' Revision at the Autumn ' Assize . ' There are some cases where the ...
... escape the vermilion pencil for three years , their sentences are then commuted . This revision takes place annually in the autumn , and is often called and translated ' Revision at the Autumn ' Assize . ' There are some cases where the ...
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... escaped with 70 blows and one year's transportation : the accomplices , though relatives , were sentenced to 100 blows and transportation for life . for life , Ordinarily an accessory , in the case of premeditated murder , is sentenced ...
... escaped with 70 blows and one year's transportation : the accomplices , though relatives , were sentenced to 100 blows and transportation for life . for life , Ordinarily an accessory , in the case of premeditated murder , is sentenced ...
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... escape decapitation and mutilation , but a capital sentence for joint larceny ( supra ) will be postponed twenty ... escaped their full term of punishment for these , and were sentenced on another and graver charge of misappropriating ...
... escape decapitation and mutilation , but a capital sentence for joint larceny ( supra ) will be postponed twenty ... escaped their full term of punishment for these , and were sentenced on another and graver charge of misappropriating ...
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... Escaping the former punishment , according to the rule , the offender also escaped the latter , because he was the only son and sole support of a man over seventy years of age ( as to which see later ) , and was in the end sentenced to ...
... Escaping the former punishment , according to the rule , the offender also escaped the latter , because he was the only son and sole support of a man over seventy years of age ( as to which see later ) , and was in the end sentenced to ...
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