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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... excused 120 . do . after 122 • CHAPTER IV do . do . bambooing list of offences excepted . • THE POSITION AND LIABILITIES OF SUNDRY OFFICIALS , ETC. Magistrates ' duties carelessness 124 -- official 132 CHAPTER IV ( contd . ) definition ...
... excused 120 . do . after 122 • CHAPTER IV do . do . bambooing list of offences excepted . • THE POSITION AND LIABILITIES OF SUNDRY OFFICIALS , ETC. Magistrates ' duties carelessness 124 -- official 132 CHAPTER IV ( contd . ) definition ...
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... excused , and will certainly be treated leniently ; and an offender actually undergoing punishment , such as a convict serving his sentence of penal servitude or of banishment to a penal settlement , may live in hope that his punishment ...
... excused , and will certainly be treated leniently ; and an offender actually undergoing punishment , such as a convict serving his sentence of penal servitude or of banishment to a penal settlement , may live in hope that his punishment ...
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... excused the branding because the person robbed was a relation ( H. A. H. L. vol . III . p . 53 ) . The conviction also holds where the offender had been sentenced upon another and more serious count in the same indictment ...
... excused the branding because the person robbed was a relation ( H. A. H. L. vol . III . p . 53 ) . The conviction also holds where the offender had been sentenced upon another and more serious count in the same indictment ...
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... excused , while the son on the other hand was sentenced to one hundred blows and three years transportation for denouncing his brother's murder , because in doing so he had brought his father into danger of the law . ( H. A. H. L. vol ...
... excused , while the son on the other hand was sentenced to one hundred blows and three years transportation for denouncing his brother's murder , because in doing so he had brought his father into danger of the law . ( H. A. H. L. vol ...
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... excused on payment of a fine . It is laid down that though a man whose right wrist is broken may be allowed the benefit of the act , the fact that he is deaf or dumb will not excuse him . The totally blind come within the act , but not ...
... excused on payment of a fine . It is laid down that though a man whose right wrist is broken may be allowed the benefit of the act , the fact that he is deaf or dumb will not excuse him . The totally blind come within the act , but not ...
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