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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... killing , there are : deliberately planned killing mou sha , killing with intent to kill ku sha , killing without intending to kill the person killed wu sha killing in course of an affray tousha , killing by utter chance shih shou sha ...
... killing , there are : deliberately planned killing mou sha , killing with intent to kill ku sha , killing without intending to kill the person killed wu sha killing in course of an affray tousha , killing by utter chance shih shou sha ...
Page lxv
... killing deliberately , killing intentionally , and killing casually ; and the proper denominator having been obtained , the case is made somewhat better , or somewhat worse , in accordance therewith . And so of other offences ; as for ...
... killing deliberately , killing intentionally , and killing casually ; and the proper denominator having been obtained , the case is made somewhat better , or somewhat worse , in accordance therewith . And so of other offences ; as for ...
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... kill a thief , therefore , is merely considered as killing without warrant of the law , and although the penalty incurred is capital punishment , unless the circumstances are very aggravated , the sentence will not be carried out ...
... kill a thief , therefore , is merely considered as killing without warrant of the law , and although the penalty incurred is capital punishment , unless the circumstances are very aggravated , the sentence will not be carried out ...
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... kill the slayer ten years afterwards if he do so , the plea for commutation will not be admitted . — As the Emperor ... killed while in the act of thieving , and the prisoner on reaching man's estate killed the slayer , although the ...
... kill the slayer ten years afterwards if he do so , the plea for commutation will not be admitted . — As the Emperor ... killed while in the act of thieving , and the prisoner on reaching man's estate killed the slayer , although the ...
Page 88
... kill a man he catches with his brother's wife ( v . case of Lo Chin - ling , H. A. H. L. vol . II . p . 30 ) . Again justificatory circumstances will be allowed as a matter of course when a man kills his wife intentionally or ...
... kill a man he catches with his brother's wife ( v . case of Lo Chin - ling , H. A. H. L. vol . II . p . 30 ) . Again justificatory circumstances will be allowed as a matter of course when a man kills his wife intentionally or ...
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