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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... offences as homicide , larceny , etc. This division is of itself sufficiently comprehensive and bulky : but the Criminal Law is not only to be found herein , but ... offence , do not appear under that offence the whole subject is PREFACE IX.
... offences as homicide , larceny , etc. This division is of itself sufficiently comprehensive and bulky : but the Criminal Law is not only to be found herein , but ... offence , do not appear under that offence the whole subject is PREFACE IX.
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... OFFENCES Where an offender is convicted of two ( or more ) offences at the same time , he is sentenced on the graver charge , not on both E – F F So , two officials , who had committed the offences of bringing in an offence as lighter ...
... OFFENCES Where an offender is convicted of two ( or more ) offences at the same time , he is sentenced on the graver charge , not on both E – F F So , two officials , who had committed the offences of bringing in an offence as lighter ...
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... offence . It should be noted that , in determining which of several offences is the most serious , the penalty is the test , and although decapitation is a heavier punishment than strangulation , strangulation without appeal is ...
... offence . It should be noted that , in determining which of several offences is the most serious , the penalty is the test , and although decapitation is a heavier punishment than strangulation , strangulation without appeal is ...
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... offences of equal gravity , an offender can , as a rule , only be sentenced upon one : but , in the case of two capital offences of equal gravity , the penalty may be increased . Thus , if the penalty for either offence be summary ...
... offences of equal gravity , an offender can , as a rule , only be sentenced upon one : but , in the case of two capital offences of equal gravity , the penalty may be increased . Thus , if the penalty for either offence be summary ...
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... offence after sentence pronounced . The general rule as to the commission of several offences seems , also , to apply where an offender commits a further offence after sentence has been pronounced the punishment due the greater offence ...
... offence after sentence pronounced . The general rule as to the commission of several offences seems , also , to apply where an offender commits a further offence after sentence has been pronounced the punishment due the greater offence ...
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