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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Page lvii
... wherein two ruffians attempted to ravish a certain man's wife during his absence from home . A neighbour and some friends , attracted by her cries , went to her assistance , and one of them stabbed a ruffian who turned quickly upon his ...
... wherein two ruffians attempted to ravish a certain man's wife during his absence from home . A neighbour and some friends , attracted by her cries , went to her assistance , and one of them stabbed a ruffian who turned quickly upon his ...
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... wherein the respective parties concerned are , on the one side , members of the military class , and , on the other , ordinary individuals , or wherein , though the parties on both sides are military individuals , one or more of the ...
... wherein the respective parties concerned are , on the one side , members of the military class , and , on the other , ordinary individuals , or wherein , though the parties on both sides are military individuals , one or more of the ...
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... wherein the evidence was simply set aside , P. A. S. P. vol . XIV . p . 53 ) . ' A ' plausible defence ' little chance , and the ' made ' accused ' has comparatively up stories of the are valued accordingly . - In serious cases as e . g ...
... wherein the evidence was simply set aside , P. A. S. P. vol . XIV . p . 53 ) . ' A ' plausible defence ' little chance , and the ' made ' accused ' has comparatively up stories of the are valued accordingly . - In serious cases as e . g ...
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... wherein an offender had been sentenced to death for reducing his uncle to the condition of a helpless cripple . The said offender's name had already been submitted to H. I. M. two years successively , but passed over , when a petition ...
... wherein an offender had been sentenced to death for reducing his uncle to the condition of a helpless cripple . The said offender's name had already been submitted to H. I. M. two years successively , but passed over , when a petition ...
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... wherein a wizard employed to bewitch a child knocked it on the head instead ( H. A. H. L. vol . XXII . p . 41 ) . An eye - witness to a murder and highway robbery was , in a well known case on the point , sentenced to mitigated ...
... wherein a wizard employed to bewitch a child knocked it on the head instead ( H. A. H. L. vol . XXII . p . 41 ) . An eye - witness to a murder and highway robbery was , in a well known case on the point , sentenced to mitigated ...
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