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•HESE DOOKS are conveniently situated in Yokohama, harbour and the attention of Captaios kad Kogiñours is respectially called to the advantages offered for Docking and repairing Vessots and Machinery of story dnscription.
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FUCH & CAMCAnesprings only, from Wastan Ignorance, since the whipping post aus punish ment tends to gain in favour and has been r introduced into some of the meal civilized o modern logislative commenities:
The one barbarous accompaniment ese criminal procedure
with which the greatest difficulty will be experienced is the torture chamber. During the Janı {Iwo“ decades more than one Imperial Edict bas 'been issued reciting the disfavour with which this administrative expedient is viewed and bidding officials throughout the Empira to discontinue its use in court proceedings. From
ZAW REFORM IN CHINA,
The incentive which powerfully attracts Chian towards a sweeping reforms of her system of laws, extending sven to a discamion of con- stitutional amendment, is the hope, that such raform may have the effect of hastening the surrender of extra-territorial rights in China, Hence the problem of law reform will be ap proached with this and in view; and no scheme of reform will be acceptable which does not place this consideration above all others. Con sequently it will be necessary, like Japan, to clear at a single bound the chasm which reparatos juric semi-barbarism; with its patar. most of the Provinces the rescript has beņu ikai pal-patriarchal rules and procedure, from the it was as yet impossible to preserve order and ad- modera ruler of Western monicipal law, minister justice without the use of torture. 2 kii making it the more difficult to utilize any is but another manifestation of the same pracil, existent methods, however serviceable their cal fact which call for the retention of corporal retention might be, which in Western ayes punishment. The fear which the infliction of might bear the lalot of absurdity. It will thus | physical pain is able to instill as a preventive "be readily seen" that China will feel herself to crime has not as yet been subitituted in unable to accept the counsel of the timid to Chion by the sauer terror which only an alert, make haste slowly in the matter of law reform, vigorous and stern administration of law w for it is felt that unless enform is thorough-go- be able to inspire. Here we get a glimpse of ing, its main object might for this reason be the rooted fear of the yameo based on terrorisk. defeated.
tlow, which it will be a very dificult problem, without the sacrifice of orderly administration, to dissolve into a wholesome dread, not super
Outside of the wish to shake off the alien chains of extra-territoriality, there is probably little spontaneous internal demand for the restitious or too overwhelming. PODA form of China's system of lawn. Whilst in } form archaic nod of little juridical culture, still it by no means follows as of course that its actual administration results lo a proportional
The cast of Docking, and repair work, will be found to compare favourably with that Chind, and the hemane. Anglo-Saxon rule in of any port in the world,
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In the draft of a civil code for China, the gravest difficulty which will present item]£\"will": probably be the question of the family law. Shuli China retain those, zacient
Steam Launches of Real or Wood, Lighters, Steel Buildings and Roofs, Bridge multiplication of concrete injustice. The pantarchal, customs, which, on the one band, Work, and all kinda of Machinary are made on the premises.
quality of justice which is the ftult of a legal | aro' absolutely fundamental in her "wonderful system does pot depend upon the law's sub- | unified social scheme and which havo made: Tenders will be made up when required and the workmanship and material will bostantive rules, but depends almost entirely upon her the greatest breeding nation on earth, but ga'aranted.
its administration. "Human life is cheap in which nevertheless stifle individualistic expan- sion, the watchword of progress, and withal criminal cases requiring proof beyond a reason- totally segregate Chios from the universal life able doubt would be looked upon as itself un- of the modern world. ↑ It must be well consis just in China. The administration of criminal dered-whether any serious "deleterious effect law is extremely sévere, but this is believed to might follow any arbitrary alteration in the be a decenity, Nevertheless,`it is at least | ruler which sauction the dearest and most MO", doubtful whether, more actual injustice is ac- cient customs of the Chineze people, and hence complished in the administration of Chinese go socialistic meddling, but only the extremest law than in the administration of the laws of and wisest care should be employed in so bite many highly civilized States. Technicality of a problem. For instance, tremendous reva- procedure and the academic spirit of technique, | lution could be worked in Chinese socisty by which alterly blights the administration of a very simple provision, namely, by fixing an American criminal law, and exercises a nge for the legal majority and emancipation of perversiva" influence upon the administra. children, at the attainment of which the parla lion of law in all civilized countries," lo | potent en should cease. By means of a few add- China has no existence. Funbermore, weed similar provisions, it would be easily · possív of the West write off to the "account, of ble to rob the whole patriarchal system of its humanity a word of veritable injustice (sons present.vital power, leaving.ji a mere skeleton the less injustice because cuing qo the side of leniency) which to Chipa is, unknown, ou"ace, count of the implacable characteristic of legal administration.
Liebers, Scotts, Yokohama, May 23rd, 1905.
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frame, such as the family law of Japan. Ger tainly the wishes of the people, and the de- mands of modernity call for some reform, for.. example, such as the elevation and strengthen-. The draking of a set of rules of the substante | ing of the wila's status within the family. The ive law for China should not be a difficult task. authority of the mother-in-law in China is a Japanese professors in the Tokio University veritable universal curse, just as the mere performed the task in the case of, the present Presence of that pancage is an occasiopal.
nuisance amongst Western peoples. Japanese Code by simply keeping before them. The enactment of an age of legal majority the new German Code as a model, While of and cinadcipation from the paternal-authority- coursd the work may be performed well or ill would greatly, help towards clipping the of consanguinity according to the character of the supervision extensive civil obligations of
from residence under one roof. of springing. employed, will there is little scope to go far various family lines. Thus the craving for wrong provided adherence is bad to modern greater individual, freedom, the beginnings of legislative standards. Under the fluence of whi 'cas be plainly discerned amongst the the consentas of civilization, the rates of munt, Chinese, rebels against the rule
a cipat law approach now very near to a common brother's debts or delicts. The abrogation of humane standard of equity, and justice. 20
the most oppressive of these rules. would As is to be expected from the inherent simpaterally follow the emancipation of adult plicity of the subject the criminal law of China children and their habitual departure at major- differs not very greatly in essence from the ity, hs in Western countries, from the paternal
dwellings
On the character of the procedural law criminal law of modern countries. In fact, the shrewd and capable manner in which the adepted, and the actual administration nader Chinese law defines and penalizes those fan- that procedure, hlupes pre-emlcantly China's damental crimes against the commission of hope and opportunity of taking and bolding s which all the world has ever legislated, for high place as a furic nation. The task of drafting a code · of substantive municipal nishes a fair augury of Chinese' potential juric law which shall embody the basic prin ability. Hero ́ls a subject on which the'uative | ciptes of modern legal nations of equity sagacity of the Chinese and of the foreigner and justice is easy, compared to the day of meet on common and level ground, seither nations have laws of approximately equal good- actual administration. Practically all cvilsted being handicapped by lack of knowledge or
ness, but asly one ortwo countries of the world backwardness in civilized advance, and it is administer those laws with such success as to fair to say that the Chinese legislator folly wis the trust and confidence of the body of their justifies the friendliest hopes of his intelligence own people. Hence the problem of procedure
becomes of the atmost importance. Hera China' and capacity. As an illustration of this point has one great advantage-there are no lawyork: the Chinese rule for the punishment for ac in Chins, and this fact gives her a free hand, cidental bomicide is worth noting. Though unfettered by the claims of vasted interests and": the killing be purely accidenta) and the accus- unhampered by the selfish or jaundiced vientol ed be free of colpable negligence or blame advocate in China, so far as there is any de ab interested class. The work of the court whilst not otherwise 'pucishable, he is cover-mand for it and to the extent permitted by the "theless mulcted of a fine which goes to the discretion, of Judges, is performed by the low- family of the deceased. Bentham long ago secretary, who prepares the case of his client, pointed out that the balance in such cases standing in the hearing of the case, and is lo
.but farther than this has only a quasi-official ought to inclion in favour of him who suffers lerated or not as the judge feelt dipad. the injury rather than in favour of him who The court work which the law commits it, and the adoption of satisfactory forms, however, or compensatory remedies such as the penal remedy afforded by the Chinese rale referred 10. marks's distinct feature of modern law re- form, as it is recognized that laws are very, imperfect upon this point
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sure to increased Por this anomalous functionary might easily ba substituted by a small number of Government Advocates, Bay
two for each court of importe auce, for whose services litigants should pay the court a very small foo, which could te made much smaller than that exacted awed by There are o considerations which indicate the law-secretary. The object aimed at would. professicaal class, for which there has never be to avoid the factitious creation of a large : criminal law should take in the process of arisen an economic need in China. This piso, reformation. Fini, only the simplest and most | It is believed, would be peculiarly suitable to rudimentary crimes are as yet carefully, and the needs of China, because it is an “apptoti accurately.defined. There will need to be a mate approach to the old law-secretary sysłem
now in vogue considerable addition to the body of existing -Should Chios succeed in the establishment aw in this respect. Second, the purely civil of the system of Government/Advocates ing• rights and duties at present enforced by a panal gested, the Utopian, dovelty, of it would for stuction should be more plainly differentiated once win for a Chinese institution the interest from the 'criminal law, and in most instances ed respect of the advanced civilized world, and such penalties should be substituted by a right actually place, Chips, to thir extent, in the unprecedented position of blizing way in to seek redreas by civil action merely. It is re-t
path of universal" progresu, instead of markable how many writers and publicists who assume-to speak with authority concerning
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following as she does in so many ways, thousand years or more in the rear,
China's deed of a new Códa, of: Lunws l
presuming that China's penal codes synony- especially noticeable at the tresty ports, such | as Shangbal. In these cities, on account of mous with Western penal codes and embraces the greater severity of the present Chinese merely the criminal law ! Tas patent fact is law and the extensive ramifications of its Hiring 1140 civil offences are penalized in identically the ass are abjected to triciar and more
by side in the imma settlemani same fashion as criminal acts and bence are wide spreading set of obligations, For example lecluded within the so-called Penal Code. | according to Western law, criminal care cauf.
With the qualification that cruel and unusual mess can in no event be predicated, except up- panishment like the ling che, should be done on an injury to the person of another, carriers away, with, the forms of punishment now in use involving damage to property: being the basis only bf x civil vult. Yet Chluase coollen In China should be retained, except that possibly in the Shanghai Settlements are often com the substitution of banging for strangulation and sentenced to imprisonment by might be useful concession to Western Court for carelessness, the resul humanitarism. Corporal 2, pur ment (the merely damage to the propert
other being usually u. formiga! bamboo), should emphatical
red to and oppressiva (bat Chinese khal
| that in the patriarchal legal system of China patriarchal mandates Chipper with foreigo--
publihment for which the
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