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foreign courts on the other. as regards the working of foreign courts, the investigations of the Commission wi 11, for obvious reasons, be subject to a cerain limitacion; their object will be to suggest remedies for defecte, if any, inherent in the working of all foreign courts alike, whatever their nationality; it will hardly be possible for them to fix their attention exclusively upon, much less to recommead remedies for, any abuses that may be presented by the courts of particuler nationalities. But as regards Chinese Courts, there is no analogous limitation that need confine either the attention or the recommendations of the Commission to the working of any particular court or set of courts.
4. This observation suggests that as regards foreign courts, there is one general feature of the present system to which the Commission will give their serious, if not their exclusive, attention. This is the inconveniences arising
from the diversity of laws administered by courts of different nationalities in China. In principle it would seem that the remedy for these inconveniences lies in the progressive whittling away of the field of law so administered, by gradually substituting, as regards particular subjects, Chinese law for foreign laws. But in considering the practicability or any such substitution at any siage, the Commission will be ccnfrented with a practical difficulty that will no doubt seem especially acute to its British and American members, namely the difficulty which British and American ecurts will find in applying, in any department,
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especially in the domain of criminal law, a system which is unders ord to be mainly based upon contimental models of
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