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Law relating, to Registration of Copyrights. Promulgated on February J, 1916.
Law refiting to Trade Marks. Promulgated May 3, 1923. Detailed Regulations for the execution of the Trade Marks Law. Promulgated May 8, 1923.
With the growing consciousness of the division between civil and [criminal matters there has naturally arisen the search for civil law and Precedent, There has perhaps also arisen dissatisfaction with the compromise system enforced by the guilds. The new courts were immediately faced with the task of finding civil law. The Chinese Supreme C: i organization of the Sndiciary to unify the interpretation of the law as follows:
"Article 35. The President of the Court of Cassation has anthority to unity the interpretation of the law. 2 and directs that these laws are to be enacted by both houses (Articles
tion, however, there has been the afore-mentioned judicial legislation and considerable executive legislation, as some of the presidents ihave promulgated laws without reference to parliament.
Under the old regime judicial matters were handled by the administrative offic treated as a minor duties. No special training was ever considered necessary to qualify an officer to hear a case, The serious cases however were reviewed by the Board of Punishments in Peking at the "Autumn Trials." In 1906 the Board of Punishments was changed into the Board of Justice and was authorized to deal exclusively with judicial matters, In 1908 the provisional Regulations Governing the Organization of the courts were promulgated and this was the first time that any division had ever been made between the Judicial and executive powers and duties. These experiments however Ma. N.
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