Shanghai knows pretty well the nature of cases brought before the Supreme Court, so it is needless to say more about them than that the above is typical of most. During the war, however, the Court had cast on it, which, owing to of English law, our Courts can undertake, and the law dealing with enemy property in China, was essentially judge-made, the difficulty as to jurisdiction being such as to make it very hard to legislate comprehensively on the subject, and the application of the Imperial Statutes being a matter of unusual nicety. By going step by step a system was developed which from time to time was embodied in King's Regulations.
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