"The Law Courts of Chit the subject of a lecture which was largely attended on Wednesday evening at the Chinese Y. M. C. A. the speaker being Mr. Liu "Yuen-hsin, now a practising lawyer Shanghai but formerly a judge of the Procurators' court of Peking.
Mr. Liu said that, under the Manchus the judicial and executive powers of the government were con.. currently exercised by the officials, Justice being administrated by the yamens from the hsien magistrate and above. -As - the courts were not administered on a systematic and the magistrates did not have a thorough training in the Law great difficulty in pur-on anything dike the of justice,
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