Jacobs and the subsequent practice of the Court based on this precedent, effectively solved the complicated problem of recovering debts from Chinese firms, whose members could easily get out of reach of their foreign creditors owing to the limitation of the territorial jurisdiction of the Mixed Cot But based only on Supreme Court decisions, it may be, and is now disputed from a legal point of view owing to the contradiction of the latter with the local custom, The Court has not yet expressed its final opinion on the issue, but the apps in the case of such talented counsels a3 Mr. A. M, Preston, of Ellis and Hays, and Mr. K. E, Newman, of Tosdais, and McDonald, assures he qu will be fully set out before the The Court's Tale of Work As far aa foreign interest in lawsuits before the Mixed Court in 1925 is con cerned the following figures show the num-bet of foreign civil cases filed during the year:
American 123 Belgian 2 Brazilian British Danish. Rae:
Indian (British) "363 Italian Japanese wen 48 Netherlands as ap 2 96
Portuguese fame Spanish oe 98 Swedish 4 Swiss ' Ras Making a total of cases, it which the amount dispute exceeded Tis, 2,600,000. Tls. 825,760 was involved in American cai Tls. 675,000 in British, and the of the twelve remaining nationalities.
The direct and indirect foreign interest in Chinoce civil actions and bank-enses (47) has not been taken into ideretion, but is i less than kha annually.
The activi Court with 5 cad in compari th the activity of the Criminal Division appears to be insignificant. The total number of criminal Supreme Court Decivion, Claus 2, 1923.
ard year A.C, 292 and 650; 4th year A.C. 1543 and 445,
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