Mr. Jenkin continued that this the local hospital. At a village some 20 miles southeast of the witness would give evidence of Chinese Inw as decided in the city, a party of robbers forced their way into the residence of the leading citizen about six o'clock Chrietmas Eve. Finding-the head of the household absent they became enraged and vented their spleen by firing on the servants, killing one, mortally wounding a son of the old man, and hitting two others. The wounded were brought into the Huchow Union Hospital after the robbers had made good their escape. While not of very great frequency these incidents are numerous enough to excite no great comment when they do occur. The poor country people look upon them as an unpleasant matter-of-course, deplorable but unpreventable.
'The peaceful condition of the city' here keeps us out of the limelight} of general interest, but we are satisfied to remain unnoticed and unsung.
Supreme Court of Peking. Other witnesses would be Chinese residents Hongkong who were acknowledged experts of Chinese Law. They would all say that the law was uniform and applied throughout the whole of China although in some isolated hamlets the law of the strong and menied parties might be taken as the local law. It was, however, only a matter of carrying the a bit further to] the head villages of the district for the thing to be put right, said counsel.
In the case of a man with property, ancestral or otherwise, when ther on his death there was a son' or not the management of that property went to the widow. When the son attained his majority the wife handed over the son or retained her rights acto her will. Her only obligation under the law. was to
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