Cone or Maxiniye _Law."—Chinese "Text with English Translation. "By John "McNeill and. Wel Wen-har.
The China Law Journal, Shanghai:
This is a valuable little legal handbook which obviously [special interest to lawyers and shippers in Shanghai. The translators fin their preface point out that the difficulty of extracting from the Chinese, text the exact meaning and intention and in using the right English legal words in so doing without failing to reproduce the principles of maritime law which the drafters of the code intended to insert has necessarily involved much elasticity in translation. Therefore Jon some occasions the translation is Mteral and on others it is free. The work has been carefully dono and the book should have a ready sale.
JCuixese Taape-Mamx Law."—Rogulations, and, Classiteation of Mer-Norwood China: Taw Sournal, Shangha Another handbook wi special interest to lawyers and the mercan munity generally is the translation fof the trade-mark law and the regulations and classifications of merchandise recently promulgated bs. the Chinese Government. The revised law differs considerably from the old Inw in that the revised law. Jomits the penal features that ap-Peared in the original law and feriminal actions concerning trademarks must now be brought under Articles 268° and 209" of the [Criminal Code. The revised law further requires that separate applications must be filed in each group in each class. This will make ie somewhat more expensive for a trademark owner to obtain register: tion and protection as it requires additional applications to protect merchandise, that would ordinarily be registered in one class instead of
jelass. The revised Trademark law the separate groups of the same Went into effect as of January 1, 1981,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.