The Archive · 1928

China's Municipal Law

The next question to be decided by the Court is whether, in the absence of "treaty provisions, China obliged or allowed, by her Municipal Lam,, to extradite a person In China, owing to the existence of extraterritoriality, no question of extradition has vison until recently, when several natio Hinguished their extraterr rights. Some Chinese Surists main-{ain that, as the Constitutional Law of Chinn provides. that it is', the ight of a Chinese citizen to complain and to be tried before a court of law, the Chinese Govern-cannot" extradite a Chinese itzen without an international, convention or a statutory sanction,, On the other hand, the judicial decision point to the tendency of, giving up fugitive criminals without treaty. In Febroary 24, 1922, two.) Russian criminals taking refuge in'

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