10 Yeare of the U.S. Court for China: First Judge to Complete Full Term The approaching departure of his Honour Judge. Lobingier is gin event which ithe American community in Shanghai will in building up the Court library. Uponhis arrival it consisted of few' text books, the Federal Decisions (in part) and reports of a very few cases. By careful use of a limited appro priation, Judge Lobingier secured the full' reports of each of the 30 courts of last resort in the United States and of some of the lower courts, so that it is now possible for members of the Bar using the library to prepare briefs on' almost any subject in important, in view of the a wall og monk a being American mirable service ho has, vende fu the U-8, Court for Chine, For gd during his 10 years' service
the time being, the business of the court practically. remains abeyance, hie Honour's judi period expiring strictly according fo the date of the Presidential 'Commission—a position which most observers may describe as unsatisfactory, in View of the possibility of' cases piling up until the arrival of the new Judge, In point of fact, Judge Lobingier's work is all "up-to-date," and there rare few outstanding eases of any importance waiting to be dealt, with, understand Judge Lobinier, upon handing over office to his, success yor, proposes first to visit -the nited Btates and give some attention to' his estate in Mass oun, and when these and various othe! private matters have been return to. Bhanghai." For the dealt. with, possibly he, may
moment, however, his plans in this respect. ave indefinite, mana "man An interesting point about his Honour's work in China is that is the first judge of the to complete the appointed term of 10 years, the first two Judges here resigning before their! terms wore half over, From the first, he recognized the difficulty of the task before him, and this perhaps more than anything else determined him upon setting a useful precedent, He thas suc ecaded, but this' we may look upon as the least of his successes, his. Honour having accomplished much.extremely valuable work ug up the court.
resting account of Judge ngier's work here, Mr. W.W, Blume, Dean of the Comparative Law School, pays tribute to his Honour for having blazed a trail through the entanglement of cases and statutes which make up the Inve of the United States, making pathway to. be followed by Americans in China. and sitting wp sign posts which all hin successors must, follow.
All this has been accomplished in the small leisure available from the increasingly arduous demands of the court. - Té- was a small institution when the Judge assumed his- post, only 878 cases, most. of them of minor chamcter, having been filed la existence. The number has been the preceding eight years of its increased by more than 9,000 during the past 10 years, and many have involved "enormous sums of money and Jegal questions of far reaching importance. over 100 Law TREATIES.
How completely Judge Lobingier has applied himself to judicial work may. be gathered from the fact that a bibliography of his legal literature would include over one—hundred treatises on a wide range of legal subjects, Of the longer works, pothape the best) known are "The 'People's Law, "The Byolntion of (new edition of whic recently publi "Philippine Practice," and. "jiicteaterritorial Cases," while all' of the shorter treatises have appeared in the leading Jaw magazines and encyclopedias. This is a record of achievement and service of which his Honour's fellow-countrymen no less than himself. may well be proud, It is quite certain that his naiié niust over hold 2 prominent plac annals of the U.S, China,
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