Bruggen hopes to fly towards the coast and spend some time in Japan. He Is on his way to spend one year in Harvard and in' passing through Los. Angeles he hopes 19 meet Judge Lindsay, the authority on juvenile Crime. He is Interested in. juvenile rime and hopes to make this a life study on his return to Belgium. While here he tried to discover all that was possible about crime, punish ment and law In the land of the Tamas, Mr, Paul Sherap assisted tim his investigations and was able to answer many of his questions. Tibet, in its attitude to rime, punish~ ment and law, is stilt medieval in many ways and the laws are largely tke hands of the lamas, Alama Ureaks the Jaw and is tried and punished by Ue lama court; a eivilisn breaks the law and he Is tried by the evil court.
Evidently a toma cannot be tried in a civil court, nor civilian ina Tnma court; but In a ease where 2 Jama commits murder he is tried before a special court in Lhasa. Mr. Sherap was asked by the baron all kinds of questions as to the Jaws governing lamaseries, law courts, Ownership of land and disputes there of; divorce, bigamy, polyandry and Tawws governing birth and death—could civil court decide a lama's Property and could a lama court lay a relative's belongings.
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