ko Father Francois Théry, the indefatigable translator who hi worked so successfully to make Chinese Legislation known to, forelsn~ rs, offers us now in the "Chinese Modern Law" Collection (seventh year of the series) the "Chinese Sudiclary Year modern China are already well trans The principal Togislative texts of
inf ifo"Enlish and French out for the non-Chinese lawyer a forbid-Tong as the Jurisprudence rema
en eld, he can not dream of wc-Guiting. more than avery superficial Rnovledge of the actual law,. The Chinese Civil Code, in fact like the Swiss code which inspired it, is one the most restricted In existence. Numerous precisions which the legis-Mor has preferred, to leave t0. the fee investigation of the Judge have been deliberately excluded from It. Thus arises. an even more urgent necessity of paying particular atten tion to the jurisprudence. Moreove only study of these judgments can Show. what. parts of this. legislation fre truly living and effective, and hat parts areernpty promises, Here Is'a study attractive for the enquirer, and usef or even necessary for the Practising attorney and. business Me, Bxearra, published some time ago' in Shanghat the summaries of ihe jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of Pekin (Ta Li Yuan), Pather Thery began in 1982 the publication Of the Jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of Nanking (1028... "To-day he Siters ts inva large volume of 360 pages the decisions "of 1994. R''ghort time, the retardation. once ought up, we shall have each year a collection' of the. principal-deeistons of the preceding year The. Translator "does not content himself with a summary of the decl-Son, but adds the exposition of the Foacns for the decision, We has fiven ts, therefore, the very thought St the Judge in its development, times rather sinuous, and always" Sructive. "The decisions are given in ihe order of their appearance In the Journal of the Judtelary Connell (Sea Yuen Kung Pao). Two indices, one systematic, the other alphabetic, make' the consultation of the. Book extremely easy, Ax in the preceding Volumes," Father Théry has taken Dalns to follow the Chinese text very Closely, and while not. sacrideing clearness, has almed above all "Among the more interesting dectslons of the present volume may Indicated. those. which touch come mercial socleltes, the: proof of mar Vinge, divorce cases, the Tigh of succession of the sons of he con
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