Prof, Jean Escarra is not only professor of law at the University of Paris, but he is and has been for many years one of the legal advisors of the Government at Nanking.
for this reason that, however interesting are the numerous works of Prof. Escarra, many of his contentions have tobe taken with a grain salt, 'No one can really be objective and, impartial, whether he be a person the highest standard and of the very best faith, it he is not strictly j-and completely' independent regard~ ing the facts which are the object of his study.
Lo Drolt Chinois" is, however, a most interesting book comprising over 500 pages on the study of what is called Chinese Law, and must be con= sidered as a work far superior to Prof, Esearra's numerous and pre~ vious studies pertaining to the same matter, such 98 "La Chine of lo Drolt International" which contains many erroneous statements due probably 10 the fact that Prof. Esearra comes very seldom to China, There is no equivalent to the mean
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