Cheng F.T. The Chinese Supreme Court Decisions

Peking: The Supreme Court, 1920. — 116 p.In days of the old regime civil cases were decided more like by arbitration than by a judicial process; for, except the law of succession and marriage there was hardly any law to go by; while in criminal cases decisions could be based on analogy and the judge was even allowed to make punishable an act which in his opinion should not have been done, though it had not expressly been made an offence by law.