...Richard P. Tucker Environmental Law and Policy in India: Cases, Materials and Statutes . By Armin Rosencranz , Shyam Divan , and Martha L. Noble . Bombay : Tripathi Private Limited , 1991 . xxviii, 555 pp. $15.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992...

... of a reform movement which had been active during the four preceding years. The new statute appeared to consummate an effort to give the Republic of 1912 a truly democratic educational system. In reality however, this apparent victory of the reformers disguised a dilemma which was paralyzing their reform...

...W. Allyn Rickett Abstract A unique feature of traditional Chinese law was the provision by statute that an offender who voluntarily surrendered and confessed before discovery and who made full restitution was entitled to remsision of punishment. Offenders who physically harmed their victims...

...Robert E. Ward Abstract These recent years have brought to Japan an array of new political institutions and procedures. If judged by the contents of the statute books alone, there would appear to be small resemblance between the basic legal structure and concepts of the prewar Japanese state...

...Derk Bodde Tu-li ts'un-i ch'ung-k'an pen . (New Typeset Edition of the Tu-li ts'un-i or Concentration on Doubtful Matters While Perusing the Sub-statutes ). Compiled by Hsüeh Yün-sheng . Edited and punctuated by Huang Ching-chia . Chinese Materials and Research Aids Service Center Research...

...) toward the end of a lengthy career in a fifth-grade capital official (p. 50, pp. 57-58) the Ch'ing judiciary and posthumously pub- but does not explain the discrepancy. lished in Peking in 1905. In this work each THOMAS A. METZGER statute and sub-statute is followed by an in- University of California...

... the period of feudal control demonstrate the important status of women in that period. These statutes were not merely regulations on paper but reflected social reality” ( 1975 , 122). She continues, During the initial centuries of feudal society, [Vietnamese] women enjoyed freedom of movement and economic...

... name in at least the bibliography. One of the most challenging aspects of Qing legal studies is tracing the legislative history of the thousands of statutes (li). Due to the frequency with which they were revised and reshuffled (sometimes to the extent of mutual contradiction), it is easy to cite...

... It is probably not wrong to say that what has motivated many of these studies has been not so much the history of law itself, but the awareness that the history of law in action, as recorded in legal cases, provides important clues to social history. Even though China traditionally possessed a statute law...

...). The contemporary analysis focuses on five statutes of administrative law in the PRC (the Administrative Reconsideration Law, the Administrative Litigation Law, the Administrative Supervision Law, the Administrative Penalties Law, and the State Compensation Law) and two in Vietnam (the Law on Complaints...

... is, so far as I know, the first major study of a single area of internal Chinese law in the post-Mao period. They have collected and translated all the major statutes or proposed statutes in a single, rather narrow area environmental law and have added law review articles, newspaper articles, and other...

... table of contents (pp. 127-257) in which Huang lists every statute and sub-statute by number, page and title. Does the work have any demerits? Two require mention. First, neither it nor the original edition includes either Shen Chih-ch'i's 1715 commentary on the code or the various edicts, summaries...

...Marc Galanter Introduction to Modern Hindu Law . By J. Duncan M. Derrett . Bombay : Oxford University Press , 1963 . xciv, 653 , Index of Cases, Index of Statutes, Glossary, Index of Subjects. $7.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 360 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

... of a statute was clear and it was clearly applicable to the case, the Board of Punishments based its decision upon the code, as Morris has shown. However, whenever the statute could not be interpreted literally, the Board sought to determine the genuine meaning of the code as the basis for their decision...

... to be confirmed. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 1 These revisions are encompassed in the following statutes: Horei lensho (hereafter H.Z. ), Dajōkan Ordinance 117, 02 5, 1869 ; H.Z., Dajōkan Ordinance 203, Nov. 30, 1875; H.Z., Imperial Ordinance 17, July 22...

... English translation of Organic Law of National Government, dated October 4, 1928, is given in appendix E of Holcombe; see also Wei, 241. The entire body of organic statutes of 1928 with alternate pages of Chinese and French translation can be found in Jobez Robert , Organisation du gouvernement...

... statutes of administrative law in the PRC (the Administrative Reconsideration Law, the Administrative Litigation Law, the Administrative Supervision Law, the Administrative Penalties Law, and the State Compensation Law) and two in Vietnam (the Law on Complaints and Denunciations and the Ordinance...

... administration in PHILIPPINES (REPUBLIC) LAWS, STATUTES, ETC. La- the Philippines, by Agapito P. Cobacha and bor and tenancy law by Crisolito Pascual. Domingo O. Lucenario. Manila, Philippine Manila, Community Pubs., 1960. 456 p. law review [I960] 536 p. PHILIPPINES (REPUBLIC) LAWS, STATUTES, ETC. The CORTES...

... represent the pre-1956 law which is still applicable in Pakistan and Burma. The writing is intense, compressed and occasionally cryptic. Besides the massive Code and scores of statutes, the author cites approximately 2200 cases as stating the law as of early 1963. (This is less than half the number of cases...

...Hellmut Wilhelm 868 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES not to be done" and "violating imperial decrees," catch-all statutes which permitted the ultimate in judicial flexibility. Morris concludes that in spite of these provisions, instances of judicial whim were few and the penal procedure was generally...