American Consular Jurisdiction in the Orient |
Contents
| 1 | |
| 7 | |
| 10 | |
| 15 | |
| 29 | |
| 40 | |
| 51 | |
| 70 | |
| 137 | |
| 140 | |
| 146 | |
| 167 | |
| 176 | |
| 182 | |
| 185 | |
| 188 | |
| 76 | |
| 82 | |
| 88 | |
| 93 | |
| 100 | |
| 106 | |
| 112 | |
| 114 | |
| 118 | |
| 119 | |
| 125 | |
| 131 | |
| 192 | |
| 204 | |
| 215 | |
| 228 | |
| 235 | |
| 241 | |
| 250 | |
| 264 | |
| 270 | |
| 278 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
1st Sess Ameri American citizens American consular American minister appeal Appendix arrested Article Brit Britain British capitulations Chinese government civil claims commercial common law concessions Cong Constantinople consul consul-general consular courts consular jurisdiction consular officer coöperation court for China crimes criminal customs declared diction diplomatic domicil dragoman droit internat duties Egypt European execution exercise extraterritorial jurisdiction foreign jurisdiction France French granted issued Japan Japanese judge judgment juris justice Korea land legation leges legislation Levant Madagascar ment merchants missionaries Mixed Court municipal nationality native negotiations offenses opinion parties Peking permitted Persia person powers printed infra privileges protection punishment real estate real property regarded regulations relations residence respect rules Secretary settlement Shanghai ship Siam statutes stipulations subjects Sublime Porte sular Taiping rebellion Taotai taxes territory Tientsin tion treaties of 1858 trial tribunals Turkey Turkish government United States court usages
Popular passages
Page 53 - That all the before-mentioned courts of the United States shall have power to issue writs of scire facias, habeas corpus, and all other writs not specially provided for by statute, which may be necessary for the exercise of their respective jurisdictions, and agreeable to the principles and usages of law.
Page 198 - And if controversies arise between citizens of the United States and subjects of China, •which cannot be amicably settled otherwise, the same shall be examined and decided, conformably to justice and equity, by the public officers of the two nations acting in conjunction.
Page 192 - Western nations, and have declared that they are also "prepared to relinquish extraterritorial rights when satisfied that the state of the Chinese laws, the arrangements for their administration, and other considerations warrant...
Page 120 - Converts and nonconverts, being Chinese subjects, shall alike conform to the laws of China; and shall pay due respect to those in authority, living together in peace and amity; and the fact of being converts shall not protect them from the consequences of any...
Page 198 - All questions, in regard to rights whether of property or person, arising between citizens of the United States in China, shall be subject to the jurisdiction and regulated by the authorities of their own government. And all controversies occurring in China between citizens of the United States and the subjects of any other government, shall be regulated by the treaties existing between the United States and such governments, respectively, without interference on the part of China.
Page 66 - America," and not for countries outside of their limits. The guaranties it affords against accusation of capital or infamous crimes, except by indictment or presentment by a grand jury, and for an impartial trial by a jury when thus accused, apply only to citizens and others within the United States, or who are brought there for trial for alleged...
Page 149 - We adhere to the policy initiated by us in 1857 of peace with the Chinese nation, of furtherance of lawful commerce, and of protection of lives and property of our citizens by all means guaranteed under extraterritorial treaty rights and by the law of nations.
Page 149 - It is, of course, too early to forecast the means of attaining this last result; but the policy of the Government of the United States is to seek a solution which may bring about permanent safety and peace to China, preserve Chinese territorial and administrative entity, protect all rights guaranteed to friendly powers by treaty and international law, and safeguard for the world the principle of equal and impartial trade with all parts of the Chinese Empire.
Page 250 - Order, the civil and criminal jurisdiction aforesaid shall, as far as circumstances admit, be exercised upon the principles of and in conformity with the Common Law, the Rules of Equity, the Statute Law, and other Law for the time being in force in and for England...
Page 127 - Missionary societies of the United States shall be permitted to rent and to lease in perpetuity, as the property of such societies, buildings or lands in all parts of the Empire for missionary purposes and, after the title deeds have been found in order and duly stamped by the local authorities, to erect such suitable buildings as may be required for carrying on their good work, Article XV.