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• Title:Delivering justice in Qing China : civil trials in the Magistrate's Court / by Linxia Liang.
  
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• Author/Creator:Liang, Linxia.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2007.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KNN1572 .L53 2007 (LC)
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Judicial process--China--History--18th century.
  Judicial process--China--History--19th century.
  Civil procedure--China--History--18th century.
  Civil procedure--China--History--19th century.
  
• Description:xv, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  
• Series:British Academy postdoctoral fellowship monograph.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-279) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780197263990 (hbk.)
  0197263992 (hbk.)
  
• Contents:Chronology of the Qing dynasty
  1. Introduction
  2. Submitting and receiving a complaint in minor matters
  3. magistrate's comments on receiving the complaint
  4. magistrate's actions in approaching a resolution
  5. Law and legislation on land, debt, and marriage
  6. Cases and judicial decisions concerning land
  7. Cases and judicial decisions concerning debt
  8. Cases and judicial decisions concerning marriage
  9. Other relevant matters concerning the resolution of land, debt, and marriage disputes
  10. Conclusion : delivering justice and the absence of litigation
  App. 1. Categories of the Imperial Shuntian Prefecture archive
  App. 2. Details of the category of Law and Lawsuits (juan 54-245)
  App. 3. Weights and measures
  App. 4. magistrate's yamen of Baodi county.