Correspondence Respecting the Alleged Existence of Chinese Slavery in Hong Kong: Presented to Both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her MajestyG.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode, 1882 - 248 páginas |
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Acting Attorney Acting Colonial Secretary Acting Police Magistrate adoption Association blows brothel slavery brought buying and selling Canton Canton Province Chief Justice child China Proper Chinese gentlemen Chinese Society Committee concubinage concubines convicted criminal Criminal Calendar daughter defendant Despatch detaining domestic servitude E. J. EITEL EARL OF KIMBERLEY emigration Enclosure enforced English law evidence Excellency the Governor existence father female foreigners George Thomas Staunton Government Governor Sir guilty Hong Kong honour Inspector kidnapping Leung A-Tsit Lordship matter MINUTE October offence officers opinion Ordinance parents pater familias patria potestas Penal Code persons petition petitioners POPE HENNESSY practice prisoner's prosecute Protection of Women punishment purchase purposes of prostitution question received reference Registrar relations second prisoner sentence Signed Singapore Sir John Smale slave slavery in Hong social sold statement Supreme Court whilst wife woman women and children YUNG WING
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Página 7 - The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law, which preserves...
Página 50 - The movement of the progressive societies has been uniform in one respect. Through all its course it has been distinguished by the gradual dissolution of family dependency and the growth of individual obligation in its place. The individual is steadily substituted for the Family, as the unit of which civil laws take account...
Página 72 - The United States of America and the Emperor of China cordially recognize the inherent and inalienable right of man to change his home and allegiance, and also the mutual advantage of the free migration and emigration of their citizens and subjects, respectively, from the one country to the other, for purposes of curiosity, of trade, or as permanent residents.
Página 58 - The Secretary of State, to whom was referred the resolution of the House of Representatives...
Página 69 - Those females, however, with whom a marriage had not been completed, though adjusted by contract, shall not suffer under this law ; from the penalties of this law, exception shall also be made in favor of all such daughters of criminals as shall have been married into other families. The parents, grandparents, brothers, and...
Página 52 - that civil relation in which one man has absolute power over the life, fortune, and liberty of another,' the question arises, can such a position as that occupied by the Chinese slave be seriously called slavery, in the legal acceptation of the term, or is it not rather the position of a bond-servant than a slave that he occupies? To answer this question, it is necessary to define exactly who are...
Página 34 - Guardian, or other Person having the lawful Care or Charge of such Child of the Possession of such Child, or with Intent to steal any Article upon or about the Person of such Child, to whomsoever such Article may belong...
Página 71 - ... section cclv. of the penal code of China, as translated by Sir George Thomas Staunton, and inquiring ' whether the same correctly represents the law, and whether it is now understood to be in force in all or any part of the dominions of His Imperial Majesty,' was duly received, and I have the honor to say in reply that section cclv.
Página 67 - Deliberate intrigue with a married or unmarried woman shall be punished with 100 blows. Violation of a married or unmarried woman, that is to say, a rape, shall be punished with death by strangulation. An assault with an intent to commit a rape shall be punished with 100 blows, and perpetual banishment to the distance of 3000 Ice.
Página 43 - Parliament in 1783, but his career both in the House of Commons and in the House of Lords was in striking contrast with that at the bar.