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This chapter argues that extraterritoriality brought the rule of law and, with it, justness to the treaty ports of China and Japan. Through the study of the judgements of Chief Justice Hornby of the British Supreme Court for China and Japan in two Shanghai non-British murder cases (R v. Mohammed and R v. Ketchil), the chapter explains that extraterritoriality established generality, certainty and equality of treatment for the Chinese as much as for the subjects of Her Britannic Majesty from all the Crown colonies in the treaty ports, such as the little-known Malays.
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Villalta Puig, G. (2018). Extraterritoriality and the Rule of Law in the Treaty Ports: The Malay Murder Trials of the British Supreme Court for China and Japan. In: Brunero, D., Villalta Puig, S. (eds) Life in Treaty Port China and Japan. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7368-7_7
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