1 The Mixed Court of the Shanghai International Settlement (‘Mixed Court’) was a court that operated in Shanghai from 1864 to 1929, where a Chinese magistrate and foreign assessor ruled together on the bench in civil and criminal cases that involved Chinese residents of the Settlement as well as foreign residents who did not enjoy extraterritorial status in China. Initially a Chinese court run on an experimental basis, it gradually fell under the near complete domination of the Western Treaty Powers and became one of the most important legal institutions in...
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